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IBM State Reporting Toolkit

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The goal
Move to the head of the class, with grade-A reporting capabilities
Educators today are facing complex laws, regulations and requirements for reporting. There is a greater need for flexibility and access to data. IBM provides a system that can respond quickly to the needs of school districts, education agencies and state legislatures. Our solution is tailored to state education agencies’ specific business and technical requirements.

The advantage
Track, collect and store student level data
IBM state reporting toolkit solutions offer your school district a system to access and assign statewide unique student identification to improve accountability. Using a variety of automated solutions, it also facilitates data transmission between the school district and state.

IBM state reporting toolkit solutions offer three components that help facilitate your reporting process—a statewide student ID program, a state student data repository and a state data collection workflow system.

Our solution allows your district to turn data into information to:
  • Enable data-driven decision making and managing to results.
  • Provide comprehensive reporting and tracking to understand student achievement baselines.
  • Allow education leadership to focus on improvements through trend analysis and predictive modeling.

The benefits
Manage student data and maximize federal funding
The IBM state reporting toolkit solution can help reduce administration costs through streamlined processes and decreased paper flow, while maximizing state and federal dollars through accurate reporting. With a deep skill set in assisting K-12 institutions to select and implement applications, IBM has experience with:
  • Student data management solutions at school districts.
  • Statewide data management solutions for state departments of education.
  • Support of state reporting requirements.
  • Alignment to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements with data capture and storage technology.

For example, IBM helped the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction manage detailed information for 1.3 million active students enrolled in the public schools. Our solution connected the school system in a near seamless network to allow student transfers between schools and LEAs, state reporting and longitudinal studies.