FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
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Jeanine Blomberg
Commissioner of Education
T. WILLARD FAIR,
Chairman
Members
DONNA G. CALLAWAY
DR. AKSHAY DESAI
ROBERTO MARTÍNEZ
PHOEBE RAULERSON
KATHLEEN SHANAHAN
LINDA K. TAYLOR
October 18, 2007
MEMORANDUM #07-29
TO:
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District School Superintendents
FROM:
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Shan Goff, Executive Director, Office of Early Learning
Florida Department of Education
Brittany Birken, Interim Deputy Director, Office of Early Learning
Agency for Workforce Innovation
SUBJECT:
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Teenage Parent Program Reporting Procedures and Dates for Fiscal Year 2007-08
The Florida Department of Education and the Agency for Workforce Innovation would like to
thank all parties involved in working together to report matching funds for federal dollars. As a
result, more of Florida’s children received school readiness services. We are again requesting
your assistance in collecting the necessary data on the participants in your Teenage Parent
Program (TAPP) in order to continue using these state funds as a match for federal dollars for
2007-08.
For those of you familiar with reporting participants in TAPP, the method of data collection and
reporting has not changed. Attached you will find a copy of the Supplemental Information Form
and corresponding instructions to complete this form. The reporting deadlines for submitting the
supplemental information forms are:
Reporting Period
Due Date
Quarter 4 (July 1, 2007 – September 30, 2007)
December 10, 2007
Quarter 1 (October 31, 2007 - December 31, 2008)
January 10, 2008
Quarter 2 (January 1, 2008 – March 31, 2008)
April 10, 2008
Quarter 3 (April 1, 2008 – June 30, 2008)
July 10, 2008
We request your cooperation in using the following procedures to report the information on the
children of teenage parents.
325 W. GAINES STREET • TALLAHASSEE, FL 32399-0400 • (850) 245-0505 • www.fldoe.org
District School Superintendents
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School districts that contract for child care services for the children of teenage parents
through their local early learning coalition or other entities (e.g. Early Head Start) and school
districts that directly provide child care for this population can submit the Supplemental
Information Form.
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Supplemental Information Forms should be completed at the beginning of each new school
year.
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Unless there is a change in the child’s information during the current school year
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Supplemental Information Forms
DO NOT
need to be completed each quarter once the
child has been entered into the School Readiness Data System by the coalition or its
designee for the current school year. Children reported in the first quarter will continue to be
counted for each reporting period unless there is a form to reflect a change in status, such
as withdrawal from the program.
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Completed Supplemental Information Forms are forwarded by the school district to the early
learning coalition or the coalition’s designee.
Please do not send these forms to either
the Department of Education or the Agency for Workforce Innovation/Office of Early
Learning.
To obtain contact information for your local early learning coalition, please
access through http://www.flready.org.
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The early learning coalition will return to the school district a printout of the information on
the Supplemental Information Form after it has been entered into the Enhanced Field
System (EFS) for the district to keep as confirmation that the information was received and
recorded. Please notify the early learning coalition of any incorrect information on the
confirmation receipt.
If your school district is currently using the funds generated by the children of teenage parents
as a match for other federal funds (e.g. Head Start, Even Start), please disregard this request.
However, please contact the early learning coalition and the Agency for Workforce Innovation,
Office of Early Learning at 850/921-3180 so records can be updated accordingly.
Thank you for your cooperation concerning this matter. If you have questions concerning
reporting, please contact Brian Savon or Marlin Seay, Agency for Workforce Innovation/Office of
Early Learning, at 850/921-3180 or via electronic mail at Brian.Savon@flaawi.com or
Marlin.Seay@flaawi.com. For programmatic questions, you may contact the Department of
Education, Office of Early Learning at 850/245-0445 or via electronic mail at
earlylearning@fldoe.org.
SG/BB/epb
Attachments:
Supplemental Information Form and Instructions
cc:
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Dropout
Prevention
Coordinators
Brian
Savon
Executive Directors, Early Learning Coalitions
Marlin Seay
School
District
Finance
Officers Michele
DiMonaco
Early Learning Coalition Board Members
