Steering Committee Conference Call

October 19, 2007

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Participants

Susan VanGorden, Forum Chair, Lakota Local School District (OH)
Bruce Dacey, Forum Vice-Chair, Delaware Department of Education
Linda Rocks, NESAC Chair, Bossier Parish Schools (LA)
Helene Bettencourt, NESAC Vice-Chair, Massachusetts Department of Education
Levette Williams, PPI Chair, Georgia Department of Education
James Haessly, PPI Vice-Chair, School District of Waukesha (WI)
Ghedam Bairu, National Center for Education Statistics
Mary McCrory, National Center for Education Statistics
Maureen Matthews, Council of Chief State School Officers
Tom Szuba, Quality Information Partners
Beth Young, Quality Information Partners

Discussion

Winter 2008 Forum Meeting Planning

Steering Committee members felt that the draft agenda looked good. Several topics for general or joint sessions at the Winter 2008 Meeting were suggested. Members asked staff to explore the following:

• A presentation about the real-world use of the Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data: A Resource for Education Agencies.
• An update on the activities and plans of the CCSSO EIMAC (Education Information Management Advisory Consortium). Ghedam will ask Deborah Newby to share an update at a general or joint session.
• An update on the EDFacts/OCR collection, especially in light of reports that the implementation date has been changed.
• A professional development session about data sharing across agencies in a state/locality. For example, what sharing is allowable between education agencies, child and youth services, the legal system, etc? This topic could also be framed in terms of the work of the Disaster Recovery Working Group (i.e., How can agencies plan to exchange data after an emergency?).
• Strategies for implementing the Secondary School Course Classification System: School Codes for the Exchange of Data (SCED) and e-transcripts. If this isn't a topic for a general or joint session, it will appear on the PPI agenda.
• Another potential topic: How do various immigration issues affect education data?
• Tom Purwin (Jersey City Public Schools, NJ) has been asked to share an updated version of the presentation he gave at the Summer 2007 Data Conference about using Forum publications in a local education agency.

Request to Join the Forum

The Northeast & Islands Regional Educational Laboratory (NEIREL), one of the IES sponsored regional education labs, has asked to join the Forum. The Steering Committee agreed to pass the request on to the full Forum for a vote.

Longitudinal Data Systems at EIMAC

Bruce Dacey updated Steering Committee members on the EIMAC Longitudinal Data System (LDS) initiative. Among other activities, EIMAC and CCSSO will ask chief state school officers to: 1) Develop a core set of questions that should be addressed by a longitudinal data system (i.e., what information the chiefs wish to access through an LDS); 2) Estimate what resources are required to sustain an LDS over time; and 3) Establish a vision for e-record and e-transcript exchange.

Next Call

Friday, November 16, 1:00 PM Eastern Time. Dialing instructions will be sent prior to the call.

Steering Committee Notes

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