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USBE staff report progress on UCIMS: finance feeds operational, student backpack and educator tools advancing
Summary
USBE staff updated the finance committee on the Utah Core Information Management System (UCIMS/USIMS), reporting roughly $21.6 million spent of $38 million funded to date, progress connecting finance vendors, and ongoing work to bring student and educator datasets online and secure vendor integrations.
Staff from the Utah State Board of Education presented a multi‑domain update on the agency’s UCIMS (also referenced as USIMS) initiative, reporting progress on finance integrations, student data access (the “student backpack”) and educator‑domain functionality.
Finance API and vendor testing Don Moody and other finance staff told the committee seven finance vendors have connected to the new finance API and most are ready to begin validation and pilot data exchanges. Moody said the immediate team focus is cleaning and validating account combinations, finalizing indirect‑cost calculations and coordinating vendor acceptance testing. "Most of those [vendors] are ready to send us a complete set of budget and actual data for their pilot LEA," Moody said.
Money spent, funding sources and context Staff provided a compact financial summary: about $21.6 million has been spent to date and the…
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