1. Resources for Building Longitudinal Data Sets Kathy Hebbeler ECO at SRI International ECO Conference Call Septemer 2009

2. For more information, see Incorporating Early Childhood into Longitudinal Data Systems: What, Why and How –Kathy Hebbeler, ECO at SRI International –Lynne Kahn, ECO at FPG Presented at the OSEP Leadership Conference, Washington, DC, August 2009 On ECO web site: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~eco/pages/archive.cfm

3. Early Childhood Outcomes Center 3 Building Longitudinal Data Sets Need a data set that includes general and special education* Goal: Include data on young children with disabilities (starting at birth) in the data set * because of the movement in and out of special education

4. Early Childhood Outcomes Center 4 Resources Data Quality Campaign www.dataqualitycampaign.org DQC just beginning to focus on early childhood

5. Early Childhood Outcomes Center 5 Funding Sources for Longitudinal Data Systems

6. Early Childhood Outcomes Center 6 Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grants (IES) $250 million Grants are for 3 to 5 years for up to $9 million; due November 19, 2009 2005 – 14 states; 2007 – 12; 2009 – 27 Many states planning to include preschool http://nces.ed.gov/programs/slds/

7. SLDS Features Matrix http://nces.ed.gov/Programs/SLDS/summary.asp Is your state planning to include: Special Education – IEP Data? Pre-Kindergarten (beyond Special Education)?

9. Early Childhood Outcomes Center 9 Other funding opportunities State Incentive Grants (i.e., Race to the Top) - $4.35 billion Title I Funds - $13 billion Head Start - $1 billion –State Advisory Councils on Early Childhood Education –“develop recommendations for a unified data collection system for public early childhood programs and services throughout the state”

10. Early Childhood Outcomes Center 10 See Data Quality Campaign’s Roadmap http://www.dataqualitycampaign.org/files/DQC_roadmap_singlepg-rev.pdf for more information.

11. Early Childhood Outcomes Center 11 Extraordinary Opportunity Special education leadership needs to: Work to ensure Part C and 619 are/will be part of the state’s early childhood data system Work to ensure early childhood data are/will be linked to K-12