III.B.6: EDFacts
Put performance data at the center of policy, management and budget decisions for all K-12 educational programs. Other Information:
EDFacts is a U.S. Department of Education initiative to put performance data at the center of policy, management and budget
decisions for all K-12 educational programs. EDFacts centralizes performance data supplied by K-12 state educational agencies
(SEAs) with other data assets, such as financial grant information, within the Department to enable better analysis and use
in policy development, planning and management. The purpose of EDFacts is to: • Place the use of robust, timely performance
data at the core of decision and policymaking in education. • Reduce state and district data burden and streamline data practices.
• Improve state data capabilities by providing resources and technical assistance. • Provide data for planning, policy, and
management at the federal, state, and local levels. Until now EDFacts has only been available to Department and State analysts.
In the interest of transparency the Department plans to make these data publicly available for the first time and will start
by moving five datasets to Data.gov this fiscal year: 1) Schools in need of improvement since 2004-05 2) Districts in need
of improvement since 2004-05 3) Statewide assessment results in reading since 2003- 04 4) Statewide assessment results in
mathematics since 2003-04 5) District level graduation rates reported under ESEA for 2006-07 and 2007-08
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