Why Leader?

Leader Services has been providing solutions to state education agencies for over 15 years and solving the technology needs of other types of organizations large and small since 1968.

  • In Pennsylvania, Leader provides solutions for Medicaid reimbursement, IDEA Compliance Monitoring, contingency funding for special education, federal program monitoring, Individualized Education Programs and related document management, and numerous custom web applications for state and local education agency needs.
  • Leader has provided a comprehensive web-based solution for compliance monitoring to Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education since 2007.
  • The US Virgin Islands became the latest user of our ACM solution in Fall 2008.
  • Leader has developed a reporting system for the use of restraints for the PA Department of Education and PA LEAs. Each time a restraint is used, PA LEAs log on to a secure web-based application and report it to PDE, enabling the state education agency to review and track this important concern

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The US Virgin Islands

Woman looking at laptop St. Croix and St. Thomas, two school districts in the Virgin Islands, began using Leader's Advanced Compliance Monitoring system in the fall of 2008.

As Leader Services’ Programmer Analyst George J. Schneider explains, "ACMontheWeb is a great tool for the Virgin Islands Department of Education because they can immediately review their schools’ self-assessments online and notify the school of non-compliant issues before an onsite monitoring. And because the system tracks longitudinal data, the Virgin Islands gets a long-term picture of how their schools are performing."

Using a web-based system, state education agencies and school districts conduct much of the compliance monitoring process online, which increases the efficiency of the monitoring process while saving on postal, printing, and other costs. Leader’s ACM system was customized to meet the unique needs of the Virgin Islands’ DOE.

School districts use the system to respond to procedural questions and to compare their district data against state averages. They respond to student file review questionnaires, the results of which are rolled up districtwide and statewide for compliance review. The state education agency then creates corrective action plans for each district online, which the school districts review and address. This corrective action process continues until all issues are resolved. Among its other advantages, the application provides critical data required by the Annual Performance Reports (APR) and State Performance Plan (SPP); provides more effective and efficient communication with LEAs on necessary improvement areas; and eliminates the need to distribute complex client software across multiple platforms and environments.

Advanced Compliance Monitoring is offered both as a hosted, Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, mitigating the need for the overhead of dedicated servers and the need for additional information technology staff for clients, and as an installed solution at client data centers.

Leader Services has provided a compliance monitoring solution for the Pennsylvania Department of Education since 1997 (since 2001 on the web), and since 2007 for Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Division of Special Education.