Seriously data-driven decision making

As states approach the funding cliff marking the end of federal stimulus help for education, school districts will be feeling more financial pain than they're experiencing now. But there's good news amid the bad: Big city districts are showing schools nationwide a way to save money and improve efficiency by working together. They've created the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) system, which allows each of the nation's largest urban school districts to compare the performance of business operations, finance, human resources, and information technology across all 65 of the largest urban school districts in the nation. As a result, districts are saving millions of dollars.