IBM Wins Bid To Build Data System for Schools

IBM has won an $80 million competitively bid contract to develop a new data system for the Department of Education over five years. The system will gather data on New York's 1.1 million students and make it accessible online to principals, teachers, and eventually parents and students, said the department's chief accountability officer, James Liebman.

A cornerstones of the administration's overhaul of schools, the system will assist newly empowered principals and help the department judge performance.