Students at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland. The Oakland Unified School District publicly shares academic growth data for Redwood and all other schools in the district.

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Statewide Longitudinal Data System

California has launched an ambitious effort to create a data system that will track students from the cradle to career. In this section you will find stories tracking the progress in bringing together the many complex entities and data collections involved to create one coherent system.

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Work on new ‘cradle to career’ data system accelerates, amid concerns about continuing state financial support

November 16, 2020

Unlike most states, California does not have a data system to track students’ pathways from K–12 schools to college and into the workplace.

Matt Krupnick

California finally to move ahead with 'cradle to career' data system

June 25, 2019

With Gavin Newsom embracing what Jerry Brown opposed, the Legislature sets the timetable and steps for creating a longitudinal education data system to help shape better education programs and policies.

John Fensterwald And Louis Freedberg

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Lack of effective state education data system holds students back

April 2, 2019

Longitudinal system that connects K-12 and higher ed could help more students complete college.

Michal Kurlaender

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California needs a better education data system but who will manage it?

March 25, 2019

A well-constructed higher-education coordinating entity could change the course of California education from opaque and siloed to transparent and coordinated.

Ria Sengupta Bhatt

Support builds to create longitudinal data system to track student progress in California

August 8, 2018

Educators and the public do not have data that "in my view greatly improve students' performance and their ultimate employment," said Sen. Steve Glazer (D – Orinda), chair of the select committee on student success in the Senate.

Mikhail Zinshteyn
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