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NEW Data Retention Policy (2007 - 2008)
TEP is in the process of developing, with legal help, a policy that addresses data retention. This policy will enumerate the types of data that must be retained and the length of time that each document type must be available. TEP members may find the following resources of interest:
Formulating Retention Policies for Education A short article about options for retaining data in a school setting.
School Dept. Record Schedule This document, from the Secretary of State's office, categorizes data retention schedules specifically for data found in school districts.
Section H of the Mass. Records Retention Schedule, July, 2007 This is the section from the Mass. Records Retention Schedule that specifically references school data.
Records Management, Electronic Records & E-Discovery This is a link to a 2007 presentation made by Alan N. Cote, Esq., First Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, Supervisor of Records. Worth reading.
Notes from TEC Meeting, January 10, 2008
Guide to Mass. Public Record Law
Mass. Records Retention Schedule, July, 2007 (Note: Education section starts on page 120.)
The latest rules on Electronicaly Stored Information (ESI) from Merrill Legal Solutions. Take home message: have an electronic discovery response plan (ERDP) in place before you need it.
NEW CRISTAL - CLEAR
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Data Warehouse Project - 2007
Building upon the success of our inital DOE grant, TEP has secured, through the Gill-Montague RSD, a $200,000, two year grant to help facilitate the increased use of data to improve academic performance. Read
more.
CRISTAL - LITE
Data Warehouse Project - 2005
This grant, received by the Greenfield School District, was written to expand the data warehouse efforts in western Massachusetts by adding additional partners to the original CRISTAL grant. Read
more.
CRISTAL (Cooperative Regional Information Storage for Teaching and Learning)
Data Warehouse Project - 2004
A cooperative effort to develop a shared data warehousing solution for participating schools. Read
more.
Cooperative Internet Project
1999-2006 -- A collaboration between area schools and Greenfield Community
College to provide cost-effective Internet access to the educational sector
through a locally-owned and -managed network.
Greater Franklin County Acceptable Use Policy
NEW Spring 2007 -- The AUP was revised in 2007 to reflect best practices resulting from new technologies.
Download the newly revised version (PDF).
Spring 2001 -- A multi-district acceptable use policy (AUP), adopted at
TEP schools, that guides the use of computers and Internet technology
resources.
Download a PDF version of our collaborative AUP.
Linux Project
2000-2001 -- Funded by a Bell Atlantic EdLink Award. Designed to provide
technology coordinators, teachers and students with technical training
and work-based learning opportunities in the Linux operating system that
support and advance the use of technology in education and promote the
development of critical technology and career competencies that business
and industry increasingly demand of the workforce.
A+ project
2000-01 -- Funded by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of
Education. Using the Franklin County Technical
School as a nexus of multi-district after-school A+ training, the
A+ Project established a model of cooperative technical and entrepreneurial
training for students at six geographically isolated high schools in rural
Franklin County.
Rural New England Information Technologies Project
1999-2001 -- Funded by a National Science Foundation grant. An innovative
project spearheaded by TEP and Greenfield Community College seeking to
implement a nationally relevant model making the community college a focal
point for creating educational pathways in Information Technology for
students in rural areas. A collaborative representing public education,
local and regional government, business and industry, and professional
and trade organizations, the ITP partnership is dedicated to developing
processes whereby regions without large employers can meet a growing demand
from small business enterprises for appropriately trained IT workers. |
