SIRS - p-12 - New York State Education Department

Appendix 9: Program Service Codes
Purpose: This data element must be collected for each student, if applicable, to fulfill the State
reporting requirements under NCLB
Entry Date: Date service began.
Exit Date: Not used.
Reason for Ending Code: Not used.
For more information about Title III, see http://www.p12.nysed.gov/biling/NEWTIII.html.
Title X - Part C: Homeless Education/McKinney-Vento — Code 5566
Level Designation: District-level service.
Description: Indicates that the student is served in a program supported by Title X - Part C
program funds (e.g., McKinney-Vento subgrant award). A homeless student is one who lacks a
fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including a student who is sharing the
housing of other persons due to a loss of housing, economic hardship or similar reason; living
in motels, hotels, trailer parks or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate
accommodations; abandoned in hospitals; awaiting foster care placement; or a migratory child,
as defined in subsection 2 of section 1309 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965, as amended, who qualifies as homeless under any of the above provisions; or has a
primary nighttime location that is a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed
to provide temporary living accommodations including, but not limited to, shelters operated or
approved by the State or local department of social services, and residential programs for
runaway and homeless youth established pursuant to article 19H of the executive law or a
public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping
accommodation for human beings, including a car, park, public space, abandoned building,
substandard housing, bus, train stations, or similar setting. Homeless students do not include
children in foster care placement or receiving educational services.
Purpose: This data element must be collected for each student, if applicable, to fulfill the State
reporting requirements under NCLB.
Entry Date: Date of first classification as homeless. This is determined by the LEA's homeless
liaison and is the date the liaison determines that child or unaccompanied youth lacks a fixed
regular and adequate nighttime residence.
Exit Date: Date student is declassified as homeless. This is the date the homeless liaison
determines that child or unaccompanied youth now has a fixed regular and adequate nighttime
residence.
Reason for Ending Code: Not used.
No Child Left Behind Transfer Options
Use the NCLB transfer option code each time an application is made or the transfer option is
offered. If the student enrolls in a school using a school-choice option enrollment code and
stays in the school the following year, do not use the NCLB transfer option program service
code in that following year, as no new application is made or transfer option offered in that
year. If a student applies for a transfer option, is turned down or refused to accept the offer,
and re-applies the following year, the NCLB transfer option program service code should be
reported in both years.
Applied for Transfer Option - School Identified as in Need of Improvement — Code 5872
Level Designation: School-level service.
Description: Indicates that the student is enrolled in a school that is in improvement status
under Title I and has applied to transfer to another school in the public school district.
Purpose: To identify such students for reporting these data to the USED.
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