1. Support and Assistance in High School Verification and CTE Reporting July 6, 2011

2. Goals for the morning High School Verification Increase your understanding of High School Accountability Increase your understanding of High School Accountability Learn about the various nySTART/Level 2 reports and justify need for verification Learn about the various nySTART/Level 2 reports and justify need for verification Utilize a tool to better verify the High School Accountability Verification reports Utilize a tool to better verify the High School Accountability Verification reports

3. Grounding Name, position, district & work location Why I am here My verification team A question I have regarding verification Whether or not attended last year Expectations

4. Data Information Flow Special Education System/ Intervention Tracking System Regional Data Warehouse – Level 1 Statewide Repository – Level 2 State Educ. Dept. Food Service Package Non-SIS Student Management System COGNOS Level One nySTART PD System Portal COGNOS Level 2 reports NYS School Report Cards Federal Reports SIS Level 0

5. Data Refresh Cycle Wednesday Special Education data pulled & sent to Data Warehouse Thursday Level 0 and SIS data sent to Data Warehouse (due by 7am) Friday All files sent to Level 1 container & then moved to Level 2 over weekend Monday Data available for viewing in COGNOS Level 1 reports Tuesday Data visible in Level 2/NYSTART Wednesday Data visible in PD System

6. Secondary-Level Accountability and Graduation-Rate (Total) Cohorts

7. Guide to Accountability Cohorts High schools are accountable for three areas:  English and mathematics performance;  English and mathematics participation; and  graduation rate. A different group of students is measured in each of these areas. The cohort used to measure English and mathematics performance was redefined beginning with the 2002 cohort; the cohort used to measure graduation rate was redefined beginning with the 2003 cohort.

8. 2010-11 High School Accountability

9. Data Warehouse and Test Scoring Department contacts Don DeJohn, Data Warehouse Manager 315.433.2217, ddejohn@cnyric.org Lori DeForest, Supervisor of Data Analysis Services 315.433.2247, ldeforest@cnyric.org Larry Hunt, District Data Coordinator 315.433.2295, lhunt@cnyric.org ddejohn@cnyric.orgldeforest@cnyric.orglhunt@cnyric.orgddejohn@cnyric.orgldeforest@cnyric.orglhunt@cnyric.org