The Power Shift: How States Can Use Data to Shape What’s Next

As the federal role in K-12 shifts, states have a bigger opportunity - and a bigger responsibility - to lead. One of the clearest places that leadership matters is education data: how states use it to improve decision-making, strengthen transparency, support better practice, and drive better outcomes for students.

This session will explore what that leadership looks like now. Data Quality Campaign, EdAnalytics, and Learning Economy are partnering with states across the country to help build more modern, effective, and innovative approaches to education data. California offers a leading example of what that work can look like in practice: a state moving ahead and building the kind of data infrastructure this moment demands.

Together, panelists will examine how states and partners can work in complementary ways to build data systems that are more useful, more connected, and more responsive to the needs of students, families, educators, and communities. Attendees will leave with a clearer view of this policy moment, a stronger sense of what states should demand from their data systems, and concrete ideas for how data can help shape what’s next in education.

Panelists

Jenn Bell-Ellwanger, President and CEO, Data Quality Campaign (moderator)

Mary Anne Bates, Executive Director, California Office of Cradle to Career

Noah Bookman, Chief Solutions Officer, EdAnalytics

Dr. Alison Bryant, Chief Operating Officer, Learning Economy