Data Quality Campaign

Each year, DQC analyzes state legislation that governs the collection and use of education and workforce data in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Our latest resource shares state legislative trends in 2024 and key state legislative efforts to enhance state data systems. The highlights: - Colorado enacted a workforce development law that codifies cross-agency data governance and sets the stage for improved policy decisions and equitable access to data; - States took steps to enhance their data systems, including exploring how to improve existing frameworks to support evidence-based research and providing dedicated funding to ensure sustainability; and - Legislators enacted policies that use data to help smooth pathways from high school to whatever comes next—whether that is college or career. Read the full resource on our website: https://lnkd.in/gHADrTbm

DQC Board Chair Morgan Polikoff, together with the Center on Reinventing Public Education, analyzed state report cards and found that states are still not providing data to parents in a way that is easy to find, use, and understand. When data is unavailable, students and families don't have a full picture of the information they need to make critical decisions about education pathways. https://lnkd.in/eZY_3agv

Excited and encouraged to see these new actions from the White House on using state data systems to support student success and address chronic absence! https://lnkd.in/gSKm7xBS

In a new piece for the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), Paige Kowalski shares why state boards should champion laws that codify cross-agency governance in order to promote interagency collaboration while ensuring student data privacy. Her article covers: 🔎 What data governance is; ✅ Best practices for policymakers looking to establish data governance; ⚖️ States that have set examples through their data governance legislation; and 🏛️ Recommendations for actions State Boards of Education can take. https://lnkd.in/gNA2gqDA

Chronically absent students need someone to know they are missing classes, understand why, and find solutions to address their unique needs. Attendance data that is disaggregated by geographical and demographic variables, like home location, grade level, and socioeconomic status, can help shine a light on all of the potential reasons for chronic absenteeism. Explore how some states are working to address this critical issue in our latest blog:

Chronic absenteeism is a growing challenge, but with timely and disaggregated data decisionmakers can work to address this issue early. Our latest blog post explores how states like Connecticut and Rhode Island are using up-to-date attendance data to improve student outcomes:

In a new post on the ALI Insights blog, Sara Schapiro is joined by Kate Tromble of the Data Quality Campaign to explain how the NEED Act would modernize Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems. Better data ➡ better outcomes for kids! https://lnkd.in/eP5G3znk

"Our communities will provide the vision. The state will provide the support" -Maryland Governor Wes Moore on Maryland's ENOUGH Initiative I was so happy to talk about legal, ethical, and privacy-focused data practices on StriveTogether's webinar today about Maryland's new grant program to support schools and community partners in their work to address child poverty. https://lnkd.in/e33qe2jf

📣Community voting for #SXSWEDU is now open! DQC needs your vote so we can bring our panel on AI’s potential to improve education and workforce data quality and use to SXSWEDU 2025. In this session, our panelists (Paige Kowalski, Kate Akers, and Jessica Cunningham) will discuss: - How state leaders must invest in robust, modernized statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDSs) to capitalize on AI; - The many ways SLDSs combined with AI can support efforts to use data to drive systemic change, economic mobility, and student success; and - How some states are already using AI within their SLDSs to strengthen data linkages, generate deeper insights, and enhance data privacy. Cast your vote today: https://lnkd.in/ecBcxPaX

California’s Cradle-to-Career (C2C) Data System continues to raise the bar for how a statewide longitudinal data system should be designed with people in mind. From the beginning, C2C made a commitment to ensure that the voices of all stakeholders would be heard when developing the data system, and now three years later we are seeing that commitment come to fruition. Our blog post highlights specific public engagement actions that we’ve seen so far, and how California leadership is setting an example for other states to follow.