2011-12 Workforce Development Information System (WDIS) Database Handbook
The District WDIS Database Handbook is for use by the school districts, and offers guidance on the reporting of adult general education and postsecondary career and technical education student data in the Workforce Development Information System (WDIS).
What is WDIS?
WDIS [Workforce Development Information System] is the Workforce Development reporting system and uses seven reporting formats. Each format contains specific data elements required for gathering student and teacher data.
Secondary career and technical education students are reported in the K-12 reporting system. However, secondary students are also reported in WDIS when they are co-enrolled in an adult general education program or when dually enrolled in a postsecondary career and techncial education program.
WDIS System Requirements
All public school districts are required to submit all postsecondary career and technical education and adult general education enrollment data via the DOE Student Information Data Base.
1008.41, Florida Statutes, requires the development and implementation of a comprehensive management information system linking all levels of the state education system.
Rule 6A-1.0014, Florida Administrative Code, details all automated student and staff information requirements.
1008.41, Florida Statutes, addresses specific requirements regarding the career and technical education management information system.
In addition, Senate Bill 1688 passed by the 1997 Florida Legislature provided for the establishment of a Workforce Development reporting system to implement the data requirements mandated in that act.