1st Quarter - 2004

Nebraska - Department of Education  -  402-471-2057

Dr. Dean Bergman - Data Base Director - dbergman@nde.state.ne.us

Pam Tagart - K12 Data Base Administrator - ptagart@nde.state.ne.us

Nebrasks is a multi Student Information System vendor state - Stong Local LEA Control State

501 Districts - 283,930 Student Population

Omaha is largest District - SASI, Homegrown SIS

RFP will be released for Education Information Management System (EIMS) within six (6) months, should be complete for release by July 2004, according to Pam Tagart. Contact Bob Beechman for more info on this: bbeechman@nde.state.ne.us

Teacher Certification database is old but still part of DOE

Professional Development is not part of Nebraska DOE, but will be in near future

Grants Management System being implemented by outside vendor at this time

Special Education being collected by the LEAs and SIS and entered on a web site at the NE DOE

Unique Student Identifier capability will be part of EIMS RFP requirements 

NE uses PBDI for federal reports

Web based Assessment Software System being used  - Needs to be integrated in EIMS when completed.

Interviewed Pam Tagart - January 2004