The National Center for Education Statistics, under the Institute of Education Sciences, invites State educational agencies to apply for grants as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) to design, develop, and implement statewide, longitudinal data systems to efficiently and accurately manage, analyze, disaggregate, and use individual student data. The grants awarded will support the development and implementation of comprehensive P-20 systems that have the capacity to link individual student data across time and across databases (i.e., are "interoperable"), including the matching of teachers to students, promote the linking of data collected or held by various institutions, agencies, and States, and protect student privacy consistent with applicable privacy protection laws. The submission deadline for the Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant is November 19, 2009.
Link: http://nces.ed.gov/Programs/SLDS/grant_information.asp
