Coding, Counting, and Collecting: It’s A Numbers Thing

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent“Making Education Work for All Georgians”www.gadoe.org

Coding, Counting, and Collecting: Coding, Counting, and Collecting: It’s A Numbers ThingIt’s A Numbers Thing

Data Conference August 17-19, 2011

Deon Quinn, Operations AnalystOutreach Programs Division

School Improvement

Denise JohnstonHomeless Liaison

Paulding County School District

Carolyn OliverStudent Information Systems Coordinator

Paulding County School District


ContentContent

• McKinney-Vento Act

• Homeless Education Data Collection

• Local Education Agency (LEA) Responsibility

• Paulding County Presenters

• Questions


McKinney-Vento ActMcKinney-Vento Act


McKinney-Vento ActMcKinney-Vento ActProgram Purpose

• Ensure homeless children and youth (HCY) have equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including public preschool education, as provided to other children and youth

• Ensure access to education and other services needed to ensure that HCY have an opportunity to meet the same challenging State student academic achievement standards to which all students are held

• Facilitate the enrollment, attendance, and success in school of HCY

• Review and revise laws, regulations, practices, and policies that may act as barriers to the enrollment, attendance, and success in school of HCY


McKinney-Vento ActMcKinney-Vento ActDefinition of Homeless Students

• Individuals whose nighttime residence is NOT:

Fixed—stationary, permanent, and not subject to change

Regular—used on a predictable, routine, or consistent basis

Adequate—sufficient for meeting both the physical and psychological needs typically met in the home

(42 U.S.C.§11434A(2)(B)(i))

Can the student go to the SAME PLACE (fixed) EVERY NIGHT (regular) to sleep in a SAFE AND SUFFICIENT SPACE (adequate)?


Homeless Education Data Collection


• State of Georgia FY11 Data 31,391 homeless children and youth reported Up 14.83% from FY10 41 Georgia LEAs reporting no homeless students

• FY10 Data Collection Summary report

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Homeless Education Homeless Education Data CollectionData Collection



• The United States Department of Education (US ED) allocates funds to states through a formula based on each State’s share of Title I grants to LEAs (which are largely based on counts of children living in poverty)



• US ED conducts an annual federal data collection that includes State and LEA data

• Data must be viable and school based

• Types of data collectedPerformance measuresHomeless student’s residenceSupport services receivedBarriers


LEA ResponsibilitiesLEA Responsibilities


• Homeless Liaison works with LEA Student Information System (SIS) specialist to ensure that the system includes fields for accurate reporting of required data

• Homeless Liaison assists LEA SIS specialist with training and disseminating information to appropriate personnel in schools



Data Collection

• ENVIRONMENT CODE indicates the type of residential environment in which a student resides or the type of school the student attended at anytime during this school year at this school. Code only those students for whom one of the codes below apply. For students where codes do not apply, leave blank.

• *** Used to apply only to Title I students – now applies to ALL students. ***• Data Element ID: STU045• Layout ID: C045

Environment Code Description

1 Resides in a local institution for neglected

2 Resides in a local institution for delinquent

3 Homeless

4 Unaccompanied Homeless Youth



Primary Nighttime Residence

• Shelters Transitional housing, Awaiting Foster Care

• Doubled-up Living with another family

• Unsheltered Cars, Parks, Campgrounds, Abandoned buildings, Temporary

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• Hotels/Motels• There is no “Other” category



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Paulding County

Presenters


Questions

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Documents

Coding, Counting, and Collecting: It’s A Numbers Thing