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Grantee State - Illinois

Websites:

• Illinois State Board of Education
• Illinois Longitudinal Data System Project
• ILDS Data Checks and Audit Procedures

2023 Grant Application

Illinois Data for Access, Literacy, and Linkage (Illinois Data for ALL)

Start Date: 9/25/2023
End Date: 9/24/2027

Project Director: Madan Damodaran

Amount Awarded: $3,723,854

Project Abstract 98 KB

Major Outcomes:

The Illinois Data for ALL project will accomplish its objectives by achieving eight outcomes:
ISBE Warehouse 3.0:

• Remediate technical debt within the ISBE data warehouse.
• Data availability will be expanded.
• Data documentation will be significantly enhanced.
• APIs and other event-driven mechanisms will automate the flow of data across the warehouse.
• Automation of data dictionaries and (to the extent possible) data through to a secure environment such as IBM's CloudPak for Data (CP4D).
• NIU will establish a secure data mart for the purpose of servicing multi-agency educational data for the ILDS. Comprehensive data sets (e.g., full statewide assessment records) will be transferred to the NIU data mart to be transformed for provision into secure environment such as CP4D.

ILDS 2.0:

• Investigation of development and implementation of a secure and permanent method for virtualizing data into secure environment such as CP4D for multiple agencies.
• Investigation of a secure method of extending the data sharing through a secure environment such as CP4D into externally connected reporting systems.

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2015 Grant Application

The Illinois Data for Fiscal and Instructional Results, Study, and Transparency (Illinois Data FIRST) Project

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

Project Director: Steve Koester

Amount Awarded: $7,000,000

Project Abstract 125 KB

Major Outcomes:

• Financial Equity and Return on Investment (ROI)
  • Expand ISBE (Illinois State Board of Education) Data Warehouse to include critical systems necessary for analysis of fiscal equity and return on investment.
  • Establish budgeting, accounting, data collection, and reporting systems for revenues and expenditures at the individual school- and early childhood-center level.
  • Integrate student, educator, and fiscal data to inform analysis of critical resource decisions and how resources are distributed across schools and students.
  • Utilize expanded fiscal data in ISBE warehouse and ILDS data for early childhood ROI research project and for high school to college success ROI research project.
• Instructional Support
  • Standardize data collection processes from local student information systems into the ISBE Student Information System.
  • Deploy a statewide Educator Single Sign-on (SSO) system.
  • Deliver comprehensive and quality Instructional Support Dashboard Suites.

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2009-ARRA Grant Application

Illinois Longitudinal Data System Expansion Project

Start Date: 7/1/2010
End Date: 9/30/2015

Project Director: Christopher Koch

Amount Awarded: $11,869,819

Project Application 5.3 MB

Project Abstract 151 KB

Major Outcomes:

• Establish a Statewide Transcript System for middle and high school students
• Integrate student-level data with teacher and administrator data
• Continue expansion and development of postsecondary education data systems
• Develop and implement  an Early Childhood Data Collection System

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2009 Grant Application

Illinois Longitudinal Data System (ILDS) Project

Start Date: 7/1/2009
End Date: 6/30/2015

Project Director: Christopher Koch

Amount Awarded: $8,999,956

Project Application 2.3 MB

Project Abstract 117 KB

Major Outcomes:

• Establish a State Education Data Advisory Group.
• Develop an enterprise-wide data architecture.
• Improve data quality through a system of data stewards and enhanced procedures for data auditing.
• Develop an education enterprise warehouse.
• Link the ISBE-assigned unique student ID with postsecondary and employment data; use linked data for research and evaluation purposes.

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WDQI Grant Application

Project Application 203 KB