News Archive

Older Announcements & Events

For more recent announcements, visit the News & FAQs main page.

For an archive of documents relating to this project, visit the current Project Archives and the older Historical Documents page.

Spring 2015

  • TEA will be presenting "One System, One Process, One Standard: How TSDS Is Unifying TEA’s Data Systems" at the Texas Association of School Board Administrators' Midwinter Conference in Austin, (1/25/2015 - 1/28/2015)

Summer 2014

  • TEA has proposed a demonstration for SXSWedu--voting is now open to include the demo in the 2015 lineup (8/20/14)
  • The general public can subscribe to the new TSDS Newsletter (08/20/14)
  • The second TSDS PEIMS release was successfully rolled out to the four LPR LEAs (8/8/14)

Spring 2014

  • The first TSDS PEIMS release was successfully rolled out to the four LPR LEAs (6/1/2014)
  • TSDS Unique ID Project was awarded 2014 Best of Texas Award in the category of Best Application Serving the Public (05/2014).
  • studentGPS® manager Scott Johnson was awarded the 2-14 Best of Texas Award in the category of Outstanding IT Service and Support (05/2014)
  • TEA released Pharr-San Juan Alamo ISD studentGPS® Dashboard Case Study (04/2014)
  • TEA released Lubbock ISD studentGPS® Dashboard Case Study (02/2014)  

Fall 2013

  • TSDS Rollout Plan for LEAs published (9/18/13)

Summer 2013

Spring 2013

  • Community Impact News published an article about Hays CISD's participation as an LPR LEA (pdf version) (5/20/2013)
  • A kick-off meeting for the selected Early Adopter LEAs was held on Thursday, May 16, 2013 (5/20/2013)
  • TEA participated in the 2013 Tech Fiesta conference hosted by Region 20. We presented "Texas Student Data Systems (TSDS): An Overview and Up-to-date Status" and "TSDS studentGPS® Dashboards: Bring Your Own Device (a hands-on walk-through) - 4/18-4/19/13
  • PEIMS EDIT+ (legacy system) is now open for the Summer Collection. Resubmissions are due 7/25/2013.    
  • The list of districts who have been approved as Early Adopters of TSDS has been released (4/5/2013)
  • The TSDS Unique ID application was released (3/25/2013)