AEM Funding Extended for Support of Center for the Integration of IDEA Data

AEM Corporation has received five years of funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to continue leading the Center for the Integration of IDEA Data (CIID).

CIID provides technical assistance to state education agencies (SEAs) to increase the capacity to report high quality data required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B Sections 616 and 618. CIID supports the integration of IDEA data systems and processes with Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS).

This work is a critical component of OSEP’s effort to support states with access to a broad array of higher quality data to support efforts like results-driven accountability to improve educational outcomes for children and families. It will build on existing efforts and also expand to new states.

CIID provides technical assistance to SEAs across a continuum of needs and current efforts toward integration of IDEA and SLDS processes and systems. Through CIID’s technical assistance, SEAs will have:

• Support to implement the Generate application that will put them in a position to leverage the developing resources of the Common Education Data Standards Open Source Community.
• Increased access to products and tools like the Data Integration Toolkit and technical assistance to gain knowledge for improving their IDEA data systems.
• A community of SEA work teams and peer learning groups to support IDEA and SLDS data management and integration efforts.
• A model for collaboration and communication with CIID’s staff expertise in IDEA, EDFactsand SLDS that SEA staff can emulate to assist in the effort toward integrated data systems.

The automated EDFacts reporting solution Generate is a free software application that improves data quality and automates reporting for SEAs through standardization. Generate can improve SEA data use and reporting to better support administrative and policy work for improved educational outcomes for students with disabilities and their families.

The CIID team will build on the momentum of 13 SEAs implementing Generate and the successful record of technical assistance providers documenting data quality improvements in 100% of SEAs receiving intensive technical assistance.

AEM partners on CIID include AnLar, Evergreen Evaluation and Consulting, Westat, and WestEd.

Learn more about CIID from the CIID 101 brief and Generate from the Introduction to Generate. To request CIID technical assistance or additional information, email us at CIIDTA@aemcorp.com.