Client: Head Start Bureau

Challenge: Based on President Bush's "Good Start, Grow Smart" initiative, the National Reporting System assesses all 4 and 5 year old children in Head Start to measure their educational progress. The system needed to be able to support over 30,000 assessors, 40,000 teachers in close to 19,000 different locations around the United States and territories as they assess over 500,000 children twice per year. Xtria was required to create a Web-based computer application that would be able to collect this large amount of data, manage the logistics of the project and provide reporting capabilities back to the educators and administrators throughout the nation.

Solution: Xtria analyzed, designed, developed and continues to host and manage the Computer-based Reporting System. Xtria was able to meet the government's stringent privacy and security requirements with innovative encryption schemes and layered security systems. Xtria has successfully created a system that is easy to use for close to 80,000 unique users, is maintained in both Spanish and English and we provide high quality technical assistance for over 7,000 support calls every year.