Cabarrus County Schools will be expanding its use of a student progress monitoring system. The initial pilot, involving 940 students, will expand to 11,300 in 19 schools during the next school year.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/30/10
Carmel Clay Schools of Carmel, IN, is moving to GlobalScholar's Pinnacle Insight as its data management system in an ongoing effort to improve data-driven decision making in the district.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 03/18/10
El Paso Independent School District in Texas will be implementing a security appliance strictly intended to prevent confidential data from leaving the network.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/08/10
Three Texas school districts have recently moved to Certica Solutions' Certify software for internal data certification. Humble Independent School District (HISD) and Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD), both in the Houston area, and San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) said they chose Certify to improve the quality of the data reported to Texas Education Agency (TEA) under state reporting laws.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 03/02/10
Westside Union School District of Quartz Hill, CA, which serves communities in the Antelope Valley about 60 miles north of Los Angeles, reported that it will automate its extensive district timekeeping processes with a solution from workforce management software provider Kronos.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 02/26/10
Allentown School District in Pennsylvania is overhauling its administrative systems. The district said it has replaced its Legacy human resources and financial systems to address growth and improve efficiencies.
After two years of testing and development in partnership with more than 200 school districts, Schoolnet has released its new student information system, GradeSpeed. The system allows user districts to import, track, and report on all student data without requiring substantial training of administrators who expect to use it regularly, according to the company.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 02/23/10
Iron Mountain, best known for providing off-premises backup of enterprise data, said Monday it has acquired e-mail and SharePoint archiving solutions provider Mimosa Systems for $112 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/10
In an effort to save time and resources related to data compilation, Klein Independent School District (KISD) in suburban Houston has overhauled its data management systems.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 02/22/10
Danelo Education Solutions has announced an agreement with Manchester Academic Charter School (MACS), a K-8 school in Pittsburgh, PA, for the school to beta test its Project TEACH (Together Everyone ACHieves) suite of classroom management tools.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 02/11/10