USIMS rollout: staff report broader LEA connectivity and continued implementation work

USBE IT and product owners provided a status update on the USIMS modernization project. IT director Jared Felt said the student domain now has about 74% of PowerSchool local education agencies integrated for the student backpack; the finance API pilot is enabling LEAs to log in and review submitted data. "We're with the funds, it was 34, something like that," Felt said when asked about the overall project budget, describing the modernization as a multi‑domain, multi‑year effort.

Product owners and staff described recent technical milestones: pilot connectivity so LEAs can test finance submissions, near‑complete ingestion of legacy educator licensing data into test environments, and a growing set of LEA users providing feedback. Committee members praised staff for the successful fiscal close and acknowledged the project's complexity — "we're building a plane while we're flying it," one member said — and asked for continued updates as the project approaches additional production deployments.