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FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

  

CHARLIE CRIST

Commissioner

BERNARDO A. GARCIA, CHIEF

BUREAU OF EQUITY, SAFETY

AND SCHOOL SUPPORT

MEMORANDUM

TO:

District Title I Migrant Coordinators

FROM:

Stephen P. Best

DATE:

August 19, 2002

SUBJECT: FISCAL YEAR 2001-02 MIGRANT CHILD COUNTS

Attached is the Florida Migrant Child Reporting Matrix for the 2001/02 fiscal year. Please complete this

form using counts obtained directly from the current Certificates of Eligibility (COE) on file at your location.

This survey will be used for comparison to the data submitted by your districts in Survey 5, and will be

part of the confirmation process to assure the accuracy of this year’s count.

As discussed in the memorandum of May 28, 2002,

New ‘Migrant Status Term’ Data Element,

the

regular and summer term counts submitted to the United State Department of Education (USDOE) will be

derived from the new ‘Migrant Status Term’ element reported in Survey 5 this August. If you have any

questions about this process, please contact us immediately. The Florida Migrant Child Reporting Matrix

will be used as a check against this new element, ensuring its accuracy and reconciling it to the

information on file on the COE.

To ensure sufficient time to aggregate this data, compare it to the data submitted electronically, and

provide a sufficient window for corrections and updates, we are asking that you return the Matrix to us no

later than September 17, 2002. While we do need a signed original for our files, a faxed or emailed copy

will be acceptable for purposes of meeting this urgent deadline.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation in the matter. At the beginning of October 2002, we will be

returning to you a report showing the counts submitted on this form, those reported using the ‘Migrant

Status Term’ element, and the count obtained by the older methods of calculating the count from the

Survey 5 data. We will then work to reconcile those counts, make any necessary corrections, recapture

the updated data in November, and submit the count to the USDOE by December 1, 2002. Our goal is to

accurately account for every Migrant Child in our state – Let us get this right!

Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Stephen P. Best, (850) 921-3798,

stephen.best@fldoe.org or Angel Stanford, (850) 922-8952, angel.stanford@fldoe.org.

SB/AS/cdm

Attachment

cc: Bernardo Garcia Retha Nero Regional Program Directors

Rony Joseph Carolyn Mathews