Customers

The 2009 DQC Annual Survey State Profile includes a state’s status on the 10 Essential Elements, which key policy questions the state can answer, a national comparison across states, and a preview for the 10 State Actions. See below how eScholar customers are doing in their efforts to meet the DQC's 10 Essential Elements.

Georgia

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Missouri

Nebraska

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

 

Department of Defense Education Agency

June 2008 – The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) has selected eScholar’s Uniq-ID® for Students to provide unique identifiers for DoDEA students across 200 schools in 12 foreign countries, seven states, Guam and Puerto Rico. DoDEA school administrators – regardless of location - can access the application through the Internet to assign unique student identification numbers. The eScholar solution will be a critical first step for registering students in DoDEA schools around the world.

U.S. Department of Education

October 2006— eScholar teams with prime system integrator, Deloitte Consulting LLP, to deploy the matching, tracking and data collection capabilities of the eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students for the U.S. Department of Education’s Migrant Student Information Exchange (MSIX). This long anticipated project will give states the capability to effectively and efficiently exchange migrant student records nationally.

Georgia

July 2004— The Georgia Department of Education selects the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® solution and the eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students as the core infrastructure for the Georgia Student Information System. The system is to accommodate information about the State’s 1.5 million students, providing data reporting and trend analysis via web access to key educational staff within Georgia’s K-12 public school districts and to state-level decision makers.

Iowa

January 2008— The Iowa Department of Education (IDE) has chosen the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® system as their statewide educational data warehouse solution. IDE currently uses eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students to assign unique identifiers to over 481,000 students in its school system. The eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® solution will integrate seamlessly with their existing eScholar application. Iowa’s data warehouse project will include COGNOS® Business Intelligence portal technology.

January 2004— Iowa chooses eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students to provide unique student identifiers for every K-12 student in Iowa's 370 districts. eScholar rose to the challenge by beginning implementation in January 2004 and having the system in production operation by late May.

Kansas

April 2007— The Kansas Department of Education (KSDE) has chosen to implement the eScholar Uniq-ID® for Staff to address its need to uniquely identify state education agency and district staff throughout Kansas without using Social Security numbers. KSDE is the pioneer customer for the eScholar Uniq-ID® for Staff, a product developed with the same proven matching technology used in eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students. The student system has been successfully implemented in nine states and is being deployed by the US Department of Education for the Migrant Student Information Exchange. eScholar deployed this new offering in record time to address KSDE's urgent need.

January 2005 - The Kansas Department of Education selects eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students to provide unique student identifiers for 470,000 K-12 students in Kansas’s 303 districts.

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Kentucky

June 2007— The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has selected the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse™ solution as the foundation for the Kentucky Instructional Data System (KIDS), which was funded by a $5.8 million grant from the US Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. KDE has chosen to implement a comprehensive solution including the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® solution with COGNOS 8 and Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server 2007 software applications.

Missouri

January 2005— The Missouri Department of Education selects eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students to provide unique student identifiers for each of Missouri’s 924,000 K-12 students served by 524 districts.

Nebraska

August 2004— The Nebraska Department of Education selects the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® solution and the eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students as the core infrastructure for the Nebraska Student Information System.

New Mexico

May 2006— New Mexico chooses the eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students to expand its successful implementation of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse™ solution. This addition will equip the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) and New Mexico school districts with the tools necessary to improve the quality and timeliness of data collection, analysis, and reporting. NMPED is the first eScholar client to opt for eScholar hosting of both systems.

November 2005 - The New Mexico Public Education Department selects the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® solution for its Student, Teacher Accountability System (STARS), fulfilling its search for a platform strong enough to support its phased development approach for increased functionality, as well as a projected student population of 400,000 by the year 2010.

New York

March 2007— The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has selected eScholar RADAR™ as its data verification system. NYSED selected eScholar RADAR™ to identify data anomalies and inconsistencies such as simultaneously enrolled students and students incorrectly identified as drop-outs. eScholar RADAR™ provides the capability to: 1) review and validate data; 2) configure the types of audits desired; 3) start the review and detect anomalies; and 4) automatically send reports to the appropriate local education agencies.

April 2004— New York State chooses the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® solution as the data foundation for the New York State Accountability System. eScholar has long been the standard data warehouse in New York. The success of this initiative has led to expansion of the product to include not only all 704 districts, but to support the sophisticated analytical and reporting of the State Education Department.

Read more about how Eastern Suffolk BOCES is partnering with eScholar

North Carolina

November 2008— The State of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has selected eScholar Uniq-ID® products to implement a Unique Statewide Identifier (UID) System to assign an identifier for every student and staff member participating in the North Carolina education system. This is part of the first steps in the NC DPI’s multi-stage effort to create the NC Common Education Data Analysis and Reporting System (CEDARS), a repository that State, local and federal policy makers and service providers can use to analyze relationships between various educational factors and student performance over time. This identifier will be a key to facilitating longitudinal data tracking and will be integrated into the various source systems maintained by DPI to support cross system data matching.

 

Pennsylvania

July 2007— The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has selected the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® solution as the backbone of the Pennsylvania Informational Management System (PIMS). PDE currently uses eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students to assign unique identifiers to the 1.8 million students across the state. The eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® solution is designed to work seamlessly with the eScholar Uniq-ID® application. The PIMS solution also includes COGNOS 8 and the project will utilize the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF).

January 2006— The Pennsylvania Department of Education selects the eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students to provide unique student identifiers for over 1,821,000 K-12 students in its 501 school districts. It’s eScholar’s largest implementation of its unique student identifier system to date.

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South Carolina

March 2005— The South Carolina Department of Education chooses eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students to provide unique student identifiers for each of South Carolina’s 694,584 K-12 students served by 89 districts. Teaming with eScholar to build the country’s first statewide system based on technologies compliant with SIF (Schools Interoperability Framework) is Edustructures, the leader in SIF software products and services.

          South Carolina has made solid progress in developing education data

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Some of the LEAs that eScholar is partnering with, include:

Northside Independent School District, TX

Pittsburgh Public Schools, PA

Brockton Public Schools, MA

Oakland Unified School District, CA
Fort Wayne Community Schools, IN
Prince Georges County Public Schools, MD
Yonkers Public Schools, NY

Newburgh Enlarged City School District, NY
Cumberland County Schools, NC

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Memphis City Schools, TN