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EDFacts Career and Technical Education 2011-12 (EDFacts CTE:2011-12) is one of 17 'topics' identified in the EDFacts documentation (in this database, each 'topic' is entered as a separate study); program data is available since 2005 at . EDFacts CTE:2011-12 annually collects cross-sectional data from states about students who participate in career and technical education by subgroups of students at the LEA and SEA levels. EDFacts CTE:2011-12 data were collected using the EDFacts Submission System (ESS), a centralized portal, and their submission by states is mandatory and required for benefits. Not submitting the required reports by a state constitutes a failure to comply with law and may have consequences for federal funding to the state. Key statistics produced from EDFacts CTE:2011-12 are from 8 data groups with information on CTE Concentrators-Academic Achievement, CTE Concentrators-Exiting, CTE Concentrators-Graduates, CTE Concentrators in ESEA Graduation Rate, CTE Concentrators-Placement, CTE Concentrators-Technical Skills, CTE Concentrators-Programs for Non-Traditional, and CTE Participants-Programs for Non-Traditional. For the purposes of this system, data groups are referred to as 'variables', as a result of the structure and format of EDFacts' data.