Pennsylvania Department of Education

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) and Mathematica examined educational inequities in Pennsylvania that have occurred since the disruptions of COVID-19 and evaluated strategies to reduce those inequities.

PDE proposes three grant outcomes to accelerate the use of educational data to explore trends, student outcomes, and programs effectiveness, while simultaneously reducing administrative burden to PDE.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), with support from the Governor and in partnership with the Department of Labor and Industry (L&I), Department of Human Services (DHS), Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), and the Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), is pleased to submit this proposal to the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) grant competition CDFA #84.372.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), with continued strong support from the Governor and in partnership with other agencies, Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), Department of Labor and Industry, Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), is pleased to submit this proposal to the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Institute of Education Science’s State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) grant competition

Pennsylvania’s SLDS grant award in 2006 helped to launch Pennsylvania from one of the last states to start work on a SLDS to a state successfully and aggressively implementing a comprehensive and sustainable SLDS. As PDE nears the midpoint of its 3-year grant award, much has been accomplished:

Pennsylvania faces greater data needs and challenges in reaching requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) and state objectives than most, if not all, other states. The Pennsylvania Pathways to Performance strategic plan created a vision and roadmap to improve the situation.