PLACEMENT REPORTING OVERVIEW 


Policy Citations 

Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 Section 113(b)(4)(C)(iiv) 
requires local education agencies receiving funding to report disaggregated 
enrollment and performance data to the state/eligible agency. 

Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 Sections 113(4)(c) 

requires eligible recipients to report prepare and submit data regarding the progress of 
such recipient in achieving the performance levels of core indicators. 

Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 Section 122(c)(13)The 
state agency must ensure that the data reported from local agencies are complete, 
accurate, and reliable. 

Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 Sections 134(b)(6) 

“…support Career and Technical Education programs that provide services and 
activities that are of sufficient size, scope and quality to bring about improvement…” 

July 1, 2008 Arizona Five Year State Plan for the Carl D. Perkins Career and 
Technical Education Act of 2006 page 101 states that the secondary Concentrators 
who are enrolled in postsecondary education, employed and/or serving in the military 
will be surveyed during the second quarter (October- December) following graduation in 
that reporting year. 

EDGAR 34 CFR 80.40 requires that states monitor and report program performance. 

Annual Arizona Appropriation Bill describes the intention of the Arizona legislature to 
fund the Career and Technical Education State Block Grant. This funding occurs 
through general appropriations for supplemental funding linked to numbers of pupils in 
such programs and to numbers of program Concentrators who enter jobs in fields 
directly related to their high school CTE program. 

Basic Grant Affirmation Affidavit Program and Fiscal Assurance Number 5: 

Eligible recipients will cooperate and participate with the eligible agency including 
compliance with timely and complete, accurate, and reliable data collections activities, 
monitoring, and reporting requirements. 

Basic Grant Affirmation Affidavit Accountability Assurances: Failure by the LEA to 
make a good faith effort … to submit accurate data reports on a timely basis or will risk 
an interruption or possible loss of all Career and Technical funding (State and Federal). 

The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV) 
emphasizes state and local accountability. It establishes comparable student definitions 
and measurements for all CTE programs. Perkins IV legislation is based on 
expectations that student performance will improve each year. This improvement is 
expected in five core areas of emphasis, including: 

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! Academic attainment 
! Technical skill attainment 
! Graduation rate 
! Placement rate and 
! Participation and completion of nontraditional programs 
The State Board of Education approved a state accountability system that measures 
CTE program performance using a series of performance measures. The performance 
measures are based on the expectation that all programs have Concentrators and 
Placements on an annual basis. This expectation is derived from the 2006 Perkins IV 
Section 134(b)(6) that a program be “of sufficient size, scope and quality to bring about 
improvement”. 
The Arizona CTE performance measures are published annually in the Secondary 
Guidelines for Performance Measures and Program Evaluation at 
http://www.ade.az.gov/cte/DIG/. The expected performance level for each measure is 
negotiated annually with the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). 
This section of the Handbook is designed to help schools and districts: 
! Collect and organize Placement data and 
! Report Placement records 
All CTE Placement reporting is submitted electronically. There are two methods 
of electronic submission including: 
! Email attachment to CTEDataCollection@azed.gov (file attachment must be in 
ASCII text format: 
http://www.ade.az.gov/cte/GrantsMIS/filelayout/CTEPlacement.asp 
! Online Data Collection website: http://www.ade.az.gov/PerfMeasures/splash.asp 
The online system requires a district to Login with a unique CTE-assigned UserID and 
Password to the Performance Measures system. The online data collection can be used to 
enter course enrollment, program enrollment, student Concentrator and student 
Placement data. Online user manuals for Placement survey submissions are located at: 
http://www.ade.az.gov/cte/DIG/. 
If you have questions, please contact the CTE Development and Innovations 
Section for assistance: 
Secondary Accountability Specialist Penny Legge (602) 364-2470 
Or contact the CTE Grants Management Information Systems Section: 
Information Technology Specialist Donna Kerwin (602) 542-7881 
Education Program Specialist Steve Saline (602) 542-5566 
Administrative Services Officer Jet Wilson (602) 542-5486 
Enrollment Specialist Della Hofer (602) 542-5711