We are excited to update everyone and share the eScholar CDW v2020 CEDS 8.0 Align mapping is now available on the CEDS website. v2020 is our latest version of the eScholar CDW PK-12. Going forward, our product version numbers will now reflect the year of release. If you would like to access the publicly available … Read more
Community eligibility provision or CEP allows low-income schools and school districts to secure free lunch for their entire student body is at least 40% verified as low income. CEP removes the administrative burden of schools manually collecting household applications to determine eligibility for school meals. In addition, community eligibility provision removes the prevalent stigma around receiving … Read more
Are you interested in learning how Louisiana, once a state with one of the lowest direct certification rates, is now achieving and sustaining a 100% direct certification rate? Viewers will also learn about Louisiana’s journey on: How the LDOE directly certifies public and most private school students to eligible meal benefits How the LDOE maximizes … Read more
The Perkins Innovation and Modernization Grant Program’s purpose is to identify, support, and evaluate evidence-based and innovative strategies and activities to improve and modernize Career and Technical Education (CTE). The program ensures workforce skills taught in CTE programs funded under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, as amended by the Strengthening … Read more
Congratulations to all the states that recently won PDG B-5 Development of Renewal Grants! The benefits to early childhood education programs like Early Head Start, Head Start and home visiting services improve education in more ways than one. Improvements include better outcomes in social and behavioral development, improved family relationships and increased educational attainment [1]. … Read more
Every educational agency that implements a longitudinal data and reporting system has a common goal: to gain insights and inform decision making. The challenge that these organizations are faced with is how can various data systems be linked to accomplish this goal? The solution to this challenge starts with interoperability. At eScholar, we enable interoperability … Read more
We are happy to announce that our team recently completed the mapping of the 2019 EDFacts Templates to the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS). Mapping the data elements for the EDFacts files involved reviewing all templates, data elements, and data definitions – it can be pretty labor intensive! Our CEDS alignment to the EDFacts 2019 … Read more
The New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) had a grand vision: Give every child in New Mexico an equal opportunity for success by building an integrated data system that would enable policy makers to make informed decisions about early childhood programs and policies. In partnership with eScholar, led by NMPED, and funded by a Race … Read more
Information Technology: Addition Through Subtraction It’s no secret to people who perform internal financial analysis that IT departments consume a large amount of company’s resources; that they are strictly overhead costs without any return on investment. This line of thinking is the reason so many IT departments are understaffed and underequipped. They are often provided … Read more
Are you ready for this summer’s data conference in Washington, D.C.? This year’s agenda is filled to the brim with exciting sessions on data collection, fiscal data, data use (analytical), data management, other, data quality, SLDS, CCS, data use (instructional), data linking beyond K-12, data privacy, and data standards. eScholar is lucky to have … Read more
Leading With Data in Saratoga Springs! We hope that you enjoyed DATAG this year as much as we did! Thank you to DATAG for all of their hard work putting together a successful conference, for all who attended our sessions, and those that hung out with us at the eScholar Reception! This year’s conference theme … Read more
WRESA 2018: Western Region Education Service Alliance 2018 Summer Leadership Conference Hey, North Carolina! Who is attending to 2018 Summer Leadership Conference in Asheville, NC on June 24th? Look out for the eScholar booth because we will be attending too. This year’s theme is “Developing a School Culture That Thrives.” eScholar and Cumberland County Schools … Read more
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