This 2016 State Spotlight describes the partnership between the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education to build a statewide longitudinal data system with linkages across early intervention, early childhood special education, school-age special education, and general education. The brief also offers guiding questions for other state agencies to use when pursuing partnerships with institutions of higher education.

By: Tony Ruggiero, Sarika Gupta, Amy Nicholas, & Denise Mauzy

Maryland: Establishing Partnerships to Build Data Use Capacity (PDF)