October 12, :30 am 1

Goals Provide an update on upcoming changes to INOW including implementation dates Provide a forum to discuss experiences with the new Direct Certification process 2

STI Release Schedule Fall Release – Late October 2011 Winter Release – January 2012 Summer Release – July

STI Updates Correction of matching criteria used to produce district match file – Implemented via hotfix 10/5/2011 (HF00725) Correction of the logic used in the creation of the district match file to now use the current INOW address for matched students – Winter Release ( ) Correction of the logic used in the creation of the district match file to now match against “enrolled” children only – Winter Release ( ) Creation of a report providing Highest Daily Membership – Winter Release ( ) 4

STI Updates Cont’d Locking of Direct Cert status records - Fall Release (Hotfix) Creation of a summary report of F/R/P children w/ Free broken down by DC type – Winter Release ( ) Addition of functionality to allow for the changing of a student’s DC status from “4 – DC” to “5 – Parent Declined” – Winter Release (Hotfix) Correction of a bug that prevented a student’s certification status from moving during an in state transfer – Fall Release (Hotfix) 5

STI Updates Cont’d Addition of functionality to maintain a student’s DC status for 13 months – Summer 2012 ( ) Standardization of a format for data received from POS systems – Summer 2012 ( ) DC push to IState – Summer 2012 ( ) Identification of Extended Eligibility students in INOW – Summer 2012 ( ) Expanded Coding for DC children – Summer 2012 ( ) 6

Q & A 7