1. Sarah Martinez Patricia Meyertholen June 23, 2016
Migrant Student Information Exchange (MSIX) Regulations: Administrative and Usage Requirements
Sarah Martinez
Patricia Meyertholen
June 23, 2016
The mission of the Office of Migrant Education is to provide excellent leadership, technical assistance, and financial support to improve the educational opportunities and academic success of migratory children, youth, agricultural workers, fishers, and their families.

2. Presenters
Sarah Martinez Migrant Education Program (MEP) Policy Lead Patricia Meyertholen MSIX Project Manager

3. MSIX Regulations Webinars
May 10, 2016 – MSIX final regulations published in the Federal Register. Third in a series of three webinars on the MSIX regulations: May 26 : Overview and Definitions June 2: Timelines and Data Collection June 23: Administrative and Usage Requirements

4. Agenda MSIX Regulations Review
MSIX Administrative and Usage Requirements:
Use of Consolidated Student Record
Data Quality
Data Protection
Data Correction
Resources
Questions/Discussion

5. Legal Reference
Section 1304(b)(3) requires State Education Agencies (SEAs) to promote interstate and intrastate coordination by providing for educational continuity through the timely transfer of pertinent school records (including health information) when children move from one school to another, whether or not the move occurs during the regular school year.
Statute Part C of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, as amended by No Child Left Behind Act of (NCLB) – Sections 1304(b)(3) and 1308(b)
Code of Federal
Regulations 34 CFR , (c) and
Guidance Non-Regulatory Guidance for Title I, Part C, Education of Migratory Children: Chapter VI, D (2010)

6. MSIX regulations review

7. MSIX Regulations
This electronic exchange of educational and health information according to standard timelines and procedures will help ensure that migratory children succeed academically.
The full potential of the system will only be realized if it contains complete, accurate, and up-to-date information that’s readily accessible, and used on a regular basis.

8. Benefits
The regulations help ensure the prompt availability of educational and health information of migratory children to facilitate:
Timely school enrollment
Appropriate grade and course placement
Accrual of secondary course credits
Participation in the MEP
Ultimately will help the Department to determine more accurate migratory child counts and meet other MEP reporting requirements

9. SEA Requirements
As a condition of receiving a MEP grant, each SEA must:
Collect, maintain, and submit current and updated Minimum Data Elements (MDEs) within established timeframes
Ensure that data submitted to MSIX are accurate and complete, with appropriate security safeguards in place
Establish procedures for using, and requiring each of its subgrantees to use, MSIX Consolidated Student Records
Establish procedures for MSIX data correction

10. General Data Submission Requirements
SEAs must submit MDEs applicable to the child’s age and grade level (i.e., “applicable MDEs”) for all migratory children that the SEA considers eligible for the MEP, regardless of the type of school in which the child is enrolled (e.g., public, private, or home school), or whether the child is enrolled in any school.

11. MSIX Regulations Timeline
May 10, 2016: Publication of final regulations
June 9, 2016: (effective date) States must adhere to all timelines for subsequent data submissions. States must also adhere to all requirements related to data quality, data protection, use of records, and data correction requests
September 7, 2016: (90 calendar days after effective date) States must complete start-up data submissions

12. Administrative and usage requirements

13. Areas of Focus
Administrative and usage requirements center around the following areas in which SEAs must develop written procedures, guidance and training:
Use of Consolidated Student Record
Data quality
Data protection
Data correction
Response to parents, guardians, and migratory children
Response to another SEA
Response to the Department

14. Use Consolidated Student Records

15. Use of Consolidated Student Records
Each SEA must:
(1) Use, and require each of its local operating agencies (LOAs) to use, the Consolidated Student Record for all migratory children who have changed residence to a new school district within the State or in another State;
(2) Encourage LEAs that are not LOAs receiving MEP funds to use the Consolidated Student Record for all migratory children described above; and
(3) Establish procedures, develop and disseminate guidance, and provide training in the use of Consolidated Student Records to all authorized users

16. MSIX DATA quality AND DATA PROTECTION

17. MSIX Data Quality
Each SEA must: (1) Use, and require each of its LOAs to use, reasonable and appropriate methods to ensure that all data submitted to MSIX are accurate and complete; and (2) Respond promptly, and ensure that each of its LOAs responds promptly, to any request by the Department for information needed to meet the Department’s responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of data in MSIX in accordance with the Privacy Act.

