Re: School Board's $22.9 million IT Upgrade

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps they are planning to pay for software for all school districts 
to collect the information, or to interface their software to the 
state's. Or do all schools in Utah use the same software?

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On 2/11/2019 10:18 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
> This year the Utah State Board of Education is requesting $22.9 million for
> a modernization effort, to be implemented by employees and contractors.
>
> The state school board is saying they want to collect student, teacher, and
> financial data from local school districts and charter schools, to upload
> it into their data warehouse, and provide summary reports for various
> purposes.
>
> In regard to student data, they currently collect 16 XML objects that cover
> the basics (student records, school enrollments, attendance, courses, and
> major discipline incidents if any).
>
> They haven't disclosed the number of tables or views that they plan on
> implementing in their data warehouse. My estimate would be 75-100 tables
> and 200-300 views.
>
> We recently implemented a similarly scoped project for about $300K,
> including a web portal, interactive web applications, reports, interfaces
> with 3rd party student and finance systems.  I'm having difficulty
> imagining why they're asking for $23 million?
>
> What does it take to modernize a system of that size? Any thoughts?