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Superintendent updates: Skyward migration, revised budget, accreditation timeline and PowerSchool breach response
Summary
Superintendent Sean Teague reported progress on the district's Skyward/QR migration, ESSER reporting and revised budget timeline, briefed the board on Cognia accreditation dates and curriculum adoption timing, described arrangements with MOSS field program, and gave an update on a PowerSchool data breach and the vendor's mitigation offer.
Moscow — Superintendent Sean C. Teague told the board on Jan. 22 that the district’s business office is in phase 3 of a Skyward migration and that staff are completing crosswalks for payroll, HR and purchasing while preparing the revised budget due in February.
Teague said ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) reporting round two is due in February and will require detailed accounting of federal expenditures. He said staff will be “all hands on deck” to complete that filing.
On accreditation, Teague said the external review team (Cognia) is scheduled to visit March 30–April 3, with district deliverables due Feb. 29. The visit will include district-level meetings, school interviews and a preliminary findings presentation to the district. Teague said the district will use accreditation findings to inform board goals such as improved graduation rates.
Teague briefed trustees on curriculum adoption work: elementary and middle-school reviews are mostly complete; the high-school review is close. He said the district expects to present a recommended science adoption to a joint committee of parents and teachers in February or March.
He described plans to bring MOSS (outdoor science program) graduate instructors to Moscow for two weeklong sessions for fifth- and sixth-graders as a cost-saving local alternative to the program’s McCall site, but noted growing statewide concern about overnight portions of similar programs and said liability for overnight stays remains under review.
Teague also updated the board on a recent PowerSchool data breach that affected historical records. He said the district reported the incident to the Idaho attorney general and other required entities within the statutory window, and that PowerSchool is offering impacted individuals credit- and identity-protection services (options that include two- and five-year protections) and has agreed to take a lead role in outreach for affected people.
Other business-office items Teague mentioned included a planned Skyward user conference in Boise for staff training and continuing support calls with the vendor.
