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School committee approves move to Skyward’s Qmlativ student information system after debate over teacher input and data security
Summary
At its Jan. 29 meeting the North Providence School Committee voted to approve administration’s recommendation to adopt Skyward’s Qmlativ student information system, after discussion of training, teacher participation in the selection process and a national data breach involving another vendor.
At its Jan. 29 meeting, the North Providence School Committee voted to approve the administration’s recommendation to adopt Skyward’s new platform, Qmlativ, as the district’s student information system.
The committee discussed the vendor selection and rollout at length before voting. District data director David McNally described the selection process and the technical work that would follow, saying the change would require “data scrubbing” and rebuilding any custom forms or staff access that do not migrate automatically. McNally said the new dashboard feature would add real‑time data capabilities and estimated the licensing cost as “about 90¢ per student additional cost” if the dashboard is included.
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