Smart Options: Investing the Recovery Funds for Student Success

Organizations: Coalition for Student Achievement
Date: 04/2009
Description: This brief is designed to assist policymakers at the state and district levels in setting priorities for the use of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. The brief identifies five priority areas including to provide data and information that educators, policy makers, and parents can use. Governors and state chiefs should dramatically accelerate the work to embed all 10 elements of the Data Quality Campaign into the state’s data system, including linking teacher data to student performance data; link K–12 systems with early learning and postsecondary systems; align data definitions and design specifications with national standards; and ensure educators, policymakers, and parents are using the data to drive key decisions.

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