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SAS warns subcommittee state funding lapse would erase decade-plus of linked education analytics
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Katrina Miller of SAS said Michigan’s Education Visualization and Analytics Solution (EVAS) stores a unique longitudinal dataset dating to 2013 and that the vendor’s current contract ends in April; without renewed funding the company will begin erasing data collected under opt‑in arrangements with districts and ISDs.
Katrina Miller, director of educational partnerships for SAS Institute, told the House appropriations subcommittee that the state’s EVAS contract provides a longitudinal analytics tool used by Michigan districts and intermediate school districts and that a lapse in funding would trigger contractually required data erasure beginning in April.
“Right now, all of this information, because of the data destruction language we have in our contract, we will begin the erasure of that information basically in April,” Miller said. She described EVAS as a…
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