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State education staff outline progress on Minimum School Program automation to reduce spreadsheet errors
Summary
USBE staff described progress on MSPA, the Minimum School Program Automation project, which aims to replace complex spreadsheets with an online system to calculate school allocations. Staff reported completed modules, ongoing development items, and plans for LEA access and public dashboards once QA is complete.
Utah State Board of Education staff reported progress on MSPA, the Minimum School Program Automation project designed to centralize and automate calculations that allocate nearly $8 billion in state and local K–12 funds.
Dale Frost, minimum school program administrator, said MSPA will pull required inputs from state systems, run program formulas centrally, and produce consistent allocations while reducing human error caused by thousands of spreadsheet cell references. “There are 35 steps in…
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