Arizona Department of Education

The goal of this partnership was to lay the groundwork for future improvements to Arizona's Priority schools using a three-part strategy. First, the partnership identified measures in existing ADE data sources that predict student achievement. Next, the partnership employed these measures to assess the effectiveness of ADE school improvement strategies. The partnership assessed factors that predict student achievement within Arizona's 74 Priority schools as well as a sub-sample of 74 medium-...

ADE has used previous federal grant funding through the SLDS program to construct a data warehouse where many of the required data elements for a statewide longitudinal data system are currently in place. However, the current systems cannot effectively support increasing demands for timely, transparent, accessible, and actionable data across the K-12 continuum. Despite the depth of student data collected, Arizona is only able to provide a limited amount of actionable data back to stakeholders.

To supplement existing funding, the state proposes a grant of $5.9 million in Statewide Longitudinal Data System funding over three year