Work group seeks Power BI walkthrough and anonymized extracts to validate discipline and busing analyses
Because the live Power BI dashboard contains student PII, district staff offered a secure walkthrough or anonymized data extracts; the work group asked for an interactive session so members can test coding, identify double coding, and confirm whether disparities persist after case‑level review.
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District staff told the work group that the most useful evidence to answer KPI questions exists in the Power BI dashboard, which contains student‑level records and cannot be published publicly without anonymization. The district offered a two‑part follow‑up: (1) prepare anonymized spreadsheets covering the fields the work group needs, or (2) host a secure, hands‑on walkthrough of the dashboard so reviewers can manipulate filters and drill into narratives.
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