LOS ANGELES – A new integrated computer system intended to track Los Angeles students has grown into an epic boondoggle that has cost taxpayers over $130 million, so far.

The system, dubbed MISIS for My Integrated Student Information System, is the product of a consent decree to settle a class-action lawsuit against the district filed decades ago over its shoddy student record keeping. The lawsuit alleges the district’s disorganized records system led to lost records, and violated special education students’ rights, the LA Times reports.

The district agreed to develop a comprehensive centralized student records system, a process that began in 2003. But when officials rolled out MISIS this year, it overloaded the district’s servers, and was plagued with hundreds of bugs that will take a very long time to fix, the news site reports.

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“More than 600 fixes or enhancements are needed in the software, and there are ‘data quality and integrity issues’ that include grades, assignments and even students disappearing from the system, Supt. John Deasy acknowledged last week in a letter,” the LA Times reports.

“It could take a year to work out kinks in the system just to enter grades, he said.”

The obvious result is chaos.

Some students sat for weeks waiting to be assigned classes, while others were left to wonder whether they will have the classes and transcripts they need to graduate high school and move on to college, the news site reports.

The problems with the system have gotten so bad that a judge ordered state education officials to step in. A court-appointed monitor is expected to issue a report today detailing the district’s progress in implementing the system, the LA Times reports.

The implementation, however, is only the latest snafu with the system over the course of its decade-long development, which was initially scheduled to conclude in 2007.

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The district first contracted with Maximus Inc. to build the system and spent $112 million to get it done, but it hasn’t happened. A flurry of legal wrangling over its development prompted the district to sue Maximus, as well as Harris Education Consulting, which bought Maximus’ education division.

The district complained the companies “not only consistently failed to meet deadlines, they also delivered shoddy software releases that are plagued with major defects or bugs,” while the companies alleged “internal dysfunction” in the district resulted in “constantly changing requirements” that dragged down the project, the LA Times reports.

In 2011, LA school officials decided instead to adapt a computer system used by Fresno schools using in-house information technology workers to adapt it for use in Los Angeles, at a cost of an additional $29 million. The district eventually settled its legal dispute with Harris Education Consulting by paying the company $3.75 million. Taxpayers also spent $2.3 million on outside attorneys to work on the case, according to the news site.

So for now, the multi-million dollar student record software is virtually useless as the district’s IT department scrambles to make it work.

Meanwhile, school officials are tracking student grades, attendance and other information by paper and pen, with no clear picture on when MISIS will become operational, or whether taxpayers will ever get anything worthwhile for their money.

“The whole system needs to work,” attorney Robert Meyers, who represented students in the federal class-action lawsuit that prompted the project, told the LA Times. “Having an integrated system allows someone to see the big picture.”