DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT 

UPDATE: FY23 SEDD Exit Data and Discipline Data Collection (DDC) Reporting

We are happy to share that the SEDD issue documented previously has been resolved, and the SPED exit data is again viewable within the SEDD application.

Data can no longer be corrected in AzEDS. We are extending the Discipline Data Collection and SEDD exit reviews to Friday, July 21, 2023.

If there is a discrepancy in your data, please have the LEA Signer elaborate in the comments section during the Certification process that has also been extended to begin on Monday, July 24, 2023.

The SEDD due date for Preschool Transition data, Students without Disabilities data, and Certification will remain Wednesday, August 3, 2023.

Questions regarding these dates can be directed to ESS Data Management.

For immediate release: July 18, 2023
Contact: [email protected]
 

Horne: AG Opinion on dual language is politically charged
Vows court challenge

PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction and former Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne says the formal Opinion issued by current Attorney General Kris Mayes regarding the state’s Structured English Immersion law is ideologically driven.

Horne has reviewed the Opinion and is issuing the following detailed statement:

“It is surprising that the Attorney General evades the key issue, placing ideology over the law.

The Attorney General Opinion, in the second paragraph under background, recites that the voter passed, and voter protected initiative (Proposition 203) requires that English Language Learners be taught in English. A dual language program without waivers is an obvious violation of that to anybody who can read English. The Arizona Legislative Council reached that conclusion.

The Attorney General, for ideological reasons, wanted to rule in favor of the Democrat legislators who favor dual language. So, she refused to comment on whether a dual language program without waivers violates the voter protected initiative. She simply said that the State Board of Education has the power to adapt models under legislation. Neither the legislature nor the board has the power to overrule a voter approved initiative. Legislative Council found that dual language without a waiver does violate the initiative.

This will obviously be resolved in the courts. Until that happens, the State Board will not withhold funds. However, there are other remedies in the initiative for violation of its requirements. Any parent can sue a school or district that adopts dual language without waivers, and if the parent is successful, the school board, and the superintendent, and maybe the principal must leave office and cannot apply for their offices for five years. That will be a considerable incentive for school districts not to adopt dual language without waivers.”

We are aware of the inability of PEAs (and ESS) to access SPED exit data within the SEDD application. This is due to issues with the application date settings. We're working with our IT team to resolve this issue quickly.

An alert will be sent when the data is again available for review. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

Questions regarding this issue can be directed to ESS Data Management.

AzEDS Portal will be down for scheduled emergency maintenance on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, due to a necessary Microsoft update. The patch will take approximately three hours and will begin at 7am - 11am. The AzEDS IT Team will post updates if progress is delayed via ADEConnect Notification system (formally RedFlag). If you are not signed up to receive AzEDS Alerts, please subscribe here. We appreciate your patience.

Special Education Directors,

Please see the attached memo that clarifies that for federally required data collections regarding students with disabilities, the Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S.) § 15-117 provisions, which outline that informed consent to parents is necessary to administer a survey, do not apply.

If you have questions regarding the PSO Survey, please email the PSO Inbox: [email protected].

If you have questions regarding the Parent Involvement Survey, please email the Parent Survey Inbox: [email protected].

For immediate release: July 13, 2023
Contact: [email protected]
 

English immersion opponents make false claims

PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has issued the following statement in response to claims made by opponents of the state’s voter-approved English immersion law.

He states, “Presenting approximately 3,000 signatures opposing English immersion is not an impressive feat. In 2000, more than 925,000 Arizonans – 63 percent of voters – approved Proposition 203, making English immersion the law. I supported the proposition at the time and I am sworn to uphold that law now.

I want to emphasize that we have not eliminated the fourth alternative passed by the State Board. We are only requiring waivers that are required in the initiative that was passed by the voters, and that the State Board has never sought to eliminate. 

The statements about the benefits of dual language by the advocates are anecdotal and are clearly contradicted by the real-world data. 

I will give both historical and current data on this amount.

Before I took office the first time in 2003, when they had bilingual education, Lisa Graham Keegan reported to the legislature an English proficiency rate of 4%.  The English proficiency rates for structured English immersion, by contrast for the last four years when I was last Superintendent (2007-2010), were an average of 31% each for those years.  For current data, we looked up the English proficiency rates for dual language for the four schools we were able to locate who have had dual language for more than the last few years. 

Another key sentence from the voter passed initiative, A.R.S. §15-752 states, “All children in Arizona public schools shall be taught English by being taught in English and all children shall be placed in English language classrooms”.

All the attendees rated our first structured English class for teachers this summer as 5 on a scale of 1-5.

