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text: An Introduction to Data Reporting for Secondary Career and Technical Education Tuesday June 8, 2010 1 Overview of Today's Discussion • CCTCMIS - Who we are and what we do. • Secondary CTE data processing. • Perkins IV Reporting. • Recent Changes and Questions. • Getting involved and staying in touch. 2 We are the Bureau of Community College and Technical Centers Management Information Systems (CCTCMIS) 3 CCTCMIS Responsible for the collection and reporting of data from the Florida College System; District Postsecondary Career and Technical Education and Adult General Education; and District Secondary Career and Technical Education. 4 School Districts • Secondary Career and Technical Education as reported in Survey 5. • Postsecondary Career and Technical Education and Adult General Education as reported in Surveys F, W, S, G, and X. 5 School Districts Our staff: • Joan Roddenberry • Bruce Harrington • Christine Allen • April Card 6 What We Do •State and federally mandated reporting. •Reports for district review. •Ad hoc reports to various state agencies. •Implementation of necessary changes to data elements and formats. •Maintenance of the Data Base Handbooks. 7 Education Information and Accountability Services (EIAS) • EIAS is responsible for data base maintenance, data submission processing, etc. for the entire secondary system, including CTE. • Contact information at: http://www.fldoe.org/eias/ 8 Primary Uses of Your Secondary CTE Data • Federal Carl Perkins "S" Measures • Federal Civil Rights • Statewide program policy review • Legislative requests • OPPAGA studies • And many more! 9 Overview of Processing • Formats • Due Dates • Data Flow • Submission and Retrieval • Edits • Reports 10 Secondary Formats • Student Demographic • End of Year Status • Vocational Student Course • Vocational Teacher Course • Information can be found in the Secondary Vocational Student handbook: http://www.fldoe.org/arm/cctcmis/pubs/sec/0910hbk/0910hbk.asp 11 Additionally, we utilize data from: • EIAS formats – Exceptionality – Federal/State Indicator – Student Course – Survey 2 and Survey 3 Student Demographic • Florida Education and Training Placement Information Program (FETPIP) • Education Data Warehouse (EDW) 12 2009-10 Secondary Vocational Survey 5 Processing window: August 2 - September 3, 2010 Due date: August 6, 2010 Final Update/Amendment Date: February 28, 2011 Perkins/CCTCMIS Cutoff Date: In October, 2010, date TBA 13 2010-11 Secondary Vocational Survey 5 Processing window: August 1 - September 2, 2011 Due date: August 5, 2011 Final Update/Amendment Date: February 29, 2012 Perkins/CCTCMIS Cutoff Date: In October, 2011, date TBA 14 Why an October Cut-Off Date for CCTCMIS? October is the "end of the road" for Secondary Vocational data updates for use in Perkins and most CCTCMIS reports. • Federal Perkins December 31 deadline necessitates an October "snapshot". • The October snapshot is then the basis for most CCTCMIS reports except in special situations. 15 Data Flow – Initial Post • District posts initial data file to NWRDC • EIAS initiates processing automatically weekly • Error reports/files are created at NWRDC • All errors are reject errors – the records are not posted to the data base. • District downloads reports/files 16 Data Flow – Batch Update After reviewing reports, the district: • Corrects errors from initial post - then • Creates batches of corrected data • And uploads batch update file • Processing is automatic • Error reports/files are created at NWRDC • District downloads reports/files 17 Data Flow – Validations and Exceptions When the district has corrected all reject errors - • District requests validation reports • EIAS initiates processing upon request • District downloads reports for review 18 Data Flow – Validations and Exceptions If there are errors in the validation process, the data base must be corrected: • District corrects errors, uploads files to correct the data base - batch update processing again • EIAS automatically generates error reports 19 Initial Submissions & Batch Updates • Remember, processing is now weekly. • Initial must post before a batch update. 20 Input Datasets, Edit Reports and Output Datasets Secondary Vocational Appendix D: http://www.fldoe.org/eias/dataweb/database_0809/appd0809.pdf 21 The complete picture… Refer to the Information Database User's Manual for a detailed description of data flow, uploading, downloading and file handling at http://www.fldoe.org/eias/dataweb/manual_0809.asp 22 Reports • Edit Error Reports – Initial and Batch • Validation/Exception Reports • Survey 5 Perkins Report – job prep courses that earn an OCP 23 Edit Error Reports • Rejected means the record was not loaded to the data base • Initial - 20% errors ends processing and no records in that file load to the data base • In house testing - for more information see: http://www.fldoe.org/eias/dataweb/database_0809/chapter30809.pdf 24 Edit Error Reports • Run automatically. • Records in error are rejected and not posted to the database. • Remember – more than 20% errors on the initial suspends processing and no records post for that file. • 20 % rule does not apply to batch updates. 