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1st Quarter - 2004
Tennessee - Department of Education
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136 School Districts, 1600 schools, 930,000 Student
Population - 2003
Lisa Cothron - IT Director - lisa.cothron@state.tn.us
Dr. Tim Webb - Director Special Projects - tim.webb@state.tn.us
Dr. Keith Brewer - Asst. DOE Commissioner
keith.brewer@state.tn.us
Dr. Lana Seivers - DOE Commissioner lana.seivers@state.tn.us
Tennessee
EIS
Tennessee
"Statewide Student Information Software System" -
2004
SSMS
Pilot Districts - 2004
Tennessee
Education Improvement Plan - 2004
Tennessee has issued an RFP for a statewide, state hosted
Student Information System in November 2003. The RFP Bid was sent
out to 135 potential vendors, 40 vendors attended the pre-bid
conference, and four (4) bids were received.
The RFP required a "pure web based" SIS software with no
client software allowed at the school districts or schools and only
browser based access. The four bidders were Central Access, Inc.,
Chancery Software, Inc., Infinite Campus, Inc., and PCG/Century
Consultants. PCG/Century is the apparent winner of the bid at
$15,900,000, and that does not include any hardware that may be
required.
The TN DOE has published an implementation plan
requireing 24 school districts as a "pilot" operation to be up
and operating by July 2004, with a total of 78 Districts to be
operating on the new system by December 2004. See current
SSIM status:
Tennessee LEAs are not required to participate with the
planned for state run system and to date Nashville/Metro,
Chattanooga, Memphis and Knoxville have announced that they will be
staying with the systems they have.
Special Education - As part of the RFP for SIS, SPED was
required. PCG has a SPED software and the plan is to integrate their
software as part of the statewide implementation. Memphis and
Nashville/Metro use 4 GL and have announced they will not be
switching to PCG.
The TN Teacher
Certification System is old and a new RFP for a TCS is planned for
in 2004
Professional Development is needed for the TN
DOE
Assessment Software was awarded to CBT
Grants Management Systems are not part of the TN
DOE
Metro/Nashville
School District has issued an RFP for an
Applicant
Tracking System
Watch for re-release for Metro/Nashville "Library System" that
was defaulted on by winning vendor in March or early April 20004.
See:
http://www.nashville.gov/finance/Support_Services/purchasing/bob_letter.htm
Education Data Warehouse (TN-EIS) built in 2001-2002 need
upgrading but took a backseat tothe Statewide SiS RFP, that they are
hopful will accomplish a lot of the goals of an expanded
EIMS.
January 2004
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