[wyomingabe] Re: GED students enrolling in college Fall 07
- From: "Lana Hillstead" <lhillstead@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wyomingabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:14:41 -0600
Margaret,
Could you also let us know what you would like us to do with table
13...unintended outcomes after your summit on Sep 10th? We emailed LACES and
asked about this and they said each state needs to decide what they want in
this table.
Thanks
Lana
Lana Hillstead
Executive Director
Valley Learning Center
Bridger Valley Outreach WWCC
(307)-782-6401
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Sent: Wed 9/5/2007 10:44 AM
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Subject: [wyomingabe] Re: GED students enrolling in college Fall 07
Hi, Kathy,
I am attending the LACES Summit in Boulder on September 10. I will visit with
David regarding the drop down list of goals in LACES and the Family Income
Range. I just sent out Larry Condelli's answer to the question regarding the
student who sets the goal of postsecondary education in PY 06-07 and starts
college in the fall. Per Larry, as long as he starts college before 12/31/07
you can count him on table 5 for PY 06-07. After 12/31/07, he would be on
table 13.
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On Behalf Of Vincent Kathy
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:27 PM
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Cc: Shelly Andrews; Ed Boenisch; James O. Rose; Cottenoir Jeanie
Subject: [wyomingabe] GED students enrolling in college Fall 07
Hi Margaret,
Since Sept. 30th is looming in the very near future, Jeanie and I have been
discussing LACES, the Federal Tables and students that attended our program in
2006-07 and had "placement in post secondary educ or training" as a goal. Our
discussion brought to mind the last training for LACES in Casper in June when
Shannon Stangis from LACES told us we could not count enrollment in college
classes this fall as completion of the goal of "placement in post secondary
educ or training" because the student would be completing a goal after the PY
year they were enrolled in our program. In other words, they were students in
PY 06-07 but completed their goal in PY 07-08. Shannon said that for these
students we instead had to mark the goal as "achieved." This would then
convert the goal to an "unintended outcome" which is tracked on Federal Table
13. We didn't think this was acceptable since we've been counting it as a goal
completion for many previous years and we believe you said you would check with
NRS/Larry Condelli to see if it was acceptable under NRS regulations for us
count this goal as a completion for PY 06-07. It would seem more logical to
have it show as a goal completion in the same program year rather than to have
students in one program year and their goal completion in another year. It's
always been my understanding that we want to stay away from "unintended
outcomes." It doesn't look good. It's unintended and your data is split
between two program years. Have you been able to contact Mr. Condelli in
regard to this?
Also, at the training it was noted there are a multitude of goals on the
drop-down list of goals in LACES. Too many to be exact. It was noted that
during the migration there was confusion and LACES migrated not only goals but
also the AEM "reasons for enrolling" giving us a very long list of goals. Have
you had a chance to discuss this with David Miller and have you decided which
goals we as a state want to keep on LACES?
Also, there's the problem of the Family Income Range on LACES. We have always
placed students in an income range based on the Federal Poverty Tables which
are updated each year in February. The Family Income range numbers on LACES
are different than the numbers on the Federal Poverty Tables. Have you had a
chance to discuss this with David Miller and would LACES be willing to put in
the Federal Poverty Table income levels? And would they be willing to update
and/or possibly change the table each February? The number of low income
students is reported on Federal Table 6.
OK, I think that's it. Thanks for your help in these matters, Margaret.
Kathy
Kathy Vincent, Director
Adult Basic Education
Central Wyoming College
2660 Peck Avenue
Riverton, WY 82501
Ph. 307-855-2189 or 800-735-8418 ext. 2189
Fax 307-855-2019
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