2000 Florida Code
TITLE XVI EDUCATION
Chapter 239 Vocational, Adult, And Community Education  
PART II VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (ss. 239.201-239.251)
239.209   Career education; management information system.

1239.209  Career education; management information system.--

(1)  The commissioner shall coordinate uniform program structures, common definitions, and uniform management information systems for 2career education for all divisions within the department. In performing these functions, the commissioner shall designate deadlines after which data elements may not be changed for the coming fiscal or school year. School districts and community colleges shall be notified of data element changes at least 90 days prior to the start of the subsequent fiscal or school year. Such systems must provide for:

(a)  Individual student reporting.

(b)  Compliance with state and federal confidentiality requirements, except that the department shall have access to the unemployment insurance wage reports to collect and report placement information about former students. Such placement reports must not disclose the individual identities of former students.

(c)  Maximum use of automated technology and records in existing data bases and data systems. To the extent feasible, the Florida Information Resource Network shall be employed for this purpose.

(d)  Annual reports of student enrollment, completion, and placement by program.

(2)  The State Board of Education shall identify, by rule, the components to be included in the vocational management information system. All such components shall be comparable between school districts and community colleges.

(3)  Planning and evaluation of job-preparatory programs shall be based on standard sources of data and use standard occupational definitions and coding structures, including, but not limited to:

(a)  The Florida Occupational Information System;

(b)  The Florida Education and Training Placement Information Program;

(c)  The Department of Labor and Employment Security;

(d)  The United States Department of Labor; and

(e)  Other sources of data developed using statistically valid procedures.

History.--s. 13, ch. 92-136; s. 3(7), ch. 2000-321.

1Note.--Repealed January 7, 2003, by s. 3(7), ch. 2000-321, and shall be reviewed by the Legislature prior to that date.

2Note.--The term "career education" was substituted for the term "vocational education" by the editors pursuant to the directive of the Legislature in s. 16, ch. 94-232.