18. MSIX Data Protection Each SEA must:
Enter into and carry out its responsibilities in accordance with an IA (MOU), ISA, and other IT agreements required by the Secretary;
Establish and implement written procedures to protect the integrity, security, and confidentiality of Consolidated Student Records;
Require authorized users to complete the User Application Form (or SEA documentation that contains the same information); and
Retain user access documentation for three years after terminating user’s access

19. Procedures for MSIX data correction by parents, guardians, and migratory children

20. Data Correction Requests
SEA must establish and implement written procedures that allow a parent or guardian of a migratory child, or a migratory child, to ask the SEA to correct or determine the correctness of MSIX data.

21. Response to Parents, Guardians, and Migratory Children
(i) Within 30 calendar days of receipt of a data correction request from a parent, guardian, or migratory child, an SEA must--
(A) Send a written or electronic acknowledgement to the requester;
(B) Investigate the request;
(C) Decide whether to revise the data as requested; and
(D) Send the requester a written or electronic notice of the SEA’s decision.

22. Response to Parents, Guardians, and Migratory Children
(ii) If an SEA determines that data it submitted previously to MSIX should be corrected, the SEA must submit the revised data to MSIX within four working days of its decision to correct the data. An SEA is not required to notify MSIX if it decides not to revise the data as requested.

23. Response to Parents, Guardians, and Migratory Children
(iii) If a parent, guardian, or migratory child asks an SEA to correct or determine the correctness of data that was submitted to MSIX by another SEA:
Within 4 working days of receipt, the SEA must send the request to the SEA that submitted the data to MSIX.
An SEA that receives an MSIX data correction request from another SEA must respond as if it received the data correction request directly from the parent, guardian, or migratory child.

24. Response to SEAs and the Department
An SEA or LOA that receives a request for information from an SEA that is responding to a parent’s, guardian’s or child’s data correction request must respond in writing within 10 working days.
An SEA must respond in writing within 10 working days to a request from the Department for information needed by the Department to respond to an individual’s request to correct or amend a record.

25. Timelines associated with data correction REQUESTS

26. Scenario Action Required Timeline
SEA receives a parent/guardian/child’s request to correct or amend data the SEA submitted to MSIX.
(The request may come directly from the parent/guardian/child, or may have been forwarded from another SEA.)
Send written or electronic acknowledgement;
Investigate the request;
Decide whether to revise the data as requested; and
Send written or electronic notice of the SEA’s decision.
Within 30 calendar days of receipt of request
SEA receives a request from parent/guardian/child to correct or amend MSIX data that was submitted by another SEA
Send the parent/guardian/child’s request to the relevant SEA
Within 4 working days of receipt of request from parent/guardian/child
After investigating a parent/guardian/child’s request, the SEA decides a revision to MSIX data is necessary
Submit revised data to MSIX
Within 4 working days of decision to revise data
SEA or LOA receives a request for information from another SEA or the Department.
(The other SEA or the Department is responding to a data correction request from parent/guardian/child.)
Send the necessary information in writing to the other SEA or the Department.
Within 10 working days of receipt of request from SEA or Department

27. MSIX Resources

28. MSIX Resources MSIX Data Quality Grants (to be awarded by 9/30/2016)
Training: Online and Refresher Training Materials
Brochures: English and Spanish
Manuals: User and Reports
MSIX SMART Sheets (one pagers on topics such as reports, security)
File Transmission Assistance/Testing
Child Count Reconciliation
Data Quality Initiative
MSIX Webinars: e.g., MSIX Training Toolkit, Enhanced Data Ingestion, MSIX Data Quality Grant Awards
Presentations: e.g., MSIX for Parents, MSIX Overview, Cybersecurity
MSIX Help Desk: ,

29. Questions/discussion

30. Contacts Sarah Martinez Sarah.Martinez@ed.gov 202-260-1334
Patricia Meyertholen
MSIX Help Desk
The mission of the Office of Migrant Education is to provide excellent leadership, technical assistance, and financial support to improve the educational opportunities and academic success of migratory children, youth, agricultural workers, fishers, and their families.