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Consultant: shut down CALPADS now
- 02-19-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
CALPADS, the new comprehensive student data system on which huge hopes for school and student improvement are riding, is hobbled by serious problems. Acting on a consultant’s report bluntly critical of state managers and of IBM, the system vendor, Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell has shut CALPADS down for two months and ordered all efforts focused on fixing it. The hiatus will put data collection from the state’s 1,000 districts months, if not a year, behind schedule. O’Connell had little choice but to act quickly. After studying the system for a month, Sabot Technologies of Folsom predicted a “high probability of system failure should the project continue on the current path” as a result of “anomalies, errors and defects throughout” the system. (more...)
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