Ed-Fi Alliance
Dear CFISD Community,
I wanted to share with you a letter that I recently sent to the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency (TEA). To give you a little background on the concern, each Texas school district school must regularly submit data to the state, including attendance, enrollment, students who receive special education, children experiencing homelessness and the number of students who have completed a college preparatory course. At the start of school this year, the state launched a new system, Ed-Fi Alliance, for uploading the data with the goal of making it easier for school districts and the state to share data and reduce the amount of manual labor required from school staff. We were hopeful that this would indeed be the result. However, this has not been the case.
Why is this so important for CFISD? Data submissions drive accountability and funding in our state. Bad data leads to false accountability results and lost state aid.
We have requested TEA to consider allowing an extension, as the first reporting deadline is Dec. 12, and to initiate discussions on how “hold harmless” provisions could be applied to funding and accountability.
I will keep you posted on any updates on this challenge we are facing.
In the best interest of children,
Douglas Killian, Ph.D.
Superintendent of Schools
Ed-Fi Alliance
Dear CFISD Community,
I wanted to share with you a letter that I recently sent to the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency (TEA). To give you a little background on the concern, each Texas school district school must regularly submit data to the state, including attendance, enrollment, students who receive special education, children experiencing homelessness and the number of students who have completed a college preparatory course. At the start of school this year, the state launched a new system, Ed-Fi Alliance, for uploading the data with the goal of making it easier for school districts and the state to share data and reduce the amount of manual labor required from school staff. We were hopeful that this would indeed be the result. However, this has not been the case.
Why is this so important for CFISD? Data submissions drive accountability and funding in our state. Bad data leads to false accountability results and lost state aid.
We have requested TEA to consider allowing an extension, as the first reporting deadline is Dec. 12, and to initiate discussions on how “hold harmless” provisions could be applied to funding and accountability.
I will keep you posted on any updates on this challenge we are facing.
In the best interest of children,
Douglas Killian, Ph.D.
Superintendent of Schools