In recent years, all levels of education in the United States have become increasingly accountable for improving the educational status of students. One consequence of this is that state education organizations – public schools, technical centers and colleges, adult education centers, community colleges, and universities – have responded by developing new data systems that are longitudinal, combine elements across business units, and link to related services such as foster care, public assistance, correctional education, and employment. These systems have supported increased reporting requirements, public accountability, evaluation, and research that guides and evaluates policies and programs.
MGT can assist your education system with the increased education data requirements. Our experts will help you develop an integrated approach that will gather all the business components of your public education system (i.e., student characteristics and performance, professional staff, staff preparation and performance, finances and financial aid, facilities). Specifically, MGT's education data practice area can:
- Assist you with federal grant processes
- Develop/present business cases, needs analyses, feasibility analyses
- Develop strategic plans for systems development
- Define detailed system requirements
- Assist you with strategies and administrative tools related to shared administrative information or linking disparate data resources, such as:
- Teacher preparation, certification, teacher employment data bases
- Teachers, course, classrooms, and/or student performance
- Education data to facilities and finance data
- Automated follow-up systems using administrative data including unemployment insurance wage reports, public assistance, corrections, financial aid, postsecondary and adult education, others.
- Education, social service, and employment data bases
- Secondary and postsecondary
- P20 data initiatives
- Provide expert testimony, presentations, task force facilitation
- Develop FERPA-compliant mechanisms to enable researcher access to data bases
- Assist in the design and development of reporting mechanisms and tools so that timely, understandable information is available to decision makers ranging from parents and students to instructional and administrative staff, and elected officials
For more information, contact
Jay Pfeiffer, Director of MGT's Education Data Practice.