Project Activities
This project will assist with the New Jersey Department of Education with its ongoing mission to support schools, educators, and districts to ensure all of New Jersey's 1.4 million students have equitable access to high-quality education and achieve academic excellence.
Multiple state agencies have committed to collaborating with one another in order to make progress toward these outcomes so that New Jersey can best utilize its P20W longitudinal data to improve policies that impact students, workers, residents, and other stakeholders. Considering that integration efforts involve both single-agency and multi-agency data systems, the State will coordinate this work by relying on its talented experts across agencies, strong inter-agency relationships, and well-established governance structures.
The goals involved with this grant will improve data quality, collection, integration, and accessibility for agencies within New Jersey and between states. Making progress on each of these outcomes will enhance the entire State system. This synergy among agencies and data systems will allow New Jersey to more thoughtfully utilize P20Wdata to improve the educational experience and outcomes for all students.
Key outcomes
The following outcomes are infrastructure-related and will be completed by the end of the grant period:
- NJDOE data consolidation
- Modernization of Postsecondary Student Unit Record (SURE) data collection
- Data accessibility improvement
- Research community data access expansion
- Early childhood, elementary/secondary, postsecondary, workforce data system integration
- Exploration of a mid-Atlantic interstate data exchange including current interest from Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland
Questions about this project?
To answer additional questions about this project or provide feedback, please contact the program officer.
