The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), will sponsor a 2-day meeting of the membership of the National Forum on Education Statistics. This will be immediately followed by the 24th Annual MIS Conference.

The 2011 MIS Conference is comprised of 3 days of concentrated information about best practices, innovative ideas, current issues, and practical how-to advice about management information systems for K-12 education. Co-sponsored by the Texas Education Agency and NCES, the MIS Conference brings together the people who work with information collection, management, transmittal, and reporting in school districts and state education agencies.

This year, the MIS Conference will offer more than 80 presentations, demonstrations, and workshops conducted by practitioners from K-12 information systems.