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The 2016 Early Childhood Profiles, released today by the Governor’s Office of Early Childhood (GOEC), provide county-specific data to help local leaders and early childhood advocates assess community challenges and inform local strategies to help children arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
In Kentucky, only 50 percent of children are considered ready when they enter kindergarten, according to the Brigance kindergarten screener released last fall.
“The goal of the Early Childhood Profile is to enhance dialogue in communities across the state about how to help more children arrive in kindergarten ready to be successful,” said Brigitte Blom Ramsey, executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence and chair of the Early Childhood Advisory Council Data Workgroup. “The first five years of brain development lay a critical foundation and families, communities and the local school system all play an important role in ensuring children are healthy and well prepared for the years ahead.”
In its fourth year of production, the 2016 Early Childhood Profile includes several new features. Historical kindergarten readiness results are included to track progress over time on the county level. The workforce section highlights the number of high school students who have graduated with an “industry recognized credential” in local Family and Consumer Sciences programs.
The Early Childhood Profile continues to contain results from the 2015-16 statewide kindergarten screener, information about the quality and availability of child care, and participation in publicly funded preschool, Head Start and child care programs. Demographic data related to children in poverty, participation in social service programs, and child abuse cases highlight external factors that can impact a child’s chance for success in school and life.
“While the Brigance screener gives us a snapshot of where children are at school entry, the Profile helps to identify some of the contributing factors that communities may want to address to improve outcomes for kids,” said Terry Tolan, executive director of the GOEC. “It takes everyone in the community – schools, families, churches, local government and early childhood programs - to help children thrive.”
The Early Childhood Profile is produced by the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS) for the GOEC and the Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) utilizing data from the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System (KLDS).
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Gov. Beshear: Kentucky Receives More Than $6.7 million Federal Grant for Workforce, Education Data Access
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Governor Steve Beshear today announced that Kentucky has been awarded a more than $6.7 million four-year federal grant to expand access to timely, high-quality education and workforce data.
Kentucky is one of 16 states or territories to receive a grant in the sixth round of the Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) Grant program.
“Kentucky has long been on the forefront of collecting and sharing data that spans from preschool through postsecondary,” said Gov. Beshear. “This grant is a critical component of building on that foundation of success. I am proud of what our Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS) has accomplished. This award reinforces the U.S. Department of Education’s confidence in our statewide education and workforce data system and its progress.”
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The Kentucky County Profiles have been update to reflect the most recent data available. Access the reports from the menu above by selecting ‘Data and Reports’.
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7/21/2015
KCEWS Data Conference
KCEWS will be hosting a Data Conference on September 22, 2015 from 9am to 4pm at the Transportation Cabinet. We will be highlighting the power of Kentucky’s longitudinal data system and exploring data use cases and best practices. Please make plans to attend this free conference. A detailed agenda and registration will be made available soon.
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The Center just released the 2015 Early Childhood Profiles for the Governor’s Office of Early Childhood and the Early Childhood Advisory Council utilizing data from the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System. These reports are compiled to help community leaders, community Early Childhood Councils and school districts with data to assist in developing local strategies for helping every child in their community arrive at kindergarten ready to do kindergarten work. The reports include information about the quality and availability of child care, results from the 2014 statewide kindergarten screener and information about participation in publicly funded preschool, Head Start and child care.
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Welcome to the Winter 2015 edition of the KCEWS Newsletter. In this edition you will learn about our recently released reports, our upcoming reports and you’ll meet our staff. Please feel free to share this newsletter with others.
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2014 Kentucky Teacher Preparation Feedback Reports released for all in-state public, independent colleges, universities. New data from the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS) on teacher preparation and retention for 28 Kentucky public and independent colleges and universities were released today.
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A report released today from the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS) on the Commonwealth’s eight public four-year universities shows that students from Kentucky were more likely to stay in the state to work than students from out-of-state. It also indicates that people who complete postgraduate degrees are less likely to remain in Kentucky to work than people with undergraduate degrees.
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A new study of recent Kentucky high school graduates shows that approximately 60 percent of those who did not attend postsecondary education entered Kentucky’s workforce and earned less than $8,000 in the year following graduation. The “No College = Low Wages” report by Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS) shows that even three years after graduation, of the students who entered the state’s workforce who did not attend college, only one in three were working full time.
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The Center just added a new section to our website that contains public access data files. Users have been requesting data from some of our reports in a format that they can analyze and manipulate on their own so we decided to produce these for our major reports. The data are provided in Excel workbooks. Each includes a tab with summary level data for all of the high schools and all of the counties in Kentucky with the same information you can find in our 2013 Kentucky High School Feedback Reports and the 2014-15 County Profile Reports.
Users can now sort, query, and develop their own graphs and tables with the data instead of typing in information from the individual reports. We will add additional data files over time. If you have an opportunity to download these, please let us know if you find them helpful or if there are suggestions for making them more useful. A data dictionary with technical notes is included in another tab in the same file.
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The Center just released the 2014 for the Governor’s Office of Early Childhood and the Early Childhood Advisory Council utilizing data from the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System. These reports are compiled to help community leaders, community Early Childhood Councils and school districts with data to assist in developing local strategies for helping every child in their community arrive at kindergarten ready to do kindergarten work. The reports include information about the quality and availability of child care, results from the 2013 statewide kindergarten screener and information about participation in publicly funded preschool, Head Start and child care.
