What is EPIMS?
EPIMS stands for the Education Personnel Information Management System, a new data collection being developed by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to collect individual educator data from all public school districts and charter schools. A pilot group submitted data in the fall of 2006 and the collection will be expanded statewide in the fall of 2007. Although EPIMS will require districts to submit previously uncollected data on individual educators, it will replace the current District and School Staffing Report, which collects staff information in the aggregate. In subsequent years, it will also replace Schedule 13, the school finance office’s staffing report, which collects staff information in full time equivalents (FTEs). The data collected will be linked with the licensure data the Department currently maintains in ELAR, the Educator Licensure and Recruitment database.
