Performance-Based Incentive

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

State Board of Education

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

6A-14.07621Performance-Based Incentive

NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 42 No. 123, June 24, 2016 issue of the Florida Administrative Register.

(1) through (2) No change.

(3) Measures. The Florida College System performance-based incentive shall include four (4) measures, also referred to as metrics in s. 1001.66, F.S. These four (4) measures, as described herein, are the only measures used by the Division for purposes of the distribution of the performance-based incentive.

(a) No change.

(b) “Completion Rates” means a Florida College System student has earned an academic credential in the form of a degree, certificate, diploma or apprenticeship.

1. through 3. No change.

4. Calculation of the Completion Rate for a Cohort.

a. No change.

b. Cohort Denominator. Those students who started at a Florida College System institution and did not graduate from the same Florida College System institution are placed in the denominator. The denominator will be adjusted by:

(I). Students who are found to have enrolled in a different postsecondary institution after the first fall semester are considered to have transferred and removed from the denominator.

(II). Students who have completed a program are graduates and removed from the denominator.

(II)(III). Students who died or were totally and permanently disabled; those who left school to serve in the armed forces or were called to active duty; those who left to serve with a foreign aid service of the federal government, such as the Peace Corps; and those who left to serve on an official church mission are removed from the denominator.

c. Calculating Rates.

(I). through (II). No change.

(c). “Postgraduation Employment and Continuing Education” means a student has either an enrollment record in the year following graduation or a student graduated from college and has an earnings record during at least one fiscal quarter in the year following graduation.

1. This measure captures the outcomes of a cohort of graduates in the year after graduating. To be included in the cohort, the student would have earned a degree, certificate, diploma or apprenticeship awarded by the Florida College System institution first attended.

2. through 3. No change.

(d) “Completer Entry-Level Wages” means the wages of a Florida College System graduate in their first year after completion.

1. This measure captures the outcomes of a cohort of graduates a year after graduating. To be included in the cohort, the student would have earned a degree, certificate, diploma or apprenticeship awarded by the Florida College System institution first attended.

2. through 3. No change.

(4) through (7) No change.