Enabling Powerful Data Use to Improve AchievementEducation Information Management Advisory CouncilApril 2011

Investment in Performance Management

Dallas

Austin

Houston

El Paso

Boston

DC

Charlotte

Prince George’s County

New YorkChicago

Denver

Los Angeles

Oakland

Rio Grande Valley

Denver Public Schools

• Oakland Unified School District

• Aspire Public Schools

• NYC Department of Education• Civic Builders• College Board• Achievement First

• Chicago Public Schools• Children First Fund• United Neighborhood

Organization• Academy for Urban School

Leadership• Noble network of Charter

Schools

• Green Dot Public Schools• California Charter School

Association• Inner City Education Foundation• Partnership to Uplift Communities• Los Angeles Unified School

District

Prince George’s County Public Schools

Boston Public Schools

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

• DC Public Schools

• DC PCSB• Charter Fund

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has invested $160M+ in grants in multiple districts across 9 states for performance management

Texas Student Data System: Impact goals

Reduce current $323M annual reporting burdens

Enable 100% of Texas educators to have historical, timely and actionable student data to drive classroom and student success

Create common data standard to enable coordinated solutions and market-based tools and benefits

Provide deliverables of value for broad use and adoption

Texas Education Data Infrastructure Includes 4 Major Components

State-sponsored SIS

District Connections Database (DCD) PEIMS TPEIR

Current Reports Future Reports

Primary Goal to Create User-Friendly, Actionable Reports for Educators

District Connections Database Demo https://r2lubbock.dlpdemo.com/Tsds.org

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www.TexasStudentDataSystem.org

Texas Education

Agency

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Foundation

Double LinePartners

TEA is overseeing the TSDS solution with support from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Double Line Partners

The Texas Education Agency (www.tea.state.tx.us) is the state agency that oversees prekindergarten through high school education in Texas, which educates 4.7 million students in its more than 1,200 school districts and charter schools.

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (www.msdf.org) is dedicated to improving the lives of children living in urban poverty around the world. With offices in Austin, TX; New Delhi, India; and Cape Town, South Africa, the Dell family foundation funds programs that foster high-quality public education and childhood health and improve the economic stability of families living in poverty. The foundation has committed more than $530 million to global children’s issues and community initiatives to date.

Double Line Partners, LLC, (www.doublelinepartners.com) is a consulting firm focused on serving the public sector, with a special emphasis on working in K–12 education. Double Line Partners works with a broad range of state and local education agencies across the United States to create scorecards and dashboards to improve student performance.

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10%

Current PEIMS + TEA data District non-PEIMS data

District manual/sporadic data

Data Standard Enables ~60% of Snapshot Metrics to be Powered by Currently Collected Accountability Data