Framing the Discussion

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Education SummitPresentation

• Framing the Discussion
• Building comprehensive education data systems
• Where are we now where do we need to go?

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Perot Systems

• Internationally recognized provider of
  information technology solutions
• Employees more than 22,000 associates worldwide
• Generated revenues of more than 2 billion in
  2006
• Trusted by more than 500 clients
• Perot Systems supports education initiatives for
  K-12 and post-secondary education
• For the U.S. Department of Education we are the
  prime contractor for the EDFacts initiative

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EDFacts

• EDFacts is the process and system used by the
  U.S. Department of Education to define, collect
  and utilize data.

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EDFacts Objectives

• Reduced data collection burden for ED and States
• Stronger partnership between ED and the State and
  local education community
• Improved accuracy, timeliness, and utility of
  information collected
• 100 of States Reporting 100 of EDFacts data
• Robust K-12 business intelligence capability

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Progress Towards Achieving Objectives

• Negotiated data elements with all ED K-12 Program
  Offices
• Visited all 52 state education agencies to
  finalize data definitions and prepare them for
  submitting data
• Utilized data submitted to EDFacts for other ED
  data collections reducing the data collection
  burden on SEA staff (CSPR, OSEP, CCD)
• Empowered ED Program Offices with actionable data
  via a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence
  tools
• Awarded IES grants to 14 State Education Agencies
  

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K-12 Education Data Supply Chain
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Key Challenges

• Information Technology
• Outdated systems, outdate data
• Lack of ability to track individual students
• Systems are not interoperable
• Data definitions vary
• Culture
• Historically policy and instruction decisions are
  not based on timely and accurate data
• Resources and Capacity
• Duplicative and disjointed data requests
• Investment dollars are limited

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Conference Objectives

• Increase awareness among SEA executive staff
  regarding
• Complexity of education data system requirements
• Long-term commitment needed to build/sustain
  systems
• Share best practices regarding how other states
  and industries are meeting similar challenges
• Obtain the commitment from the SEA leadership to
  bring about the cultural shifts and
  organizational restructuring needed
• Begin process of defining a comprehensive state
  education data system

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Conference Agenda -- Monday, May 14
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Conference Agenda -- Monday, May 14 (cont.)
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Conference Agenda -- Tuesday, May 15