When was the Education Data Warehouse (EDW) first up and running?
The EDW was built in two phases. Phase I loaded data that is housed at the Vermont Department of Education. The first data load was completed for testing and training in July 2005, and the system went ‘live’ with secure user accounts in October 2005. It has been updated with new data many times since then. Phase II of the project focused on creating local data warehouses that would supplement the data already provided by the Department of Education. The system to support local warehouses was built and put in place in the winter/spring of 2006. The first local warehouse was accessible in March 2006. Approximately a dozen VDC-member districts have created their initial local data warehouses that can function as stand-alone systems or as ones integrated with the state data.
