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In today’s educational landscape, the role of educational technology, or ed tech, goes beyond handling daily administrative tasks. For school districts striving to manage and validate student data efficiently, and usefully, having the right tech tools is a must. A reliable ed tech partner doesn’t just help with daily operations; it becomes a true partner in streamlining processes and enhancing overall effectiveness. Here are five key reasons why school districts need educational tech partners and how these solutions can transform their data management, validation, and evaluation practices.

In the ever-evolving landscape of K-12 education, turnover is a constant reality. From students graduating, transferring, enrolling, and dropping out to administrators transitioning in and out of roles, the turnover rates in both student and administrative populations can present unique challenges for technology account management. 

Cindy Williams had the stiff neck and crisscrossed eyes to prove she’d done her job protecting the critical funding her school district needed but was in threat of losing.

She is now 100 percent confident that using State Data Validation Suite (SDVS) software from Level Data, Inc. – those days are over.

Williams, most recently running PowerSchool in her new district of Limestone Charter Association in South Carolina but who came from a large traditional district, learned the hard way a few years ago about keeping student funding in place for her former district.

Tish Brandt still thinks back in some disbelief at how cumbersome and time consuming the old way of reporting school data to the state was for her team at Cicero (IL) Public Schools.

“There we so many different layers of complication there,” Brandt said about the former process, before technology advances made it easier and more accurate.

The layers have been virtually eliminated since Cicero began working in 2021 with Level Data and its IT plug in of seamless and smooth reporting with the State Data Validation Suite (SDVS) – a software plug-in for users of PowerSchool.

Level Data applications integrate tightly with PowerSchool. These include page enhancement applications like RealTime Validation, and full page applications like State Data Validation and Validation Reporting.

Each of these applications has options available to help District Administrators apply the appropriate security options, as per their district policies and following PowerSchool security guidelines.

This document outline how Level Data’s PowerSchool applications integrate with PowerSchool’s security mechanisms in order to properly secure the applications.