25 Validations/Exceptions • Both validations and exceptions are listed in one report. • Run only upon request. 26 Validations and Exceptions The data has passed the edits and posted to the data base, but the validations and exceptions are still important. 27 Exceptions • Represent an unexpected value, but not necessarily an error. • They are a useful tool in data analysis. 28 Validations If a student's data cannot pass the validations, we (CCTCMIS) cannot use that student's data for reporting purposes. 29 Edit Error and Validation/Exception Reports • List the error codes with definitions at the beginning of every report • List data for one format • List data at the student level • List multiple errors for each record • Provide a total of records rejected and records loaded by school on the report and online 30 Secondary Vocational Perkins Report • Emphasizes Perkins-related data elements. • Generated at the close of the Survey 5 window and again at the end of the October Update Window. • Generated and distributed by CCTCMIS. 31 Reviewing Reports from CCTCMIS Duplication – data can be duplicated across programs, schools, districts. Therefore, counts may vary due to the level of aggregation. 32 Perkins IV • All measures for Perkins IV are now reported • Perkins information may be obtained at: http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/perkins/ perkins_resources.asp 33 Perkins IV • Nearly all Secondary Perkins IV data will now be reported by the state to the federal government through EDFacts (formerly EDEN). • This change does not affect the way districts report the data to the state. 34 Secondary Perkins – Key Elements • Student Number • Exceptionality, Primary Identifier, Florida • Lunch Status • Sex • Vocational Single Parent • Race/Ethnicity • Vocational Academic • Vocational Program Code Disadvantaged • Vocational Completion • Limited English Proficient Point Code • Dual Enrollment Indicator • Diploma Type • Industry Certification • Certificate of Completion Identifier • Withdrawal Reason • Industry Certification Outcome 35 Perkins IV • Participant: A secondary student who has earned one or more credits in any career and technical education (CTE) program. 36 Perkins IV Participants are determined as follows: • The student participated in a secondary CTE program in the current year or any of the last three years as reported in the secondary vocational student course record, Survey 5 (CCTCMIS) AND • The student was found to have earned 1 credit in that program in the current or last three years (FETPIP) 37 Perkins IV • Concentrators: A secondary student who has earned three (3) or more credits in a single career and technical education program (CTE), or two (2) credits in a single CTE program, but only in those programs where 2 credit sequences at the secondary level are recognized by the State and/or its local eligible recipients. 38 Perkins IV Concentrators are: • The student participated in a secondary CTE program in the current or any of the last three years as reported in the secondary vocational student course record (CCTCMIS) AND • The student was found to have earned 3 or more credits in that program in the current or last three years (FETPIP) 39 Perkins IV Measures • 1S1 Academic Attainment – Reading/Language Arts • 1S2 Academic Attainment - Mathematics • 2S1 Secondary Technical Skills • 3S1 Secondary School Completion • 4S1 Student Graduation Rates • 5S1 Secondary Placement • 6S1 Nontraditional Enrollments • 6S2 Non-Traditional Completion 40 Key Resources • Edit and Validation Reports • Survey 5 Perkins Report • Data Base Handbooks http://www.fldoehub.org/CCTCMIS/secvoc/Pages/default.aspx • DOE Employee Phone List http://www.fldoe.org/department/staff.asp • Curriculum Frameworks http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/dwdframe/ 41 Secondary Industry Certification Reporting Three uses of Secondary Industry Certifications 1. Perkins Technical Skill Attainment 2. Bonus FTE for CAPE Academy Students 3. School Grades Industry certifications are reported for all three purposes on the vocational student course in Survey 5, but each has different requirements. Secondary Industry Certification for Perkins • The Industry Certification must be linked to a program. • Deadline TBA, sometime in the beginning of October. • Secondary Perkins Technical Skill Attainment Inventory: http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/perkins/ pdf/0910SecondInvent.pdf Secondary Industry Certification for CAPE Bonus FTE • Student must be a member of a certified CAPE Academy. • Certification must be linked to a CTE course. • Student must graduate in the reporting year. • Deadline: February 28 Secondary Industry