General Resources

• Cradle-to-Career Data System Act Trailer Bill (AB 132, Statutes of 2021, Chapter 144, Section 8)
• Cradle-to-Career Data System Act (SB 75, Statutes of 2019, Chapter 51, Section 4)
• Overview PowerPoint
• Fact Sheet
• Value of the Cradle-to-Career Data System
• General Frequently Asked Questions
• Technical Frequently Asked Questions
• CaliforniaColleges.edu
• Prior Efforts to Build a California Longitudinal Data System
• Acronym Glossary
• Box.com Instructions

Planning Process Background Papers

Cradle-to-Career Workgroup

• Refining Specifications for California Data System Tools
• Scope and Decision-Making Frameworks for the Cradle-to-Career Data System
• Staffing, Technical, and Legal Governance for The Cradle-to-Career Data System

Policy & Analytics Advisory Group

• Prioritizing Policy and Analytics Functions for Phase 1 of the California Data System: Policy & Analytics Advisory Group Brief

Practice & Operations Advisory Group

• Prioritizing Practice and Operations Functions for Phase 1 of the California Data System: Practice & Operations Advisory Group Brief

Common Identifier Subcommittee

• Common Identifier Background Paper: Frameworks for Creating a Common Identifier for a Statewide Data System

Definitions Subcommittee

• Developing Consistent Definitions and Defining Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation

Legal Subcommittee

• Legal Subcommittee Background Paper: Frameworks for Data Sharing Agreements in a Statewide Data System

Research Agenda Subcommittee

• Developing a Research Agenda for the California Data System and Evaluating Transfer Outcomes: Research Agenda Subcommittee Brief
• Evaluating High School Students’ Preparation for College Success
• College Access, Completion, and the Long-Term Effects of Access to State Financial Aid
• Workforce Effects of Graduating from High School and Postsecondary Education
• The Role of Human Subjects Review in External Data Requests 

Technology & Security Subcommittee

• Technology & Security Subcommittee Background Paper: Frameworks for Structuring Data in a Statewide Data System
• Understanding Data Transfer Processes

Use Cases

• Data Request Use Case
• Student Records and Planning Use Case
• P20W Data Set Use Case

National Resources

Data Quality Campaign

• Why Education Data?

Education Commission of the States

• 50-State Comparison: Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems

Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics

• Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant Program
• Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Survey Analysis

Other States’ Longitudinal Data Systems

• Minnesota
• Kentucky
• Washington
  

Press

• CalMatters: California lacks timely data on which high schoolers go to college. This may fix that.
• Data Quality Campaign: California sets a new bar for P-20 data policy

Selected Reports from California

Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities/The California Education Round Table Intersegmental Coordinating Committee

• Final Report: A Planning Grant on California Intersegmental Data and Postsecondary Educational Metrics on Student Outcomes
• A Planning Grant on California Intersegmental Data and Postsecondary Education Metrics on Student Outcomes (Phase 1)

California Competes

• Out of the Dark: Bringing California’s Education Data Into the 21st Century

Campaign for College Opportunity

• Building a Student-Centered Data System in California

Education Insights Center

• California Education Policy, Student Data, and the Quest to Improve Student Progress

Policy Analysis for California Education

• Making California Data More Useful for Educational Improvement

Public Policy Institute of California

• Increasing the Usefulness of California’s Education Data and Modernizing the State’s Education Data System
• Integrating California’s Education Data

Senate Select Committee

• Longitudinal Data Systems

The Education Trust-West

• Data for the People Campaign

Selected 2020 Publications

Children Now

• California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System

Data Quality Campaign

• California is Following Best Practices to Make Its Statewide Data System a Reality

EdInsights

• Use Drives Quality: Considering Data Quality Issues in California’s Pursuit of a Cradle-to-Career Data System
• Governance Decisions are Critical to the Success of California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System
• Setting Priorities for California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System

The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS)

• What’s Aid Got to Do with It? The Importance of Incorporating Financial Aid Data in California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System