Spot longitudinal trends in student learning and empower stakeholders to improve education

P-20 Data Systems

Discover how SAS can help you make informed decisions about student learning while protecting privacy and ensuring compliance. SAS makes it easy to connect aggregate and disparate data and spot trends over time.

How SAS supports P-20 data systems

SAS provides software and services for creating a robust and modernized statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS) to help education leaders move from assumption-based decisions to data-driven decisions informed by analytic insight.

Data integration

Combine multiple sources of disparate data across early childhood, K-12, postsecondary and workforce.
Ensure data security with a solution designed for privacy and compliance.
Automate data quality with embedded business rules.
Use data models aligned to the Common Education Data Standards, Ed-Fi and SIF data standards.

Analytic insights

Explore student-level data and predict trends over time.
Create the foundation for analytically informed decision making.
Perform simulations and scenario analyses to demonstrate the potential impacts of decisions.

Dynamic visualizations

Evolve from flat, static files to dynamic visualizations.
Provide users with displays that help stakeholders understand data more easily.
Display data in multiple formats.
Create interactive visualizations based on best practices and the ability to meet the needs of different audiences

Why do education leaders choose SAS for P-20 data systems?

SAS helps state education agencies connect and see student-level data over time. This aggregate data can be used to spot trends for improving education systems. The solution identifies highly successful programs that support student achievement and highlights opportunities for improvement, such as common equity challenges.

Create momentum

Demonstrate the need for desired policies and the progress of reforms.

Empower constituents

Help policymakers, parents and education leaders make data-informed decisions.

Generate insights

Identify successful programs that support student achievement.

Facilitate research

Provide data for further investigation to help close achievement gaps.

Identify outcomes

Highlight return on education program investments.

Answer questions

Address issues critical to understanding your state’s future education and workforce needs.

The SAS application provides actionable and easy-to-access metrics/dashboards that assist in guiding data validation, cleansing and prep for successful data loads." Meredith Fergus Manager of Research/SLEDS Coordinator Minnesota Office of Higher Education

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Customer success with long-term applied data and analytics

How using SAS helps improve educational investments in SLDS

Minnesota Department of Education

Exploring COVID-19's effects on pre-K to workforce journey

Minnesota's longitudinal data system integrates early childhood education, K-12, postsecondary and workforce data to create a panoramic view of education outcomes. The state's leaders and educators are using it to understand the pandemic's effects, from pre-K to workforce.

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Michigan Department of Education

Getting food benefits to children in need during COVID-19

Thanks to the Michigan Department of Education's Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI), Michigan was able to distribute benefits to more than 900,000 families by May. Built using SAS software, CEPI collects student educational data from school districts in an SLDS.

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Florida Department of Education (FLDOE)

Modernizing systems, increasing reporting accuracy and improving stakeholder experience

SAS is helping the Florida Department of Education create a persistent statewide unique identifier and longitudinal view of students and staff across colleges, K-12, and other sources and systems.

Webinar

ECS Partnering for Success: Using State Data Systems to Spur Collaboration and Improve Education

State longitudinal data systems are powerful tools that can provide vital information to guide decision-making. Watch the webinar to hear from leaders in Maryland and North Carolina about how data systems can help address education challenges.