Fall
2007
TO: BEDS Coordinators (BOCES)
FROM: Martha P. Musser, Coordinator
SUBJECT: Personnel Forms for the 2007-08 Basic Educational Data System
Enclosed
please find all necessary forms and related materials for the 2007-08 Basic
Educational Data System (BEDS).
1. A supply of forms titled Educational
Personnel Data Form—Teachers (brown mark-sense forms) and assignment code
sheets (green) for use by teachers.
2. A supply of forms titled Educational
Personnel Data Form—Nonteaching Personnel (blue mark-sense forms) and
assignment code sheets (red) for use by nonteaching personnel.
3. Assurance Form for BEDS
Personnel Data Forms.
4. IMF BEDS Online Memo (the
BOCES School Data form is to be entered online).
5. A return address label for
your convenience in returning completed forms to the Department.
The Administrative manuals for Teachers and Non-teachers, the NCLB Fall
2007 Supplement, and all memos, notes and correspondence pertaining to this
BEDS mailing are available only on the SED Web site (www.emsc.nysed.gov/irts). Click on
“BEDS” in column 1 under “Data Collection.”
We suggest the following general procedures with
respect to the personnel forms.
1. Prior to Information Day (Wednesday, October 3, 2007)
in your BOCES, distribute a memorandum to all professional staff members
informing them of the date, time and place forms will be completed as well as
the items of information they will be asked to verify or enter on the forms.
2. When Information Day is held in your BOCES, be sure that all professional employees are asked to attend a forms completion session and complete the appropriate form. In general, two sessions should be held – one for teaching and one for nonteaching staff members.
3. The superintendent or his designee must certify that teachers have correctly reported whether they received “high quality professional development” in 2006-07 and whether they are highly qualified to teach each core course assignment. Please see the “NCLB Fall 2007 Supplement” for further information.
1. All forms for your BOCES
should be returned to the Education Department in one mailing. The return
address is (label enclosed);
BEDS Project
New York State
Education Department
2.
The forms should be returned as soon as possible after Information Day
is held, but no later than October 26, 2007.
3. Do not return administration
manuals or assignment code sheets.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions, please feel free to call (518) 474-7965.