Certification for CAPE Bonus FTE • Documentation of Industry Certification Identifiers with FTE eligibility information is available in Secondary Handbook Appendix Z: http://www.fldoe.org/eias/dataweb/database_0910/appendz.pdf • CAPE ACT Technical Assistance Paper: http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/pdf/CAPE-Act-TechAssist.pdf 45 Secondary Industry Certification for School Grades • Does not have to be linked to a CTE course. • However, these are still reported on the vocational student course schedule. • Report all zeroes for the program and course. • Deadline: ? Dual Enrolled Students Secondary students who are taking a postsecondary CTE course • Receive both postsecondary and secondary credit. • Reported in WDIS on the Vocational Student Course Record AND • Reported in secondary with the postsecondary number on the Student Course record. • Are NOT reported on the Secondary Vocational Student Course. 47 Co-Enrolled Students • Are secondary students taking adult high school classes. • Are not separated from K-12. • Must be reported in WDIS on the Adult General Education Student Course Schedule with a Vocational Program Code of 9900099. 48 Adult General Education Program Code 9900099 • New to 2009-10. • "Co-Enrolled General Education- Promotion". 49 Getting Involved and Staying In Touch! • The CCTCMIS Online Directory • What is a "Reports Coordinator" anyway? • The CCTCMIS SharePoint Hub • The Workforce Education District Data Advisory Committee (WEDDAC) • CCTCMIS Staff Contact Information 50 The CCTCMIS Online Directory – Is your contact information up- to-date? • Source of all district and college contact information for CCTCMIS. • Maintained by the district Reports Coordinator. • https://data.fldoe.org/ccdir/ What is a "Reports Coordinator"? • Primary contact at the district • Maintains the contact information in the Online Directory • Distributes reports and other communications as necessary 54 The CCTCMIS SharePoint Hub • The central point of communication for CCTCMIS. • Reports, announcements, discussion boards, handbooks, meeting information, contacts. • Includes a public site available to all, and a restricted site available only upon login. The Hub Main Page http://www.fldoehub.org/cctcmis/Pages/default.aspx WDIS Public Main Page Secondary Public Main Page After login to the Restricted Site . . . CCTCMIS Restricted Site Main Page Set up "Alerts" to be notified when updates are made. Don't forget to set your preferred options! The Restricted WDIS Main Page All Common Documents are for download only and can not be updated by the district. Set alerts here as well. Example of current documents folder. WEDDAC Workforce Education District Data Advisory Council • Meets approximately four times a year. • Includes both Secondary and Postsecondary CTE reporting. 67 Contacts • Bruce Harrington firstname.lastname@example.com 850/245-9520 • Christine Allen firstname.lastname@example.com 850/245-9514 • April Card firstname.lastname@example.com 850/245-9518 68

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Following a training camp and preseason that most everyone deemed to be successful, Arizona Cardinals rookie Tyrann Mathieu is now set to embark on his first NFL season.
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Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood. Vintage (purchase at Amazon.ca)
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Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, winner of a Canadian Governor General's award for non-fiction, is a very Jamaican book. That it is so Jamaican indicates (he rcin.irkablc ability of Canada and of Canadian Literature to absorb writers and their work from what would at first seem to be disparate countries and cultures. The literary landscape of Canada has certainly been made richer and more varied by the work of writers, to name only a few, such as Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, Cecil Foster, and Neil Bissoondath from the West Indies, and of Rohinton Mistry, Shyam Selvadurai, and M. G. Vassanji from Asia and Africa. To this list must be added the name of Rachel Manley, who now lives in Toronto.
The Manley surname is central to the political and cultural history of modern Jamaica. Rachel's grandfather, Norman Manley, a leader in Jamaica's struggle for adult suffrage and responsible government, was eventually elected the island's first Chief Minister, a title changed to Premier during the brief life of the West Indian Federation. On his defeat by his cousin Alexander Bustamante in a general election, he became the Leader of the Opposition in independent Jamaica's first Parliament. Rachel's grandmother, Edna Manley, was for many years Jamaica's outstanding artist, and her works of sculpture continue to this day to celebrate the island's history and culture. Their son Michael, the father of Rachel, became Prime Minister of Jamaica, though not in the period covered by this memoir.
