New York State Education Department Special Education School District Data Profile

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New York State Education DepartmentSpecial
Education School District Data Profile

• Posted at http//eservices.nysed.gov/sepubrep/
• Questions contact Inni Barone at
  ibarone_at_mail.nysed.gov or [phone]

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• Considerations
• Developed with stakeholder involvement
• Reviewed some other States websites for ideas
• General statement to the public, Since
  performance of a school district in any
• indicator may be the result of unique
  circumstances within a district, readers are
• encouraged to consider information provided by
  the district's administration in
• interpreting these data.
• Context is provided regarding size of school
  district (special education
• classification rate and number of preschool
  children with disabilities).
• Every indicator has numbers, percentages and
  description of calculation.
• Trend data are provided for some indicators for
  which annual data are available
• (classification rate, graduation rate, dropout
  rate, suspension rate and LRE rates for
• school age students).

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• Characteristics
• Developed with in-house resources of IT staff
  using Java and PL/SQL, JDeveloper
• 10.1.3,JFreeChart (for graphs) and Oracle 10g
  databases.
• Data are drawn from various Oracle databases and
  some data are updated
• continuously, such as date the district
  reported correction of non-compliance on
• indicators 9, 10A, 10B and 13).
• Links to school and district report cards,
  parent page for definition of NCLB terms,
• SPP and APRs for additional information on the
  indicators
• Maintain reports and links to past years (i.e.,
  2007-08 report has
• links to 2006-07 and 2005-06 district
  reports).
• NYS collects data annually from a
  representative sample of school districts
• for SPP Indicators 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and
  14. The links to the past year reports
• are necessary to publicly report data
  from all school districts on all
• indicators over the six year SPP cycle.

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• Other Public Reports
• Child count by disability and age range -
  Statewide summaries and district totals
• Preschool child count by county
• School age LRE data in fiscal supplement to
  school district report card
• School and district report card accountability
  overview
• School and district report card comprehensive
  information report
• Planned Enhancements/Revisions
• Make required revisions as Indicator measures
  are revised.
• Develop a database of results for the public
  there are many requests for publicly
• reported data in an Excel or Access file
  format.
• This will include numbers and percents
• This will also include Statewide and other
  aggregations on all indicators