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May 23, 2010

Colorado gets millions for education data system

Jeremy Meyer:

Colorado won a $17.4 million federal grant to build a statewide data system that will link information about public school students from the time they enter preschool to when they graduate from college.

The grant was announced at noon by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Colorado was one of 20 states to share $250 million in stimulus funds intended to support the development of systems that link data across time and databases, from early childhood into careers, including matching teachers to students, according to the Institute of Education Sciences.

The student data will be kept private.

All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands applied for the grants. Colorado's was the fourth largest grant.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 23, 2010 1:55 AM
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