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State Board OKs contract to link early childhood data after staff defends safeguards
Summary
The Nebraska State Board of Education authorized a contract for an early-childhood integrated data system (eKIDS) after staff said the system would link existing agency data for program analysis and promised data-sharing agreements and safeguards; the motion passed 6-1 with one absence.
The Nebraska State Board of Education voted to authorize the commissioner to contract for an early-childhood integrated data system, known in staff materials as eKIDS, after members questioned what data would be shared and how it would be protected.
At the Oct. 3 meeting in Fremont, the board moved and seconded the measure following discussion. Lane Carr, administrator for the department's office of policy, told board members the proposal is not intended to collect new data but to bring together information already collected across state agencies ' including DHHS-managed child-care subsidy and income-related records, IDEA Part C special-education data, Head Start records and state pre-K program data ' so policymakers can better evaluate…
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