Montana Office of Public Instruction

Montana's OPI and Montana State University will examine Montana's Early Warning System (EWS) to predict student dropout risk and risk factors for students in grades 3-12.

The Montana Office of Public Instruction will implement the Montana Innovation through Infrastructure (MITI) project under priority 1 of the Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant for FY 2019.

The Montana Office of Public Instruction requests $3,483,164 over four years to create a Montana data-use culture under the Evaluation and Research Priority of the Statewide, Longitudinal Data Systems Grant for FY 2015. We like to believe that our students are college and career ready, but the fact is, we aren’t sure.

The Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) requests $3,977,861 over three years for implementation of College and Career Ready Montana under Priority # 3 of the Statewide, Longitudinal Data Systems Grant for FY 2012 to link the OPI’s K-12 data warehouse and the Montana University System (MUS) postsecondary data warehouse. We like to believe that our students are college and career ready, but the fact is, we aren’t sure.

The Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) seeks a $5,798,457 grant from IES to establish a data warehouse. This four year grant will lay the foundation for a longitudinal data system by accomplishing five objectives related to the data warehouse, each with its own benefits to Montana.

In this project, the researchers employed a continuous improvement process to support the literacy skills of middle and high school students. Although literacy programs such as the Montana Striving Readers Program (MSRP) had made progress toward improving the literacy skills of elementary and middle school students, the MT-OPI remained concerned regarding the large numbers of Montana economically disadvantaged students and American Indian students entering secondary schools with insufficient...