Certified Employee/Certified Position
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Codebook

Law

511 IAC 6.1-1-4 Accreditation requirements
Authority: IC 20-19-2-8; IC 20-31-4-17
Affected: IC 20-20-8-3; IC 20-31-4-4; IC 20-31-4-7; IC 20-31-5; IC 20-32-5; IC 20-32-8
Sec. 4. A school must meet the following accreditation requirements to be accorded full accreditation status:
(1) Compliance with the following legal standards:
  (C) Staff-student ratio requirements listed under 511 IAC 6.1-4.
  (D) Curriculum offering requirements listed under 511 IAC 6.1-5 and 511 IAC 6.1-5.1.
  (E) Instructional staff requirements listed under 511 IAC 6.1-6.
  (H) Accurate and timely submission of all reports required of schools.

IC 20-20-8
     Chapter 8. School Corporation Annual Performance Report
IC 20-20-8-8
Report information
     Sec. 8. The report must include the following information:
            (5) Average class size.
          (9) The percentage of grade 8 students enrolled in algebra I.
            (15) The number and percentage of each of the following within the school corporation:
                 (A) Teachers who are certificated employees (as defined in IC 20-29-2-4).
                 (B) Teachers who teach the subject area for which the teacher is certified and holds a license.

ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION
Part A — Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies

Subpart 1 — Basic Program Requirements

SEC. 1111. STATE PLANS.

(h) REPORTS-
   (1) ANNUAL STATE REPORT CARD-
      (C) REQUIRED INFORMATION - The State shall include in its annual State report card—
             (viii) the professional qualifications of teachers in the State, the percentage of such teachers teaching with emergency or provisional credentials, and the percentage of classes in the State not taught by highly qualified teachers, in the aggregate and disaggregated by high-poverty compared to low-poverty schools which, for the purpose of this clause, means schools in the top quartile of poverty and the bottom quartile of poverty in the State.

Reference List
Additional Resources
The 2007-2008 Certified Employee/Certified Positions Report will be submitted by file transfer to the Application Center.  The data for 2006-2007 data will be updated where necessary and will be available in the Application Center to download under Administration > Retrieve Student Data.  
Please note:  In order to access the CE – CP download file from the Application Center, access must be assigned by those currently identified as “Corporate Maintenance User”.   The access that needs granted is “Employee Administration”.   Superintendents were notified of this on 9/28/2006 and they or their designee should be consulted before granting permission for Employee Administration as this collection contains sensitive data. 

Highly Qualified Teachers - http://www.doe.in.gov/hqt/welcome.html
Highly Qualified Definitions: http://www.doe.in.gov/hqt/docs/InHQTdefinitionsMay18FINAL.pdf

DOE Contact

Amy Hart at 317-232-0808 or ahart@doe.in.gov
Specific questions on HTQ should be directed to Jennifer Campbell at 317-232-9060.