Career and Technical Education (CTE) Students
CTE Programs: Located in high schools and BOCES, Career and Technical Education programming provides academic and technical instruction in the content areas of agriculture, business and marketing, family and consumer sciences, health sciences, trade and technical education, and/or technology education. CTE programs are comprised of at least three CTE courses (equivalent to three full units of study) that together form a cohesive concentration and incorporate the Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Learning Standards. A list of CTE program service codes is found in Chapter 5: Codes and Descriptions.) CTE programs that are approved sequences used to fulfill diploma requirements also include the content of the one unit state-developed Career and Financial Management course.
CTE Students: CTE students are those enrolled in any course that can be a part of a CTE content area. A CTE course is taught by a CTE certified teacher where students learn content from one of New York’s 6 content areas (i.e., agriculture, business, family and consumer sciences, health sciences, technology education, or trade and technical education), and acquire technical skills through hands-on learning This includes students who are substituting a five-unit CTE sequence to fulfill the foreign language requirement for an advanced designation diploma. CTE students can be enrolled in:
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a local high school,
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a BOCES or technical/CTE high school,
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an alternative education and a CTE program,
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an approved High School Equivalency (HSE) program (AHSEPP) and a CTE program, or
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a CTE program in a nonpublic school that participates in data reporting via the SIRS.
Who Must Report CTE Students: The school district accountable for the student is responsible for reporting CTE data in SIRS for the student, even if the district’s students receive CTE at another program service provider (e.g., a BOCES). The agency that delivers the CTE course is the service provider. A school district offering CTE to its own students creates and maintains the CTE program service records and is the service provider. A school district that sends students to a BOCES for CTE creates and maintains the CTE program service records, which will document that the BOCES is the program service provider. Consequently, school districts report on all CTE students (i.e., those served in their own high schools as well as those sent to BOCES or other out-of-district providers, including another school district). Teacher-course linkage data must be reported by the service provider who employs the teacher or principal.
The CTE data collected in SIRS are governed by federal mandates, as some CTE programming receives federal funding from the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (Perkins). CTE reporting requirements are the same for all schools, whether or not they use Perkins funding directly.
Which Students Must Be Reported with CTE Records: Students enrolled in any career and technical education class who are also in a high school diploma-granting program or an approved High School Equivalency (HSE) program (i.e., AHSEPP) must be reported with a CTE program service record, which tracks CTE Program Type, CTE Program Intensity, Service Provider Location, courses taken by the student, and teacher linkage information:
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whether or not the CTE are federally funded,
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whether or not the CTE courses have been approved to allow the issuance of a Technical Endorsement,
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whether the CTE is offered by an LEA or BOCES.
Program Service Records: All students taking CTE have a CTE program service record created in the school year they first enroll in a CTE course. A student cannot have program service records without an active enrollment record.
Students generally take their CTE from one or two providers (i.e., their high school and/or BOCES). A single program service record is created if the student is taking CTE in a single location. If more than one content area is taken, create one record and use the program service code that describes where the student spends the most time.
CTE students enrolled in more than one location during the school year must be reported with a separate record for each program location. For example, two program service records are required for a student enrolled in business education in a high school and in computer information technology at a BOCES.
CTE programs at local high schools often cross content areas and may not be predefined or linear in nature. In the local high schools, programs are made up of a group of courses that form a cohesive concentration. These courses may be from one of the six CTE content areas or from a combination of these content areas. Since CTE students at local high schools build cohesive concentrations based on individual interests, the selection of a specific program service code (see Career and Technical Education Program Service Codes in Chapter 5: Codes and Descriptions) may prove more difficult than the selection of a code for CTE programs at a BOCES or Technical or CTE high schools. In this case, the local high school can use one of the following more broad-based program service codes: Agriculture (010599); Business and Marketing (529999); Family and Consumer Sciences (199999); Health Sciences (519999); Technology Education (151599); or Trade and Technical (489999). These reflect the six major CTE content areas. If a student is in career and technical education in two of these content areas, the code to be reported should be the one in which the majority of the student’s time is spent.
When a local agency is unable to determine the appropriate code, they should contact their Regional Information Center (RIC). A list of RIC contacts is available at http://www.p12.nysed.gov/irs/sirs/home.html. The RIC can contact the NYSED CTE Team at (518) 486-1547 or emsccte@nysed.gov for assistance.
CTE Beginning and Ending Program Service Records: If the student meets the district’s requirements for completing the program, use Reason for Ending Program Service code 646. If the student ends the program service without completing the program the year the student leaves or completes high school, use Reason for Ending Program Service code 663. If the student has not completed the CTE program by the end of the reporting year and program completion is still pending, leave Reason for Ending Program Service field blank. In the year the student leaves school, the entire enrollment record will show which Reason for Ending Program Service Code should be used in the final record. Districts determine how many and what combination of sequenced CTE courses are needed to achieve program completion. If the student’s concentration of CTE courses does not meet the district’s requirements, the Reason for Ending Program Service Code is 663 (left without completing), and the Level of Program Intensity is the level reached by the day the student discontinued the program.
CTE Program Type: All students who participate in a CTE must be reported in SIRS with CTE Program Type “CTE,” indicating the student is in career and technical education. See Chapter 4: Data Elements for CTE Program Type definition and location in the eScholar templates.
CTE Program Intensity: All students who participate in CTE must be reported in SIRS with a CTE Program Intensity: Enrollee, Participant, or Concentrator. See Chapter 4: Data Elements for CTE Program Intensity definition and location in the eScholar templates.
CTE Program Endorsement Indicator: A CTE Program Endorsement Indicator must also be reported in Programs Code Template, a Dimension Table populated by Level 1 operators, not by the reporting local educational agency. The endorsement indicator field tracks whether or not the specific program has been approved by NYSED to allow the issuance of a technical endorsement on the student’s high school diploma. Completion of the “New York State Regents CTE Approval Process” by individual CTE programs allows a school district to issue a Technical Endorsement on a student’s high school diploma when that student successfully completes all the requirements of the approved program. Programs must reapply for approval every five years. For more information about the approval process, see www.p12.nysed.gov/cte/ctepolicy/. A list of programs that hold current NYSED approval to issue technical endorsements can be found at: http://www.p12.nysed.gov/cte/ctepolicy/approved.html.
For more information on CTE, see http://www.p12.nysed.gov/cte/home.html.
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