As some of you may remember I work for the Riverside County SELPA. It’s an organization that handles Special Ed data for 22 districts in Riverside County, CA.
Twice a year we submit a huge amount of data to the state for state and federal reporting.
Our school districts send letters out to students/parents where the student dropped out or exited last year. The state basically wants to know their education and employment status since they left Special Ed.
We barely get any letters back so this year we thought to allow parents to enter their info online. Fun and simple.
I created a small little static HTML page and jQuery for AJAX calls into a service backed by ASP.NET MVC. It allows the parent to find their student, answer the two questions and it gets saved directly into our data tables that we submit to the state.
I demoed the project last Friday morning to all the Special Ed directors. They loved it. Friday afternoon (literally hours after the demo) we got a message from CDE (California Department of Education) stating they are not collecting this information this year and we don’t need to submit it.
So I worked on another project that got scrapped. At least I got to demo it. 🙂
dude that sucks,
You know you put your lifeblood in a project to just have it scrapped. But it seems to happen a lot.
– Mike