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District outlines upgrades to student information and family communication systems
Summary
Cleveland City Schools staff described a shift to PowerSchool-based tools — including PowerSchool Messenger, TalkingPoints integration, PowerSchool forms and My PowerHub — aiming to centralize student data, streamline reporting and expand multilingual, two-way communication with families.
Cleveland City Schools staff told the board the district is consolidating student information and parent-communication systems to improve data accuracy, state reporting and family outreach.
Michael Cars, director of student information, summarized the department’s responsibilities and recent work. Cars said the district stores about 3,000,000,000 "pieces of data" in PowerSchool and that the district uses PowerSchool and add-on analytics tools to accelerate state reporting, assessments and internal dashboards that help principals and teachers monitor enrollment, attendance and behavior trends.
Cars described several product…
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