Sustainability

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• Sustainability
• November 16, 2011
• 245 345
• Joyce Popp, ID
• Ken Nelmes, NV
• Rod Packard, WI

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Sustainability Idaho

• Setting
• Vision
• Clear, concise and results oriented
• Dont just build a system to collect data
• Provide data to stakeholders to affect change
• Tie the money to the data
• Program Support
• Superintendent of Public Instruction Governor
• Financial
• 2.1M from the State
• 5.9M from 2009 ARRA Grant

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Sustainability Idaho

• Strategy
• Build versus Buy
• Maintenance Costs Minimized
• Invested in appropriate hardware/software
• Invested in appropriate personnel
• Invested in relationships
• Engage State Federal Program Teams
• Consolidation
• Buy-in monetary support

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Sustainability Nevada

• Sustainability the capacity to endure
• Organizational Sustainability
• Value to Users
• Human Resources
• Knowledge
• Technical Sustainability
• SLDS Quality/Credibility
• Continuity of Operations
• Adaptability
• Financial Sustainability
• Stakeholders Perception of Value
• Planning synchronization with Bi-annual cycle

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Sustainability Nevada

• Challenges
• Relationships/Power
• Distribution of students
• Clark County School District has 70 Washoe
  County School District has 15 Sixteen remaining
  districts have 15 Smallest district has .015
• Coopetition (Competitive Cooperation)
• Transform relationship from contentious to
  collaborative ( From No to Yes if )
• Responsiveness to requests increases workload but
  improves communications
• Technology model is changing from duplicative to
  complementary (Current SY vs. Multi-SY)
• Nevada Dept of Education (NDE) IT Funding
• About 50 of NDE ITs funding comes from
  non-state sources
• Legacy of a 26.5M state-funded LDS project that
  has achieved partial success
• Austere budget/fiscal environment

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Sustainability Wisconsin

• Background
• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction K12
  and public libraries
• Superintendent is non-partisan and independently
  elected
• Wisconsin has received 3 LDS Grants 2006, 2009
  and 2009 ARRA ?
• LDS funding has resulted in a number of new
  solutions and system upgrades
• So it can be difficult to speak to the
  sustainability of the LDS since its not a
  single thing
• 10 of the essential elements and 6 state
  actions identified by DQC
• Create stable sustained support!
• Sustainability funding, cost and technical
  skills
• How are we going to manage the costs and what
  revenue streams will exist after the federal
  dollars run out?
• Do we have the technical expertise to maintain
  the systems we own?
• Both expertise and capacity

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Sustainability Wisconsin

• Manage the Cost
• Rationalize technology dont build an LDS
  island if you can avoid it
• Standardize and eliminate duplicate 2
  application server technologies down to one
• Cancel maintenance of technologies you dont use
  Check the PO
• Eliminate support agreements
• Leverage LDS investment across all IT one
  security solution
• The maintenance and support of the technology is
  an agency thing Not an LDS thing
• So what - 110k / year savings
• Revenue Stream
• No dedicated Wisconsin funding stream - YET!
• Systems that benefit the entire agency have costs
  allocated to a number of program areas
• Program positions converted to IT positions
• Fee for services?

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Sustainability Wisconsin

• Technical Skills expertise and capacity
• Sufficient expertise - Yes
• Sufficient capacity?

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Sustainability Contact Info and Resources

• Contact Info
• Joyce Popp, 208-332-6970, jpopp_at_sde.idaho.gov
• Ken Nelmes, 775-687-9154, knelmes_at_doe.nv.gov
• Rod Packard, 608-266-7049, Rodney.Packard_at_dpi.wi.g
  ov
• Resources
• State Support Team webinar on Sustainability
  http//nces.ed.gov/Programs/SLDS/ppt/Alt_Sources_F
  unding.ppt
• State Support Team Best Practices Brief on
  Sustainability
• http//nces.ed.gov/Programs/SLDS/pdf/best_practice
  s2b.pdf