Migrant Student Information Exchange (MSIX)
Investment ID: 018-000001000
Overview
Program Title
Migrant Student Information Exchange (MSIX)
Description
MSIX is the technology that allows States to share educational and health information on migratory children who travel from State to State and who as a result, have student records in multiple States' information systems. MSIX works in concert with the existing migrant student information systems that States currently use to manage their migratory child data to fulfill its mission to ensure the appropriate enrollment, placement, accrual of credits and participation in the Migrant Education Program (MEP) for migratory children nationwide. The goal of the MEP is to ensure that all migratory children reach challenging academic standards and graduate with a high school diploma (or complete a HSED) that prepares them for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Associated Websites
MSIX.ED.GOV, DATAREVIEW.MSIX.ED.GOV, DR.MSIX.ED.GOV, TEST.MSIX.ED.GOV, TRAINING.MSIX.ED.GOV, TRAINING2.MSIX.ED.GOV, TRAINING3.MSIX.ED.GOV
Investment Detail
MSIX is a unique system developed in response to the Congressional mandate to facilitate the exchange of migrant student records between and amongst States. MSIX was developed as the most cost effective method to address this exchange. If MSIX was not in existence, each State would be left to enhance it's own migrant, specific database to allow for the national exchange of migrant student records. However, there would be no national standard for migrant data exchange such as provided by MSIX. The cost to implement such measures would be approximately $1M for each of the 46 States that implement migrant programs. This calculation is based on the average costs of enhancements to MSIX for the past 5 years.