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Changes to SIMS for 2008-09 School Year

No additional data elements have been added for the 2008–2009 SIMS data collections. The definitions and related text for several data elements will be modified and/or clarified in the SIMS Data Handbook. Modified text is identified in blue.

Summary

1. DOE021 — LEP Students in their First Year in U. S. Schools. Modify explanatory text.
2. DOE022 — Immigration Status. Modify definition and explanatory text.
3. DOE023 — Country of Origin. Modify definition and explanatory text.
4. DOE025 — Limited English Proficiency. Modify definition.
5. DOE026 — English Language Learner Program Status. Clarify descriptions.
6. DOE035 — Career/Vocational Technical Education — Type of Program. Discontinue several values and modify explanatory text.
7. DOE052 — Student Truancy. Modify definition.
8. Appendix C — First Language Codes. Add 16 codes and modify titles for several languages currently listed.

Detailed

8. Appendix C — First Language Codes. See 16 new codes in blue and bracketed by double asterisks below. Deleted text—in some cases whole codes have been deleted—are in red and bracketed by double pound signs.

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