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Upper Darby staff recommend LinkIt data warehouse; full board vote set for June
Summary
Dr. Kelly presented a recommendation to adopt LinkIt as the district’s data‑warehouse platform for 2026–27, citing centralized dashboards, individual student portfolios, an intervention manager to support MTSS, an annual cost of about $78,000 and first‑year professional development near $25,000; board approval is required in June.
At a meeting of the Upper Darby School District Education and Pupil Services Committee, Dr. Kelly reviewed a pilot of data-warehouse platforms and recommended adopting LinkIt (transcript spelling varies as "LINQET/LinkIt/Lincoln") as the district’s new data platform. The committee was told the pilot began in October and that teachers and building leaders tested demo accounts and completed surveys to inform the recommendation.
Dr. Kelly said the system would centralize assessment and intervention data, support progress monitoring and MTSS, and provide customizable, shareable dashboards for district and building leaders. The recommended annual subscription cost is $78,000 — about $8,700 higher than the district’s current platform, Performance Matters — and the district anticipates a first‑year professional‑development (PD) cost of approximately $25,000 to expand pilot training across the district. Dr. Kelly said the PD is a one‑time expense and that annual subscription and local rollout costs would follow.
On parent communication, Dr. Kelly said parent-facing progress reports and more descriptive, standards‑aligned communications would likely follow in a second year after the platform is built out: "This will make that a lot easier, this tool," she said, describing automated generation of intervention letters that are currently produced by mail‑merge spreadsheets.
Committee members asked about vendor support and responsiveness; Dr. Kelly said the pilot vendor has been responsive by email and phone and that district representatives have found direct access to implementation specialists helpful compared with the slower ticketing system used with the current platform. Dr. Kelly said the adoption would return to the full board for approval at its June meeting, after technical work to integrate data from Schoology and eSchool and to transfer existing Performance Matters data.
No formal vote occurred at the committee meeting; the recommendation will be on the June board agenda for action.