Drumblair, Rachel's memoir, commences in 1949 when at the age of two and a half she arrives in Jamaica to live with her grandparents, and ends on the 2nd of September 1969 when her grandfather, Norman, dies. That she was raised by her grandparents—she was not to see her mother in England for many years, and even after her father returned home she did not live with him—connects her with the experiences of countless Jamaican children known in Canada as "barrel children," a phrase used to suggest their material if tenuous connection with their parents overseas. Though not from a poor family, Rachel shares something of the sense of upheaval of these children.
Drumblair focusses on Jamaica's first family at a crucial period in this island's history. One might therefore expect the narrative to be essentially political. This, however, is not the case. Instead we get a personal and intimate account of a family as a whole trying to cope with problems and issues which are not only of personal significance but often also of national importance. The account of the family is given in the first person by someone who, although a mature woman at the time of writing, manages to combine the objective perspective made possible by the distance of time with the more subjective and impulsive account of the small child who lives through the incidents. The portrait of Rachel that emerges is of a bright, sensitive, selfwilled, sometimes troubled child trying to come to terms with a world that is often confusing but always beguiling and fascinating. The naive accounts of political meetings at the house attended by prominent politicians from Jamaica and the other West Indian territories, meetings memorable to her because she can partake of the refreshments prepared for the important visitors, are eventually replaced by disturbed accounts of her experiences at university where fellow students, who see themselves as revolutionaries, make her embarrassed that she is not black and that her name is Manley. They belittle her grandfather's considerable political achievements as colonialist and even Uncle Tomish. She finds herself torn between her desire to identify with this fashionable group on campus and her urge to be loyal to her grandfather. The depiction of her grandfather and his family in this memoir leaves no room for doubt about where her loyalty should lie, but the anguish of the young Rachel is real just the same.
But Drumblair is no bildungsroman. The character of the narrator is important not just for itself, but for the intimate perspective it provides on the lives of Norman and Edna Manley, and, to a lesser extent, that of Michael Manley. Also important are the sketches of numerous minor characters, the most engaging of whom are the servants— Edith, Zethilda, Batiste —vivid in her memory because of their closeness to the domestic life of the family. They provide glimpses into the attitudes and thoughts of the Jamaican folk, suggesting the personality of the electorate in which Norman and Michael Manley worked.
Rachel Manley does not hesitate to use the device of the omniscient narrator which permits her to enter the minds and emotions of her characters, though she is not writing a novel. She uses this method most often with Edna Manley, whose artistic temperament she strives to convey. For instance, she attributes the following sentiments to Edna: " No, we will not give them our food and we will not give them our leader, Mardi [Rachel's name for her grandmother] echoed in the recess of her mind."
Neither a novel nor pure autobiography or biography, the narrative is instead a memoir, a composite of these genres, and Rachel Manley uses Drumblair, the family home of the Manleys, as the setting where these various styles intersect and connect. Drumblair is like a quilt in which the pieces—the narrator, her father, her grandparents, the family retainers, and even the dog Wog—come together to form an intricate, elaborate, and colourful pattern. Each piece fits into its appropriate place, and no piece is expendable.
In accomplishing this effect, Rachel Manley proves herself an expert "manager of narrative," to borrow a term V. S. Naipaul uses to describe his function as a writer. The family's departure from Drumblair, the description of the razing of the house, and the account of Norman Manley's death become metaphors for the passing of an era in Jamaican history. Similarly metaphorical for the emerging Jamaica is the somewhat confused and unsure condition of the narrator at the end. These effects are all achieved in a lucid, perceptive, and sensitive language, the rhythms of which can do much to convey the essence of Jamaica to readers in Canada and elsewhere.
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SALT LAKE CITY — EnergySolutions Inc. and a number of its investors have reached a $26 million settlement in federal court.
The settlement agreement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is still awaiting approval from a judge. The original complaint against the Utah-based company was filed in 2009 and alleged violation of federal securities laws.
