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Early-childhood data project stalls as Health & Human Services pauses participation; advocates urge continued NDE funding for eKIDS
Summary
A state early-childhood data integration effort (eKIDS) has progressed under the Department of Education but stalled when Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services declined to participate in final data-sharing agreements; First Five Nebraska and NDE urged maintaining budgeted funding to keep the project viable for future federal grants.
Dr. Katie Bass, policy research manager for First Five Nebraska, and Department of Education witnesses asked the Appropriations Committee to preserve funding for Nebraska’s Early Childhood Integrated Data System — eKIDS — after the Department of Health and Human Services said it would not finalize participation in December, citing resource and legal concerns.
Bass described eKIDS as a cloud-based backbone technology built by the Nebraska Department of Education to integrate child- and program-level data across…
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