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Resources for Building Longitudinal Data Sets Kathy Hebbeler ECO at SRI International. ECO Conference Call Septemer 2009. For more information, see. Incorporating Early Childhood into Longitudinal Data Systems: What, Why and How Kathy Hebbeler, ECO at SRI International
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Resources for Building Longitudinal Data Sets Kathy Hebbeler ECO at SRI International ECO Conference Call Septemer 2009
For more information, see • Incorporating Early Childhood into Longitudinal Data Systems: What, Why and How • Kathy Hebbeler, ECO at SRI International • Lynne Kahn, ECO at FPG • Presented at the OSEP Leadership Conference, Washington, DC, August 2009 • On ECO web site: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~eco/pages/archive.cfm
Building Longitudinal Data Sets Goal: Include data on young children with disabilities (starting at birth) in the data set Need a data set that includes general and special education* *because of the movement in and out of special education Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Resources Data Quality Campaign www.dataqualitycampaign.org DQC just beginning to focus on early childhood Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Funding Sources for Longitudinal Data Systems Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grants (IES) • $250 million • Grants are for 3 to 5 years for up to $9 million; due November 19, 2009 • 2005 – 14 states; 2007 – 12; 2009 – 27 • Many states planning to include preschool • http://nces.ed.gov/programs/slds/ Early Childhood Outcomes Center
SLDS Features Matrix http://nces.ed.gov/Programs/SLDS/summary.asp Is your state planning to include: • Special Education – IEP Data? • Pre-Kindergarten (beyond Special Education)?
Other funding opportunities • State Incentive Grants (i.e., Race to the Top) - $4.35 billion • Title I Funds - $13 billion • Head Start - $1 billion • State Advisory Councils on Early Childhood Education • “develop recommendations for a unified data collection system for public early childhood programs and services throughout the state” Early Childhood Outcomes Center
See Data Quality Campaign’s Roadmap http://www.dataqualitycampaign.org/files/DQC_roadmap_singlepg-rev.pdf for more information. Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Extraordinary Opportunity Special education leadership needs to: • Work to ensure Part C and 619 are/will be part of the state’s early childhood data system • Work to ensure early childhood data are/will be linked to K-12 Early Childhood Outcomes Center