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When students, parents, educators, and policymakers have the right information to make decisions, students achieve their best.

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12/01/2025

For 20 years, DQC has been the nation’s voice for using data to provide everyone, from students to governors, with the information they need to make education and workforce decisions.

This milestone is about more than history—it’s about the future we’re building together.

🎥 Hear from our partners and join us in celebrating 20 years of the Data Quality Campaign:

For two decades, DQC has worked alongside educators, advocates, policymakers, and families to make data work. As we mark our 20th anniversary, we’re reflecti...

10/23/2025

Our latest brief breaks down what it really costs to build and maintain a high-quality SLDS and how states can use smart funding strategies, effective governance, and skilled staff to make data work for people.

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

05/19/2025

When connected to a robust SLDS, UI wage data can enable insights into the outcomes of state workforce and education programs. Find recommendations for state and federal action that can drive UI wage data enhancements in our resource:

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

05/15/2025

Policymakers across the country are seeking to better understand credentials of value. Enhanced unemployment insurance (UI) wage data can help bridge information gaps by providing a fuller picture of education to workforce outcomes. Learn more:

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

03/27/2025

Our latest resource is a comprehensive landscape of the data ecosystem related to postsecondary access, completion, and ROI. It unpacks leaders’ data needs, current challenges, and how states can improve their SLDSs and use data to support students.

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

03/11/2025

With better-matched data across the education and workforce spectrum, state leaders can provide higher-quality education to workforce information so that decisionmakers can select and invest in education and training opportunities that meet educational, financial, and geographic needs.

Our state implementation guide, created in partnership with DISC at WestEd answers questions about how this work is possible for states and offers considerations for state leaders as they pursue this work across the education to workforce spectrum.

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 improve matching and data quality within its SLDS.

01/29/2025

In this op-ed for The 74, DQC President and CEO Jennifer Bell-Ellwanger discusses key questions about data for Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon's confirmation hearing.

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

11/13/2024

Equity in education requires actionable data. State leaders must provide educators with the tools they need to track the outcomes that matter most to communities. Read more in our latest resource:

To make decisions about how to support all students, they need access to data that shines a light on the education experiences and outcomes that matter most to their communities.

10/18/2024

Better data is critical to improving the early childhood ecosystem. Many states have initiated promising efforts to improve their data capacity, but more comprehensive efforts are needed. Read more in DQC’s latest resource:

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

10/09/2024

K–12 students need in- and out-of-school support to meet their academic and non-academic needs. Our new resource highlights what's possible when SLDSs are designed to connect school and district leaders to the data they need to ensure their students thrive. http://dataqualitycampaign.org/resource/connect-school-and-district-leaders-to-the-information-they-need-to-ensure-that-their-students-thrive/

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

07/31/2024

Recently, we sat down with some of our partners to get their perspectives on what it means to have access to quality data to support their work, their real-world experiences using data, and the challenges they face in accessing that data.

States need data infrastructure that meets the needs of all their education and workforce communities, including the advocacy and nonprofit organizations tha...

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