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Grantee State - Virginia

Websites:

• Virginia Department of Education
• Safe Schools Information Resource: Report Generator

2023 Grant Application

Leveraging Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS) to Support Strategic Data Analytics, Research, and Evaluation that Impacts Actionable State Policies

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

Project Director: Xianxuan Xu

Amount Awarded: $4,000,000

Project Abstract 47 KB

Major Outcomes:

• Establish a state policy-focused research and evaluation consortium composed of state universities, legislators, state and local decision-makers, and other stakeholders;
• Create a library of state-policy-focused visualizations that can transform VLDS data into insights to assist policymakers and practitioners taking data-informed actions;
• Develop a new series of Canvas courses, in tandem with other outreach efforts, to enhance the data visualization capacity within VDOE;
• Develop workforce navigation dashboards to include health professions;
• Modernize the data collection process for transmitting data from LEA to SEA;
• Develop new data infrastructure features including a data asset inventory, a metadata repository, and a data mart; and
• Develop a repository of reports that are visible and accessible to new end users, in particular, Virginia's school administrators and educators.

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2019 Grant Application

Visualizing Equity: Supporting Continuity in Educational Opportunities for Students with Additional Needs Using Virginia’s Cross-Sector Longitudinal Data System

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

Project Director: Tod Massa

Amount Awarded: $3,500,000

Project Abstract 132 KB

Major Outcomes:

• Equity Priority
  • The proposed project has two goals:
    • to ensure research using data from VLDS is reflective of policy-relevant, equity-focused research questions and
    • to increase access to and transparency of VLDS data to a broader audience of education stakeholders.
  • The VDOE anticipates five outcomes from this project:
    • an equity-focused research agenda for VLDS and
    • an established longitudinal data research community that, in tandem, will align future research projects to VDOE’s equity commitments;
    • a library of equity-focused visualizations tailored to the expressed information needs of policymakers and practitioners; and
    • an educational performance measures dashboard and
    • educational record exchange platform which together will support and maintain the educational stability for children and youth in foster care, whenever it is in their best interest to do so.

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2009-ARRA Grant Application

Longitudinal Data System Expansion - linking to Workforce and Postsecondary

Start Date: 7/1/2010
End Date: 12/31/2014

Project Director: Bethann Canada

Amount Awarded: $17,537,564

Project Application 18.1 MB

Project Abstract 140 KB

Major Outcomes:

• Create an integrated K-12 student-teacher information system
• Create a longitudinal data linking and reporting system
• Develop a web-based portal to access education and workforce data
• Design a data management and control system
• Develop a secure mechanism for post-secondary institutions to receive high school transcripts in the form of electronic data

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2007 Grant Application

Virginia's Longitudinal Systems Expansion Project

Start Date: 9/29/2007
End Date: 9/28/2011

Project Director: Bethann Canada

Amount Awarded: $6,054,394

Project Application 2.7 MB

Project Abstract 73 KB

Major Outcomes:

The proposed project will address the following limitation of current systems in Virginia:

• Capacity to exchange data across institutions within the State and with institutions in other States, in conformance with FERPA
  • Supporting the recommendations of Virginia's P-16 Council by adopting a standard electronic student record that can be transferred from school-to-school, in and out of state, and from K-12 to higher education institutions.
• A data warehouse or comparable means for managing and storing longitudinally linked data and making them accessible to teachers, schools, districts, and researchers
  • Supporting the vision of the 2003 RFP and the recommendations of the 2006 study by providing a user-friendly interface to the data warehouse developing the ability to incorporate locally stored data (such as local assessments) into the decision support component; and providing analysis of graduation requirements to building-level educators.
• Acknowledged data quality issues at the local level
  • Supporting school divisions in addressing data quality issues by providing a comprehensive, role-based training program that produces awareness of the need for quality data and role-based accountability for quality data or the lack thereof.

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WDQI Grant Application

Project Application 696 KB