Do you know what CDUCS can do for you?

Starting this Fall, all districts are required to submit statewide assessment data, enrollment data, teacher assignment data, and other elements required to meet the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reporting requirements through the state mandated California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS).

The CALPADS Data Unification and Collection System (CDUCS) facilitates the gathering of necessary data for CALPADS staff reporting as well as the Staff Demographics section for the Online Public Update for Schools (OPUS) state reporting.  With the new CALPADS reporting requirements, including multi-ethnicity and data relating to NCLB legislation, CDUCS provides a solution for joining any student system with the Human Resource System (PC2000 or EPICS) for the purpose of creating CALPADS and OPUS submission files, thereby eliminating the need for redundant data entry of staff data into the student system.  CDUCS will compile and export OPUS and CALPADS ready files that can be either submitted directly to CDE or can be imported back into the districts’ Student System.

CALPADS reporting involves the gathering, organizing, and formatting extensive amounts of data, a function already performed by student systems.  It would neither be practical nor useful for CDUCS to fully recreate the functionality for all sets of CALPADS data for reporting.  Instead, CDUCS focuses specifically on staff-related data.  It accepts the import of CALPADS format files, accesses Position Control 2000 and EPICS databases, and can generate CALPADS and OPUS format files for export with the additional data incorporated.

CDUCS Primary Functions include:

• Import of staff assignment data from district student systems.
• Functionality for building a staff ID crosswalk between the district student system’s employee identifier and the Financial 2000’s employee identifier (EIN).  For district’s that use the same identifier for both systems, this function will not be necessary.
• Browsing of NCLB qualification status by employee assignment.
• Maintenance of NCLB qualifications by employee.
• Export of employee data, including employee NCLB qualification data, multi-ethnicity and other HR data relating to NCLB legislation, for import to the district student system or for district CALPADS and OPUS reporting.

If you haven’t implemented CDUCS yet, please register for training on July 17, 2009 by clicking on the following link:
http://oms.sbcss.k12.ca.us/eventdetail.php?id=24849

For more information regarding the CALPADS project please visit:  http:/www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/cl/

For more information regarding the OPUS project please visit:  http:/www.cde.ca.gov/ds/td/lo/opus.asp