Re: School Board's $22.9 million IT Upgrade

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're talking about the public sector.  If they don't spend their budget,
they don't get the same or more next year.  So the more they ask for, they
more they get now and in the future.

It's not about how much it would "really" take.  But I get your point.

I've worked for many public sector/government agencies over the years.
Some are frugal, most are not and are downright wasteful (hey, it's not
their money).

It also depends on what they're spending it on and the mindset of the
person making decisions (ie, roundabouts and bike lanes good, after school
programs and extra curricular activities bad).

Bradley V. Stone
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:18 PM Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This year the Utah State Board of Education is requesting $22.9 million for
> a modernization effort, to be implemented by employees and contractors.
>
> The state school board is saying they want to collect student, teacher, and
> financial data from local school districts and charter schools, to upload
> it into their data warehouse, and provide summary reports for various
> purposes.
>
> In regard to student data, they currently collect 16 XML objects that cover
> the basics (student records, school enrollments, attendance, courses, and
> major discipline incidents if any).
>
> They haven't disclosed the number of tables or views that they plan on
> implementing in their data warehouse. My estimate would be 75-100 tables
> and 200-300 views.
>
> We recently implemented a similarly scoped project for about $300K,
> including a web portal, interactive web applications, reports, interfaces
> with 3rd party student and finance systems.  I'm having difficulty
> imagining why they're asking for $23 million?
>
> What does it take to modernize a system of that size? Any thoughts?
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