I attended a meeting at COSERRC (our SERRC) on Thursday, June 22nd where Jo Hannah Ward from OEC presented the FY07 EMIS changes to the Special Ed folks.  Jo is directly under Tom Lather at OEC.  She was able to address two more areas of question/concern we had for ODE so I wanted to share the responses with you. LRE Drop Down - On PR07P2 Step 6, what values are appropriate in this area?  Is it okay to include % in the EMIS descriptors (no per Bill Sherabe to NCOCC users)? RESPONSE:  The LRE on the goal page is specific to that goal and its services.  For EMIS purposes, the Primary LRE is the percent of time overall, including all student goals.  At this time there is still debate on whether you can use percentages on the individual goal but would currently recommend narrative in this section.  Per Jo Hannah Ward at COSERRC meeting on 6/22/06.  Columbus SD advised they were found out of compliance for using percentages on the goal page.  Jo clarified that this decision was still under debate. REACTION:  LACA/Software Answers will make modifications to the form/software to move the Primary LRE field to the signature page as we are only reporting one for the student.  Then the LRE field on each goal page will be strictly text to allow for the narrative.  At this time, the primary LRE will be available to select but will not print or finalize with the form.  We will continue with this until we have approval from ODE to add this field to the form.  Reasoning for this move is that a student could have 3 goals in which they are in special education outside regular class for only 20% in each goal (EMIS code 210013).  However, these three goals combined would total 60% spec ed outside reg class which would be EMIS code 210014 (> 21%, < 60%).  With our current set up, the user would never be able to select the correct primary LRE and still have the goal page LRE correct. Data Type Codes - How should we be collecting the data not currently required for the data type codes?  Is proposed LACA form/procedure compliant with ODE's plan for the collection of this data? RESPONSE:  The Data Collection Form is optional.  We can cut/paste or us whatever format we choose as long as we use the same data elements.  Per Jo Hannah Ward at COSERRC meeting on 6/22/06. REACTION:  LACA/Software Answers will roll out the DATE TYPE CODE form for use in the software to record this information.  These form fields will also update our EMIS Data Collection form.