Subject: PPS/CMU stats course paperwork
From: "Friss, Deborah" <[email-masked]>
To: Brian Junker <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Greene, Steven" <[email-masked]>, "Dwyer, Theodore" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:19:19 +0000

Brian,
Ted and I had a chance to talk about this today.  As you know, we all want this project to happen and plan to sign the EBA. When we are ready to sign, DREA will be the organization and either Ted or Steven will sign as sponsor.

Ted raised the issue around the financial requirements detailed in the EBA.  let you know you emailed us about that - and that this would be at $0. Is it possible to include this within the agreement, to explicit call out the "no charge"?

When we reviewed the EBA, we see it covers many of the same requirements included in our data agreements - such as the purpose of the project, the scope of the work, destruction of data, etc. We see mention of FERPA - but it's the context of the college students, not the PPS ones. In order to ensure protection of our students and demonstrate due diligence from our organization around our part of FERPA, we'll want to ask the students to sign an additional agreement before we share the data.

We'll prepare this; it will be short and contain these provisions:

  *   Student data cannot be provided to any other person (we know you mention this is your agreement, but we want to explicitly call out our student data)
  *   Student data can only be used for purposes of this course project as stated in the agreement
  *   This study and any reporting should be conducted in a manner that does not permit personal identification of parents and students, by anyone other than representatives of the PPS with legitimate interests (for instance, per RERPA and privacy laws, data should be reported for any that contains less than 11 students)
  *   All student data will be destroyed upon completion of the project/course (again, this is important enough that we want to reinforce this.

I'm hoping this need won't create any new issues at your end. But please let the program director know our intent is to complete this EBA. It seems that it would be easier for us to add this additional document than to ask for changes within the EBA (other than the $0 call out).

Best,
Deb

Deborah Friss

Director of Research and Evaluation

Pittsburgh Public Schools

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Thanks for the update Deb.

The program director will need the EPA, or a clear guarantee that it will be coming, by EOB Friday.

best,

-BJ