Texas Education Agency Responsibilities

The Texas Education Agency is responsible for:

1.       Facilitating the instructional process;

2.       Explaining the overall data requirements to ESC personnel; and

3.       Assisting ESCs in understanding the data requirements.

4.       Supporting the ESCs during the PEIMS and TSDS Submissions.

 

To facilitate the data validation process, TEA provides the ESCs, software vendors, and LEAs with a standard data validation and reporting system. The Ed-Fi Core and Texas Core Extension XML Schemas and validation reports,available through the Education Data Warehouse (EDW), ensure consistent use of business rules for data validation. Changes or additions to the TEDS can be incorporated through modifications to the business rules.

Specifically, TEA provides:

·         A common XML schema

·         Data reporting requirements

·         Data Validation criteria

·         Code tables

·         Data Validation Reports and

·         User documentation and training to each Regional ESC.

 

There are three data validation error levels:

1.   Fatal error - Indicates a critical error in the data. Neither an LEA nor an ESC can mark data “complete” with fatal error(s). Data with a fatal error(s) will not be accepted by TEA for any TSDS collection and must be corrected.

2.     Special warning error - Indicates a discrepancy in the data that must be scrutinized carefully. In unusual situations, the data is correct.

3.    Warning error - Indicates a possible error or inconsistency. A Warning error must be reviewed for data accuracy.