Investors, including the City of Roseville Retirement System, Building Trades United Pension Trust Fund and New England Carpenters Guaranteed Annuity and Pension Funds, sued EnergySolutions, as well as various investment firms, claiming that company officials lied about future business prospects and that the financial firms helped the company draft and disseminate their prospectuses.
The shareholders claim that EnergySolutions "issued materially false and misleading statements" about business prospects around its July 2008 initial public offering, including revenue and earnings potential and the company's ability to "obtain a favorable ruling" from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on a pending petition.
The plaintiffs allege that two months after the public offering, EnergySolutions revealed that the petition had been denied and its projected earnings and revenue numbers "would need to be significantly reduced," prompting the value of the company's stock to fall 44 percent.
"The decline in the price of EnergySolutions' common stock after the disclosures came to light was a direct result of the nature and extent of (the company's) fraud finally being revealed to investors and the market," the federal complaint states.
The investors were asking for damages, that the public offering be rescinded and that EnergySolutions pay for litigation costs. According to the settlement agreement, both parties took part in mediation sessions and eventually agreed on the settlement, despite the fact that "(EnergySolutions and the other defendants) have denied and continue to deny that they have violated the federal securities laws or any laws.
"Nonetheless, taking into account the uncertainty, risks and costs inherent in any litigation, especially in complex cases such as this (complaint), defendants have concluded that further conduct of the action could be protracted and distracting," the settlement agreement states. "Defendants have, therefore, determined that it is desirable and beneficial to them that the action be settled in the manner and upon the terms and conditions set forth in this stipulation."
The investors filed a memorandum in support of the settlement agreement Tuesday. It is not immediately clear when or if the assigned judge will approve the agreement.
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* CreatorBacklash: Dixon is [[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2014/04/04/an-interview-with-dougal-dixon/ not particularly fond]] of the final version of the book, possibly because he originally wanted the book to have a completely different plot (see What Could Have Been below).
* InferredHolocaust: While not visually shown, after all the massive time and energy used to create these species, the last remnants of altered/evolved humans were abandoned on a somewhat dying Earth to die a slow and somewhat painful death by suffocating and starvation with no way to save themselves simply because they were not built with the general intelligence to do so. It can be considered somewhat of a TearJerker as well.
* MemeticMutation: The Tundra Dweller page has found some internet fame after being turned into [[http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v624/fenchurch/blargh/Lets%20Read%20After%20Man/?action=view¤t=original.jpg a demented "Seasons Greetings" card]]. The Hunter Symbionts have found similar internet mockery.
* NightmareFuel: Mainly in the books' highly detailed illustrations of evolved and genetically altered human/animal species. One notable species is called the Tic; a human with an ''organic'' version of the cybernetic cradle the Hiteks get around in. They're completely dessicated humanoids whose organs are constantly failing, so they replaced them with artificially grown organs. It was simply more convenient to grow entire organic exoskeletons. They are not a separate species from the Hitek, their technology is simply more advanced. In addition, many of the creatures appear as if someone needs to call in [[{{Halo}} Master Chief]] and have the whole planet nuked from orbit.
** It also ends with the descendants of Humanity returning to Earth, which is populated by the various descendents of genetically modified humans. So what do they do? They annihilate the vast majority of Earth's ecosystem, with the remaining creatures engineered to fit their needs, including a gargantuan[[LetsMeetTheMeat "meat creature"]] with no recognizable head or limbs. In the end, they destroy all surface life on Earth [[spoiler: except for the descendents of the humans engineered to live in the ocean, which colonize the deepest parts of the ocean. [[AWorldHalfFull It is implied that those deep-sea dwelling "humans" will eventually recolonize Earth's surface.]]]]
* ScienceMarchesOn: For starters, the species Dixon notes as the first human, ''Ramapithecus'', was later found to actually be an earlier-discovered species called ''Sivapithecus'', an early relative of the orangutan, not humans. Oops. Still, his description of an early proto-human still holds water.
* UncannyValley : So much it hurts.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The book was originally supposed to be a direct sequel to ''AfterMan'' involving human time travelers colonizing the book's far-future NewEden and killing everything, but this was changed due to ExecutiveMeddling. Dixon himself actually had very little to do with the final product apart from lending it name recognition.