Oregon Department of Education

The project team will  examine the implementation and impact of Oregon's On-Track to Graduation initiative.  This initiative  was implemented in 2016-2017 and provided funding for high school interventions, including a 9th grade dropout prevention program composed of data systems, awareness raising activities, and coaches.

The number of English language learners (ELLs) in Oregon increased greatly over the past two decades, and ELLs now comprise 10% of the state's K-12 population. Efforts to explore the factors that contribute to ELL academic success are hampered by a lack of information on what differentiates ELLs who are eventually reclassified out of ELL status from those who are not. Furthermore, information describing the instructional programs that ELLs in the state experience needs further development an...

The Oregon Department of Education proposes the implementation of Project ALDER: Advancing Longitudinal Data for Educational Reform. This initiative is designed to provide Oregon with a single source education and workforce longitudinal data system while also building partnerships necessary to support and sustain the data exchange.

This proposal focuses on enhancing the statewide longitudinal data system that has been developed over the last decade in Oregon. The state has successfully used legislative funding and federal awards to develop a centralized and standardized system for organizing and storing student records and transcripts in statewide data warehouses. At the individual level, educators now have a unique staff identifier that allows them access to a secure system for focusing on school improvement.

Oregon school districts, like many other states, collect information about K-12 students and staff into electronic databases. Portions of these data are delivered to the state Department of Education in order to meet compliance requirements. Unfortunately, in most cases, that is the limit of the use of these data.