Frequently asked questions.

Only data the district already collects under board policy and state reporting requirements: attendance, grades, discipline incidents, benchmark assessment scores, intervention attendance, and IEP/504 records where applicable. No new data category is introduced. Data is stored under the district's existing data-sharing agreement and is not shared with third parties for any purpose unrelated to providing the service. Parthion operates under FERPA (34 CFR Part 99) and the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA).

The criteria are drawn from established federal and research sources, not from Parthion. Early warning indicator thresholds derive from the U.S. Department of Education's Early Warning Systems work and decades of dropout-prevention research. Intervention thresholds are pulled from the National Center on Intensive Intervention's decision rules. The intervention library is drawn from the What Works Clearinghouse. The district's I&RS committee retains the authority to tune local thresholds.

A "flag" in Parthion is a visual indicator on a dashboard — not a classification or a determination. It is the equivalent of a teacher noticing a pattern across systems. Before any action is taken — referral to I&RS, change in intervention, or communication to a family — a credentialed educator reviews the flag and exercises professional judgment. No automated action is taken on a student without educator review.

Yes. Override is a designed feature, not a workaround. Every recommendation includes an "override and document" option. The override is logged so the I&RS team can later review where AI recommendations and educator judgment diverged — which supports professional learning, not a punitive record.

Yes. Because Parthion does not make eligibility or placement determinations — those remain with the Child Study Team and IEP team — families retain every procedural safeguard under IDEA. Mediation, due process hearings, and complaint investigations are unchanged. Families may also request to review the data inputs that informed any I&RS decision.

Parents retain all FERPA rights, including the right to inspect education records and to challenge their accuracy. Because Parthion does not collect new data — it organizes data the district is already required to maintain — the district will publish a clear notice of how the platform is used and a procedure for parents who wish to limit how their child's data is presented to staff via the platform.

Parthion welcomes — and districts may require — independent third-party review. The platform is built to comply with FERPA, SOPIPA, and applicable state student-data-privacy statutes, and is being submitted for 1EdTech Data Privacy Certification. Disproportionality monitoring is itself a built-in feature: the platform actively monitors whether intervention recommendations are equitable across racial, ethnic, ELL, and disability subgroups and surfaces any disparity for district review.

Data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256). Access is role-based and audit-logged. The district's data-sharing agreement specifies breach notification timelines consistent with applicable state law. By reducing the number of disconnected systems each educator logs into, Parthion can reduce — not expand — the district's overall cybersecurity exposure relative to a fragmented technology stack.

Oversight should sit with the administrator who already oversees I&RS, MTSS, and special education — typically the Director of Curriculum and Instruction or the Director of Special Services. Parthion provides training and certification for designated district administrators and welcomes a formal governance structure documented in board policy.