Bipartisan Policy Center and Data Quality Campaign

State policymakers should purposefully shape the design of their SLDS with the intended function(s) in mind.

As states continue to build and modernize SLDSs, ensuring responsible researcher access is essential to maximizing the systems’ value for communities and decisionmakers.

Twenty Years of DQC For two decades, the Data Quality Campaign has been the preeminent voice advocating for transforming the role of data to ensure that people can make education and workforce decisio...

DQC analyzed four robust statewide longitudinal data systems to find out what it costs to build and maintain these critical systems.

This spring, Texas legislators passed a law to develop an ECIDS designed to give policymakers, state agency staff, and other early childhood decisionmakers the information they need to understand how ...

People, including state policymakers, school leaders, families, college administrators, employers, and the public, should have a say in how their state provides access to education and workforce data

Streamlined admissions processes can reduce administrative burden and help students pursue their goals, but must be supported by robust data systems.

Enhanced UI wage data can equip leaders with a data source that provides a fuller picture of their workforce.

Deep funding cuts in FY25 and FY26 budgets will impact student aid, job training programs, and the federal data needed to run them.

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Students and their families need clear information in order to plan for high school and make decisions about what postsecondary options to pursue.

Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week

The so what on how recent federal actions are impacting the Department of Education and data privacy.

DQC remains committed to working across states to support the field as it navigates how to move forward without federal-level research and a lack of comparable data across states.

State data systems that provide robust, user-friendly information can bridge information gaps and improve postsecondary education and workforce outcomes.

As states continue their work to get young people through school and into postsecondary education and the workforce, they need the federal government to be a partner in that effort, not a hindrance.

Driver’s license data offers a single verifiable record that can be used to fill gaps in other records and accurately connect data across sectors, enabling a state to resolve inconsistent data and imp...

State leaders are creating initiatives that make enrolling in postsecondary education and workforce programs simpler for students who meet certain requirements.

Losing NPSAS data will undermine evidence-based policymaking, weaken accountability measures, and limit analysis of student success and workforce pathways.

The public workforce system provides a variety of supports and opportunities, but needs data to do its work effectively.

Bell-Ellwanger: With NAEP scores down & absenteeism up, Linda McMahon must make her policies on data, assessment, transparency & student privacy clear

Everyone should have access to the information they need to ensure that K–12 students receive necessary support in and out of school.

Better data is critical to improving the early childhood ecosystem. States must do more comprehensive work to support better data systems in the future.

In 2025, DQC hopes to see states build on previous years' progress by continuing to codify and establish cross-agency data governance, easing transitions between high school and postsecondary pathways...

DQC’s 2024 poll found that adult learners need data to explore career enhancement options, but the data is hard to access or find.

DQC’s 2024 poll found that early childhood administrators want better data, but are overburdened by government reporting requirements.