How will schools and districts benefit from the SIF Association?
A. With the Schools Interoperability Framework, educators can select the best-of-breed software for their schools’ information technology infrastructures. They can be confident that an industry-supported technical blueprint for pK-12 software ensures that the diverse instructional and administrative software applications will work seamlessly together now and in the future. The goal of SIF and the SIF Association is to help educators maximize their instructional and administrative software investments and use staff and faculty time more efficiently. Educators consistently lament the fact that financial management, administrative, library, transportation routing, instructional management and cafeteria applications do not work together. Through the SIF Association, the education software industry is working to resolve the perplexing challenge of interoperability in pK-12 schools. Accessing data from these operational systems makes it easier for schools and districts to generate reports an
