Data Quality Campaign

For 20 years, DQC has been the nation’s voice for using data to provide everyone, from students to governors, with the information they need to make education and workforce decisions.

This milestone is about more than history—it’s about the future we’re building together.

🎥 Hear from our partners and join us in celebrating 20 years of the Data Quality Campaign:

Celebrating 20 Years of DQC For two decades, DQC has worked alongside educators, advocates, policymakers, and families to make data work. As we mark our 20th anniversary, we’re reflecti...

Our latest brief breaks down what it really costs to build and maintain a high-quality SLDS and how states can use smart funding strategies, effective governance, and skilled staff to make data work for people.

Learn more:

What Building and Sustaining an SLDS Costs | DQC DQC analyzed four robust statewide longitudinal data systems to find out what it costs to build and maintain these critical systems.

When connected to a robust SLDS, UI wage data can enable insights into the outcomes of state workforce and education programs. Find recommendations for state and federal action that can drive UI wage data enhancements in our resource:

Enhancing Unemployment Insurance Wage Data | DQC Enhanced UI wage data can equip leaders with a data source that provides a fuller picture of their workforce.

Policymakers across the country are seeking to better understand credentials of value. Enhanced unemployment insurance (UI) wage data can help bridge information gaps by providing a fuller picture of education to workforce outcomes. Learn more:

Enhancing Unemployment Insurance Wage Data | DQC Enhanced UI wage data can equip leaders with a data source that provides a fuller picture of their workforce.

Our latest resource is a comprehensive landscape of the data ecosystem related to postsecondary access, completion, and ROI. It unpacks leaders’ data needs, current challenges, and how states can improve their SLDSs and use data to support students.

Using Data to Support Postsecondary Access, Completion, and Return on Investment | DQC State data systems that provide robust, user-friendly information can bridge information gaps and improve postsecondary education and workforce outcomes.

With better-matched data across the education and workforce spectrum, state leaders can provide higher-quality education to workforce information so that decisionmakers can select and invest in education and training opportunities that meet educational, financial, and geographic needs.

Our state implementation guide, created in partnership with DISC at WestEd answers questions about how this work is possible for states and offers considerations for state leaders as they pursue this work across the education to workforce spectrum.

Driver’s License Data Can Help States Better Understand Education and Workforce Pathways Driver’s license data offers a single verifiable record that can be used to fill gaps in other records and accurately connect data across sectors, enabling a state to resolve inconsistent data and improve matching and data quality within its SLDS.

In this op-ed for The 74, DQC President and CEO Jennifer Bell-Ellwanger discusses key questions about data for Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon's confirmation hearing.

6 Questions Senators Should Ask Trump’s Nominee for Education Secretary Bell-Ellwanger: With NAEP scores down & absenteeism up, Linda McMahon must make her policies on data, assessment, transparency & student privacy clear

Equity in education requires actionable data. State leaders must provide educators with the tools they need to track the outcomes that matter most to communities. Read more in our latest resource:

Using Data to Advance Education Equity | DQC To make decisions about how to support all students, they need access to data that shines a light on the education experiences and outcomes that matter most to their communities.

Better data is critical to improving the early childhood ecosystem. Many states have initiated promising efforts to improve their data capacity, but more comprehensive efforts are needed. Read more in DQC’s latest resource:

Transforming State Early Childhood Data | DQC Better data is critical to improving the early childhood ecosystem. States must do more comprehensive work to support better data systems in the future.

K–12 students need in- and out-of-school support to meet their academic and non-academic needs. Our new resource highlights what's possible when SLDSs are designed to connect school and district leaders to the data they need to ensure their students thrive. http://dataqualitycampaign.org/resource/connect-school-and-district-leaders-to-the-information-they-need-to-ensure-that-their-students-thrive/

K–12 Leaders Need Access to Data | DQC Everyone should have access to the information they need to ensure that K–12 students receive necessary support in and out of school.

Recently, we sat down with some of our partners to get their perspectives on what it means to have access to quality data to support their work, their real-world experiences using data, and the challenges they face in accessing that data.

Advocates and Nonprofits Need Access to Data States need data infrastructure that meets the needs of all their education and workforce communities, including the advocacy and nonprofit organizations tha...