AE CTE ETP Data Tracking System (INters)

RFP 26-85723The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) Office, administers the adult education grant program to States; provides technical assistance to improve program quality, accountability and capacity; and establishes national leadership activities to enhance the quality of adult education. Within OCTAE, the Division of Adult Education and Literacy oversees the National Reporting System (NRS) for Adult Education. To meet NRS reporting requirements, the U.S. Department of Education requires States to implement a system that is capable of aggregating NRS data from local programs and producing specific data tables for federal reporting. To maintain compliance with the U.S. Department of Education, and abide by Indiana legislation, the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) created the Indiana Technical Education Reporting System (InTERS) as a data collection and reporting platform. InTERS collects, manages, and reports data for the Indiana Adult Education System, Career and Technical Education Centers. In summary, the InTERS platform was created in 2002, to meet data and Federal reporting requirements supporting career and technical education. Soon after, Adult Basic Education (ABE), given its similar customer groups and data requirements, was added onto the InTERS platform to create the system as it stands today. The current InTERS platform is shared between the DWD and the Commission for Higher Education (CHE). The platform is the “System of Record” (SOR).