Policy Spotlight
Information Alliance is working toward a day when relevant, accessible, accurate, useful, and timely information provides the foundation for California’s continuously-improving education system. The goal is to transform California’s educational culture such that a comprehensive information system is embraced as the critical backbone to effective teaching and learning.
In spring of 2008, Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger began the process of engaging with a broad set of stakeholders in the education, business, policymaking and non-profit communities create a shared vision for California’s education data system, identify the additional information and technology this vision requires, and develop a roadmap for implementing the technology and fostering its use. McKinsey & Company has been engaged as advisors in the process. Concurrently, two bills (SB 1298 and 1425) set the groundwork for building out a longitudinal data system. Please click here for more information.
There is much work ahead, and the Information Alliance will continue to be involved in building public support for and understanding of the need for better, more timely information to support student learning.
For more information about California’s educational data system, please click here.
San Francisco Beacon Center; Photography: Cory Chechile