California's Cradle-to-Career Data System will track pre-K through adulthood

SACRAMENTO – The Office of Cradle-to-Career Data has signed legal agreements with 15 education, social service, and workforce entities, which allow for the creation of data sets on student progress from pre-K through college and employment, which was announced at the May 11 Governing Board meeting.

“These milestones make progress toward creating a transformative statewide data system that will link together existing data on education, workforce, financial aid, and social services to create tools for use by students, families, policy makers, researchers and the public,” the spokesman said.

“Wit...