1. Make Data Work for Students:
New Policy Recommendations from the Data Quality Campaign
Bernice Butler, Senior Associate
Taryn Hochleitner, Senior Associate

2. Today’s Conversation
Overview of DQC’s new policy recommendations
Discussion of ESSA opportunities
Summary of state student data privacy legislation
Questions

3. DQC’s changing focus
DQC has shifted focus to ensuring everyone involved in education has the information they need, while still advocating for system infrastructure and policy development to support this goal
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Building Systems
Developing policies and practices to support use
Ensuring everyone has the information they need, capacity to understand it

4. THE BIG IDEA

5. Four Policy Priorities to Make
Data Work for Students

6. Measure What Matters: What State Policymakers Should Do
Be clear about what you want to achieve for students and have the data to ensure it gets done.
What State Policymakers Should Do
Develop a set of policy and practice questions that will set the priorities for state action and determine the information needed to answer those questions.
Link and govern data across all agencies critical to student success, from early childhood and K-12 to postsecondary and the workforce, including other state agencies that support students (e.g., child welfare).
Develop, calculate, and share indicators based on longitudinal data, in addition to measures based on annual statewide assessments, that demonstrate progress toward stated goals.

7. Make Data Use Possible:
Provide teachers and leaders the flexibility, training, and support they need to answer their questions and take action.
What State Policymakers Should Do
Use the bully pulpit and allocate resources (people, time, money, and technology) to prioritize using data to inform decisionmaking at the state level.
Ensure that leaders responsible for student out comes have the feedback data they need from other systems to effectively serve students.
Support local education agencies (based on their unique capacity and needs) by providing the flexibility to use people, time, money, and technology to prioritize data use to inform action and improve outcomes.
Enact the necessary policies, practices, and conditions to ensure that every educator can use data effectively.

8. Be Transparent and Earn Trust:
Ensure that every community understands how its schools and students are doing, why data is valuable, and how it is protected and used.
What State Policymakers Should Do
Provide the public timely, high-quality, relevant, and easy-to-find data.
Communicate the value of data to support student learning.
Communicate the types of data the state collects and how the data is protected.

9. Guarantee Access and Protect Privacy:
Provide teachers and parents timely information on their students and make sure it is kept safe.
What State Policymakers Should Do
Ensure that those closest to students have access to student-level data that is tailored to their needs and presented in context.
Intentionally design and implement policies and practices to protect the privacy and confidentiality of student and teacher data and ensure that systems are secure.

10. Policy Alignment Matters
Federal Gov’t
State
When all three levels of government work together, families, educators, and decisionmakers get clarity about how to make data work for students.
District Leaders

11. Federal & District Policy Recommendations

12. Opportunities in the Every Student Succeeds Act

13. ESSA: Four Key Takeaways
This is an opportunity to reset the conversation
This is an opportunity to use data in different ways
Get your data house in order; Meet your data system where it is
Engage stakeholders and plan thoughtfully

14. Using ESSA to get Data in the Hands of People
Parents and advocates are empowered with the law’s renewed commitment to ensuring that quality information is publicly available
High-quality public reports will be a critical tool to ensure states are held accountable for the success of every student

15. Using ESSA to get Data in the Hands of People
Better track and report how well mobile students—those who are homeless, in the foster care system, or military connected—are doing
Report data in a more detailed, cross-tabulated way
The U.S. Department of Education must help interested states and districts disaggregate data on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students to help improve their outcomes

16. Using ESSA to get Data in the Hands of People
Report school rates of chronic absence on annual report cards
Report postsecondary enrollment
Provide all students with access to effective educators; define what effective teaching and leading looks like within your state
Include the per-pupil expenditures of federal, state, and local funds for each LEA and school, disaggregated by source of funds

17. State Privacy Legislation Update

18. 2014 State Legislative Activity
110 bills related to student data privacy in 36 states.
27 laws passed in 20 states.

19. 2015 State Legislative Activity
188 bills related to student data privacy in 47 states.
28 laws passed in 15 states.

20. 2016 State Legislative Activity
112 bills related to student data privacy in 34 states.
16 laws passed in 14 states.

21. Summary of State Legislative Activity
410 bills related to student data privacy in 49 states.
71 laws passed in 36 states.

22. Student Data Privacy: State Legislative Trends
2014: regulating government collection of student data
2015: regulating student data collection by education technology providers
2016: continuing to govern service providers and revisiting existing privacy laws

23. Coming Soon….

24. Upcoming DQC Releases and Publications
Opportunities to Make Data Work for Students in the Every Student Succeeds Act
State Report Card Analysis
Parent Infographic and video (SPANISH)
DQC’s Presidential Transition Memo

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