About DQC

The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the availability and use of high-quality education data to improve student achievement. The campaign will provide tools and resources that will help states implement and use longitudinal data systems, while providing a national forum for reducing duplication of effort and promoting greater coordination and consensus among the organizations focused on improving data quality, access and use.

In November 2005, 10 founding organizations launched a national campaign to improve the collection, availability and use of high quality education data. The campaign expanded to include 14 managing partners and many more endorsing partners, so the work of the DQC is the result of a collaborative effort involving over 50 organizations across the country.  The primary focus of the first three years of the campaign was on building the political will for states to implement the 10 essential elements of a longitudinal data system. 

Over the next three years, the Data Quality Campaign‘s (DQC) partners will continue to provide support and information about building robust student-level longitudinal data systems via the 10 essential elements. But the campaign’s primary focus now shifts toward helping states identify and put in place the necessary policies and practices so that key stakeholders actually use longitudinal data to help students succeed. Even states that have not finished building their longitudinal data systems have a wealth of new information that they can use right away.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is DQC´s founding funder; additional support has been provided by the Casey Family Programs, the Lumina Foundation for Education, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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