The Michigan Compliance Information System (MICIS) program (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act {IDEA} Part B and Part C Compliance system) has been online and paperless for over four years. The presenters provided a brief overview of the system capabilities and discussed its successes and where it is going.

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This participant-directed, interactive session of simultaneous roundtable discussions touched on the topics that have been emerging in states' efforts to build and maintain longitudinal student data systems. Topics included the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, data warehouses, data quality, request for proposals/vendors, effective data use, and system sustainability.

1. Comprehensive Data Model for Education
   The Forum Comprehensive PK–12 Data Model Task Force is an effort by the Forum to create a conceptual and a logical national education data model. The model will take into account data elements, categories of data elements, the education process, definitions and semantics, as well as relationships among data elements. The Task Force will get input from as many educators as possible.
   This roundtable was designed to get input from MIS participants. An overview of the data model effort, how you can get involved in the working subgroups and preliminary data model pieces were ready for your review and reaction.

2. Join the Oklahoma Wave
   The Oklahoma Wave project is a state data collection system based on the SIF specification. This presentation gave a status update on the project and the goals for future direction. Included was the methodology used to keep over 500 districts on track and motivated to assist in the collection of data and assignment of student testing numbers.

3. Data Collection Challenge and Success at Wayne Finger Lakes Rural Information Center
   One of the challenges for a New York State regional information center is the collection of data from districts to feed into the state-level data warehouse. This presentation showed how Wayne Finger Lakes collects district data to be fed into an extensible markup language data store built on the SIF specification. Challenges and successes surrounding this data collection and how it will improve the quality of data were discussed.

4. Data Integration Practices in Park County School District #1
   This presentation described how Park 1 in Powell, Wyoming uses the School Interoperability Framework (SIF) specification to integrate applications at the district and also for vertical reporting to the state. Lessons learned, why the SIF standard is important in a school district, and the district's roadmap for future SIF agents were also discussed.

This session provided an opportunity for participants to review the details the planned activities for the submission 2006–07 school year (SY) data and the completion of the Office of Management and Budget paperwork clearance of the SY 2007-08 data elements. There were opportunities for audience participation and suggestions concerning these milestones and objectives.