This is consistent with our experience between 2003 and 2011. Teachers arrived at the training hostile because of ideology they had been taught, but by the end of the course were giving the structured English immersion teachers a standing ovation, with consistently high evaluations.”

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DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT

-21002 and Operational Data Store (ODS) Updates

On 07/12/2023, an accountability integrity error -21002 affected student data reporting when it should not have. This high priority issued was addressed by our IT team and has now been resolved.

Last night, the replication process to our ODS failed, which means any changes made to student data yesterday, July 12, 2023, are not reflected in today’s data in the Special Education Data Dashboard (SEDD) application or the Discipline Data Collection (DDC) application.

Our IT team is aware and is working to ensure that the changes from 07/12/2023 and 07/13/2023 will sync properly and reflect accurately in the SEDD and DDC applications.

Please keep in mind that when the errors resolve themselves, you may receive an automated email alert asking you to re-review your SEDD Student Exit report.

We apologize for the inconvenience these issues are causing and appreciate your patience as we work through them.

Questions or concerns can be directed to ESS Data Management.

Register for the 2023 IDEA Conference in the Arizona Professional Learning and Development System (APLD). The professional conference registration fee is $470 per person and can be paid by credit card, check, or purchase order. Interested participants must have an ADE Connect account to complete the registration. To learn more about registration, please visit the IDEA Conference Registration webpage.

Book your hotel room before it’s too late! Consider taking advantage of what may be the last year to book a room at this guaranteed low rate of $103/night (not including taxes) for the nights of the conference (Sunday–Tuesday nights). To make your reservation, go to the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort’s conference website or call the Reservations Center at 1-888-236-2427. The last day to book a hotel room at the conference rate is August 2, 2023.

Exciting Announcements
ADE/ESS is excited to announce the conference’s Premier Speakers, including Carol Kosnitsky, Mike Marotta, Michael Stoehr, and more. Please see the Premier Speakers conference flyer to learn about these speakers and additional national presenters. Visit the National Presenters page to learn more about all national speakers, including the keynote speakers, Haben Girma, Art Cernosia, and Mickey Rowe.

Please see the Evening Events flyer for more information about the film Hearts of Glass, activities for youths/young adults, parents, and family members, and Tuesday’s networking reception and raffle drawing.

ESS appreciates this opportunity to learn with each of you and looks forward to this year’s conference. Stay informed by visiting the IDEA Conference website for conference updates. Questions can be emailed to the IDEA Conference inbox.

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT

Due Date Change for the Special Education Data Dashboard (SEDD) and the Discipline Data Collection (DDC) Applications

School Finance released this Hot Topic: Update to Statewide ADM Recalculation Date (7/17/2023).

The Important Dates website has been updated to reflect this change in the Special Education Data Dashboard (SEDD) for exit data and Discipline Data Collection (DDC) due dates to ensure consistency. The updated due date for this data is July 17, 2023, by 5:00 pm.

Questions regarding this change can be directed to ESS Data Management.

Registration for Arizona’s 2023 IDEA Conference: Creating Connections and Strengthening Systems is filling up quickly. To join us from August 21–23, 2023, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, please register on or before July 19, 2023.

Register for the 2023 IDEA Conference in the Arizona Professional Learning and Development System (APLD). The professional conference registration fee is $470 per person and can be paid by credit card, check, or purchase order. Interested participants must have an ADE Connect account to complete the registration. To learn more about registration, please visit the IDEA Conference Registration webpage.

Book your hotel room before it’s too late! Consider taking advantage of what may be the last year to book a room at this guaranteed low rate of $103/night (not including taxes) for the nights of the conference (Sunday–Tuesday nights). To make your reservation, go to the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort’s conference website or call the Reservations Center at 1-888-236-2427. The last day to book a hotel room at the conference rate is August 2, 2023.

Exciting Announcements
ADE/ESS is excited to announce the conference’s Premier Speakers, including Carol Kosnitsky, Mike Marotta, Michael Stoehr, and more. Please see the Premier Speakers conference flyer to learn about these speakers and additional national presenters. Visit the National Presenters page to learn more about all national speakers, including the keynote speakers, Haben Girma, Art Cernosia, and Mickey Rowe.

Please see the Evening Events flyer for more information about the film Hearts of Glass, activities for youths/young adults, parents, and family members, and Tuesday’s networking reception and raffle drawing.

ESS appreciates this opportunity to learn with each of you and looks forward to this year’s conference. Stay informed by visiting the IDEA Conference website for conference updates. Questions can be emailed to the IDEA Conference inbox.