1st Quarter - 2004

North Dakota  - Department of Education 701-328-2189

Doug McCrory -Education  MIS Director  - 701-328-2189  dmccrory@state.nd.us

North Dakota is Local Controled District State with 70 of the approximately 200 districts using PowerShchool - Tried several years ago to build PowerSchool enterprise statewide system that failed. Now each LEA has choice to use who they want but PS still has majortiy of districts using their system. Fargo has 11,000 students and uses SASI; BizMark uses PowerSchool, around 10,700 ADM, but has it set up on multiple data bases.

Assessment run by CBT, separate system. 

Teacher Certification run by ND Education Practice Board (mainrame system). Plans for incorporating HQT program into eventual data warehouse are on the drawing board.

Tetra Data (South Carolina Vendor), has statewide contract to transform existing homegrown data collection system. TetraData is just about to begin to implement Phase II, and Phase III will be maintenance. All ND schools are involoved in that initiative to aggregate school and student data for data mining and "business intelligence" purposes.

Special Education System is old system and plans to find new system for that is being looked at.

Professional Development is practically non-existent at state level.

No Grants Management System in place, "need one!"

Unique Student Identifier System plans for four (4) months from now. Current capability "is a mess."

Interviewed Doug McCrory - January 2004