1. Resources for Building Longitudinal Data Sets
Kathy Hebbeler
ECO at SRI International
ECO Conference Call Septemer 2009 1

2. For more information, see
Incorporating Early Childhood into Longitudinal Data Systems: What, Why and How
Kathy Hebbeler, ECO at SRI International
Lynne Kahn, ECO at FPG
Presented at the OSEP Leadership Conference, Washington, DC, August 2009
On ECO web site:

3. Building Longitudinal Data Sets
Need a data set that includes general and special education*
Goal: Include data on young children with disabilities (starting at birth) in the data set
*because of the movement in and out of special education
Early Childhood Outcomes Center

4. Resources Data Quality Campaign www.dataqualitycampaign.org
DQC just beginning to focus on early childhood
Early Childhood Outcomes Center

5. Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Funding Sources
for Longitudinal Data Systems
Early Childhood Outcomes Center

6. Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grants (IES)
$250 million
Grants are for 3 to 5 years for up to $9 million; due November 19, 2009
2005 – 14 states; 2007 – 12; 2009 – 27
Many states planning to include preschool
Early Childhood Outcomes Center

7. SLDS Features Matrix Is your state planning to include:
Is your state planning to include:
Special Education – IEP Data?
Pre-Kindergarten (beyond Special Education)?

9. Other funding opportunities
State Incentive Grants (i.e., Race to the Top) - $4.35 billion
Title I Funds - $13 billion
Head Start - $1 billion
State Advisory Councils on Early Childhood Education
“develop recommendations for a unified data collection system for public early childhood programs and services throughout the state”
Early Childhood Outcomes Center

10. Early Childhood Outcomes Center
See Data Quality Campaign’s Roadmap
for more information.
Early Childhood Outcomes Center

11. Extraordinary Opportunity
Special education leadership needs to:
Work to ensure Part C and 619 are/will be part of the state’s early childhood data system
Work to ensure early childhood data are/will be linked to K-12
Early Childhood Outcomes Center