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Superintendent announces EDIA attendance pilot and $1.2M rural health grant application
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Salito told the Burrillville School Committee July 14 the district signed onto an EDIA AI attendance-monitoring pilot and applied for about $1.2 million in a rural health grant aimed at expanding biomedical and health-pathway programming.
Superintendent Dr. Salito told the committee on July 14 that the district recently signed up for an EDIA pilot program through the Department of Education that uses artificial intelligence to trigger notifications when students are absent and to record reasons for absence.
Dr. Salito said the product is designed for K–12 systems, integrates with existing student information systems (Skyward, Aspen/PowerSchool were mentioned), and that attendance notifications will be generated automatically rather than by a school secretary. He said the district signed up for the pilot at no cost and that the vendor would have a data-processing agreement with the district; he emphasized that student information would be stored in the district’s student information system.
Committee members raised questions about data storage, long-term costs and whether the system could replace administrative roles. One member urged caution about AI-related data collection and requested ongoing updates; Dr. Salito said staff will receive training and that the district could stop the rollout if it proves unsuitable.
Dr. Salito also said the district applied for a federal rural health grant of roughly $1,200,000 over two years to expand health-pathway programming at the high school and earlier grades (CNA, phlebotomy, EMT, biomedical lab work), and that award decisions for the first budget year should be announced in about two weeks.
