Specifications include, but are not limited to:RTT-D Project 2: The Auburn, Federal Way, Highline, Kent, Renton, Seattle and Tukwila school districts competed together for the federal funding in the fall of 2012 as the “Road Map District Consortium.” The name is a reference to the districts’ participation in the Road Map Project, a collaborative effort to dramatically improve education in South Seattle and South King County. The districts’ 320-page plan was among 16 winners selected from nearly 400 applications, the U.S. Department of Education said in December 2012. The PSESD region was one of only two applicants to win the maximum award of $40 million. The Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) is responsible for managing the grant’s implementation and function as the fiscal agent. The winning plan covers 261 schools and 150,000 students, including 36,000 high-need children. The districts are using the grant to implement the following plans in an effort to help students “Start Strong,” be “STEM Strong” and “Stay Strong” Project 2 is one of 18 Race to the Top projects and commitments. This project creates and integrates a variety of academic data systems using software developed and maintained by PSESD. This system is developed using an agile development methodology shared across multiple development teams at multiple organizations, each developing or maintaining one or more parts of the system. The Data Transfer System essentially serves as a data flow connector between these various systems, using the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) version 3 as the data model and infrastructure specification for transferring objects in a RESTful, standards-compliant way. The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is the primary provider of Student Record Exchange (SRE) objects that conform to the SIF 3.x specification, which are delivered to a SIF 3 Broker and routed to the appropriate data connector for the destination school district where a student is transferring.