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The Center just released updated Kentucky County Profiles for 2014-15. These include the most current information available covering county level demographics, education, income, employment and a variety of other topics. In addition the breakouts for Kentucky’s Area Development Districts and Workforce Investment Areas this year we are providing comparisons between Appalachian and Non-Appalachian Kentucky – which illustrate the differences between these areas in many important ways.
As always we have included a variety of charts, tables, and maps with information for local and state decision makers and the general public.
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Gov. Beshear names new Education and Workforce Secretary Thomas Zawacki.
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Secretary Joseph U. Meyer Retiring. KCEWS board member and founder, Joseph U. Meyer retires from the position of Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Education and Workforce Development.
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The Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics is established and formally attached to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, Office of the Secretary. The purpose of the office is to collect accurate education data and workforce data in the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System in order to link the data and generate timely reports about student performance through employment to be used to guide decision makers in improving the Commonwealth of Kentucky
education system and training programs. Relevant legislation includes: KRS 151B.131; KRS 151B.132; KRS 151B.133; KRS 151B.134; and KRS 164.036.
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Employment and Earnings of Kentucky’s College Graduates - the latest information on in-state employment rates and earnings.
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Governor Steve Beshear has signed a new executive order which creates the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS). KCEWS will continue and expand upon the work that was originally started by the P-20 Data Collaborative as an official office of the state within the Cabinet for Education and Workforce Development. The P-20 staff you may have worked with or heard from in the past will now be members of the KCEWS staff. We will retain our P-20 e-mail address and web URLs as we transition but as we enter the New Year you can expect to see the new name of the Office and Center on publications and reports.
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To attend the P20 Webinar, click on the blue P20 Webinar text above. (if you need to install LiveMeeting go to https://162.114.36.140/Livemeeting.html)
The Kentucky P-20 Data Collaborative and the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority are sponsoring a webinar and face-to-face meeting with the research community to discuss the types of data which are currently collected in education related data systems at the state level and the processes by which researchers could request access to data and what to expect. This is being conducted as a webinar and can be viewed throughout the state. The webinar will be recorded and will be available offline afterwards. In addition those who are available to attend in person are encouraged to do so.
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The Kentucky P-20 Collaborative releases the first public statewide reports on college going for Kentucky's public high schools. Individual reports are available by clicking Data Reports above. This represents the most comprehensive linkage between public high school and postsecondary records presented to date. The report includes information about college-going by school with district and state comparisons and disaggregated rates for various types of students which have never been produced before. In spring 2012 a set of follow-up reports will be produced that includes information about how these students performed in college. These reports include a number of different calculations than previous years' high school feedback reports and the numbers should not be compared. Longitudinal data will be provided for the state as well as a statewide report later in 2012.
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10/17/2011
The New (Web) Face of P-20 In Kentucky
The P-20 Data Collaborative unveiled a new website in September 2011. The new site will include updated information about the project, copies of these newsletters and other important documents and in October will begin featuring new reports and data through its Data Portal. In addition to this newsletter and the site, there will also be a way on the website to subscribe to e-mail updates about the project and upcoming reports and publications.
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10/10/2011
Legislation
The governance team for the P-20 Collaborative is developing language to seek legislation in the 2012 session to help create a stronger foundation for the project and to provide for the sustainability and expansion of the system.
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10/10/2011
Kentucky’s New High School Feedback Reports
The Collaborative will update high school feedback reports in October. The staff have met with a focus group composed of educational leaders and representing groups including parents, professional educators, school board members, superintendents and others to identify improvements as the new reports are developed. The new reports will be broken into specific topical areas and will represent a group of reports instead of a single report for each school. By using the P-20 System to develop these, we will be able to examine college going as well as college success for different types of students and subpopulations – which has never been possible before.
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10/1/2011
New Data Base Servers
The P-20 Data Collaborative is moving its system from shared and donated environments to new, high-end servers. The project has spent over $34,000 for two new database servers which are currently being moved into place. An additional server and external storage are expected to be added over time.
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9/14/2011
Expanding the Data Sources
P-20 is working with the early childhood community and with the state office for Unemployment Insurance to bring additional data into the infrastructure. These data are confidential and will be heavily restricted but it will be possible to leverage the P-20 tools to link them with data from schools to better understand kindergarten readiness as well as the employment and earnings for graduates and dropouts from our schools and colleges.
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9/6/2011
P-20 Completes First External Data Request
The P-20 data collaborative responded to the Office for Educational Accountability’s request for a data file that linked high school and college data about students so they could conduct a study of factors that influence college-going and college success in Kentucky. Due to the ability for P-20 to provide the data linking K-12 and postsecondary data, this was the only way to provide that linkage without sharing identifiable data.
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7/15/2011
IES SLDS Staff Visit Kentucky
This past July Dr. Tate Gould, Program Officer and Yosef Seddig from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences visited Kentucky along with a group of consultants to review the progress of the grant and to meet with external and internal stakeholders to provide advice and suggestions for getting the most out of the project. A final report from their findings is expected in October.
New Reporting Tools Training twenty-one staff from the four agencies including developers, analysts and executive directors attended a three day Business Objects Web Intelligence (Webi) course in August. This tool will be used for interactive and intuitive ad hoc reporting and analysis. Cutting edge visualization functionality allows end users to view two- and three-dimensional charts. Webi enables business analysts and non-technical consumers to ask spontaneous and iterative business questions about their data. Users have decision-quality information at their fingertips to investigate issues, and identify the root causes of problems without relying on IT to create reports.
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