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Agency describes Ed‑Fi adoption to normalize student information while statewide SIS was rejected
Summary
Agency of Education officials told the House committee that Vermont adopted the Ed‑Fi data standard and now ingests student data from multiple student information systems (SIS) to normalize records; a single statewide SIS was rejected because districts cited cost and staff time burdens.
Agency of Education staff told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee that Vermont has adopted the Ed‑Fi data standard to collect and normalize student information from multiple local student information systems and that a single statewide SIS was not adopted.
Jen Hicks, division director of the AOE’s Data Management and Analysis Division, told the committee that four different SIS products remain in use across Vermont districts and that Ed‑Fi serves as an intermediary. “What Ed‑Fi does is it hooks up to any district system and pulls the data down and then normalizes it,” Hicks said. She explained that Ed‑Fi maps…
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