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2019 Grant Application

Massachusetts Partnership for Equity Through Evidence-Based Policy

Start Date: 3/1/2020
End Date: 2/29/2024

Project Director: Robert Curtin

Amount Awarded: $3,478,369

Project Abstract 97 KB

Major Outcomes:

Equity Priority
- With this grant, we are seeking to move from a solid foundation of data access to a strong focus on data action. To accomplish this, we will create clearer alignment around equity-informed research priorities, increase access to relevant data and research, and support educators and other practitioners to change their practices to effectively promote equity. To support these shifts, we have outlined three interconnected strands this grant would support:
  - Preschool to Career (P20W) Data Governance Structure (DGS): Create a Data Governance Structure that develops and guides a shared vision for inter-agency data use, identifies a set of equity-driven policy questions to guide research efforts across the state, and establishes a stronger culture of evidence-based decision-making at every level, including agency and board leadership.
  - Statewide Research Hub (Hub): Build out a data platform, linked to our current statewide data warehouse, that provides a central location for agency staff, researchers, and the general public to access P20W data and reports, and that can automate data and research request processes. The Hub will also provide cross-agency staff capacity for data collection, analysis, and reporting. These efforts will make data more accessible and transparent to external stakeholders and will allow us to tap into a broader research community.
  - Actionable Evidence-Based Practices: Build focused capacity to make evidence-based practices actionable by sourcing concrete examples of high-impact research-based practices in schools, districts, colleges, and other education programs and providers across the Commonwealth, creating a robust strategy for communicating findings, and by producing case studies and action-oriented resources for stakeholders.

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2015 Grant Application

2015 Massachusetts SLDS Grant Application

Start Date: 10/1/2015
End Date: 9/30/2020

Project Director: Robert Curtin

Amount Awarded: $6,999,761

Project Abstract 124 KB

Major Outcomes:

Fiscal Equity and Return on Investment
- Develop Massachusetts Resource Allocation and District Action Reports (RADAR) to allow districts to determine how their people, time and money are being used and identify opportunities to increase student achievement.
College and Career Readiness
- Expand EWIS (Early Warning Indicator System) to predict readiness for postsecondary education.
- Link education and workforce data to examine career outcomes.
- Develop a comprehensive training program for Edwin Analytics, Massachusetts’ longitudinal data system portal.

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2009-ARRA Grant Application

Massachusetts Information Providing Accelerated Student Success from Preschool to Occupations in Real Time (i-PASSPORT)

Start Date: 7/1/2010
End Date: 6/30/2014

Project Director: Sharon Wright

Amount Awarded: $12,972,730

Project Application 15.4 MB

Project Abstract 131 KB

Major Outcomes:

Create the Massachusetts Information Providing Accelerated Student Success from Preschool to Occupations in Real-Time (i-PASSPORT) to attain the following goals:

Integrated P-20 Data System
Early Indicator Warning & Opportunity System
School Interoperability Framework (SIF) Expansion
Early Identification of Prospective Educators
Improved Data Quality/Data Audit System
Interstate Data Sharing

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2009 Grant Application

Massachusetts Student Connect

Start Date: 5/2/2009
End Date: 4/30/2013

Project Director: Sharon Wright

Amount Awarded: $5,993,464

Project Application 2.7 MB

Project Abstract 103 KB

Major Outcomes:

Develop and Implement the Schools Interoperability Framework.
Establish an Interagency Readiness Passport System:
- Establish a stronger foundation and more systematic protocols for the nascent Massachusetts PK-16 database.
  - A plan to assign our unique student identifier (SASID) to children in publicly funded early childhood programs for the purposes of a continuous data stream through their transition to the K-12 education system.
  - A school to college database that involves matching Massachusetts' public high school graduates to Massachusetts' post-secondary institutions to provide a continuous data stream as students transition from high school to postsecondary education and training.

Establish a multi-staged process for linking education, health, human services, and employment and training data.
- Stage 1: Centralize current aggregate data, re, the "assets," services and resources available, and "needs," conditions that create demand for such services, from EOE, EOHHS, and EOLWD.
- Stage 2: Governor's Readiness Cabinet -- workgroup convened to develop options to reconcile privacy and data security requirements with the goal of data sharing across the range of services needed by at risk children and families.

Evaluation of the Feasibility of Regional Data Sharing Among Northeastern States.
Measurable Outcomes:
- Develop, test, and deploy a SIF vertical district to state reporting infrastructure.
- Develop and implement a training protocol and data quality procedures to ensure that local data is accurately mapped to the state.
- Pilot the SIF data system with 50 school districts by the 2010-2011 school year.
- Load these data into the data warehouse through SIF systems for their more timely and efficient use by stakeholders at all levels.
- Readiness Cabinet Work group.
  - Organize and disseminate Needs and Assets profiles for cities/towns and school districts by December 2009.
  - Enlist the help of outside researchers and provide access to our data within the constraints of FERPA, HIPPA, and FIPA to evaluate our data and district practices during 2009.
  - Evaluate the privacy and data security issues involved in sharing data across the range of education, health, human service, employment and training services sponsored by state agencies by June 2010. Implement data sharing to the extent feasible and appropriate during state fiscal year 2011.
- Have a SASID assignment for all public early childhood program participants by 2011.
- Establish a true PK-16 data system by 2011 through work with the Department of High Education to ensure that the SASID follows students from secondary to post-secondary level.
- The ESE will participate in a multi-state data sharing and research project led by the University of Connecticut to track students across a wider geographic area, assess the performance of our students in post-secondary education and employment, and integrate these findings in policy and the sharing of promising/best practices.

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WDQI Grant Application

Project Application 4.7 MB