Dinowitz questions ATS limitation on multiple seals

So I'm glad you said ATS because it was reported to us that ATS only allows you to list one seal.

I guess biliteracy is worth more to a school score than civic readiness.

So if there is a student who earns two seals, they're only going to put biliteracy.

So two questions.

One is, are these numbers accurate or are they undercounted because there may be students who aren't able to be put into ATS?

And second, you're switching to...

OASIS.

Once that transition is complete, will that allow for multiple seals to be included in the data that's reported out by the schools?

So to answer the first part of your question, we ask schools to report all students that earn the seal to us.

Currently, there are no combination codes for a student's transcript.

However, schools are meant to produce a letter that goes in a student's cumulative record folder that includes all of the distinctions and endorsements that were placed on their diploma.

So, for example, if a student got the CDOS, the Seal of Biliteracy, and the Seal of Civic Readiness, even though the order of precedence, which is the document that tells the school how to discharge a student, might

tell them to give the student the CDOS in their transcript on that document in their cumulative record folder, it should include all three of those endorsements.

But in terms of the coding, it's not there.