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On May 21, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that Illinois has been awarded $11.9 million for the design and implementation of a statewide longitudinal data system. Statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDS) grants, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, support the development and implementation of data systems to enable States to examine student progress from early childhood into career, including matching teachers to students, while protecting student privacy and confidentiality consistent with applicable privacy protection laws. Last year, Congress expanded the program to include not only K-12 data systems, but also to provide links with pre-K, postsecondary, and workforce data.
Illinois created the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act (Public Act 96-0107) in 2009. The Act requires the State Board of Education, the Illinois Community College Board, and the Board of Higher Education to jointly establish and maintain a longitudinal data system by entering into agreements that link early learning, elementary, and secondary school student unit records with institution of higher learning student unit records. State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) grants were authorized by the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 and the first grants were awarded in 2005. The 2009 ARRA grantees were selected in a competition based on the merit of the applicants’ proposals and the funding available for the program. An independent peer review panel evaluated the proposals on aspects such as need for the project, project goals and outcomes, activities and timeline, management and governance, and personnel and financial resources. The process is independent from Race to the Top and was administered by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the Department of Education.
In total, $250 million was awarded this year through the SLDS grant competition. States received varying award sizes based on differing needs and requests. The full list of award winners is: Arkansas- $9.8 million; Colorado- $17.4 million; Florida - $10.0 million; Illinois - $11.9 million; Kansas - $9.1 million; Maine - $7.3 million; Massachusetts - $13.0 million; Michigan - $10.6 million; Minnesota - $12.4 million; Mississippi - $7.6 million; New York - $19.7 million; Ohio - $5.1 million; Oregon - $10.5 million; Pennsylvania - $14.3 million; South Carolina - $14.9 million; Texas - $18.2 million; Utah - $9.6 million; Virginia - $17.5 million; Washington - $17.3 million; Wisconsin - $13.8 million. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands applied.
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