Enhancing Nebraska's SLDS for Interoperability

This project is designed to enhance Nebraska's SLDS infrastructure to better support interoperability across the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) and with external customers. Recent upgrades to Nebraska's SLDS remain the core of proposed system enhancements. New features would include the implementation of a data lake for agency-wide data consolidation, a data hub for standardization and complete CEDS alignment, and the development of an application program interface (API) that will provide full data interoperability across the agency and with external SLDS customers. Leveraging this new infrastructure, we propose a visualization proof of concept using an off-the-shelf BI tool to explore data intersections with early childhood and postsecondary education, as well as workforce data.