# Final Priority; Technical Assistance on State Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting-National IDEA Technical Assistance Center on Early Childhood Longitudinal Data Systems
> **US Department of Education** · Final Priority. · Published 2012-08-08 · Effective 2012-09-07 · 77 FR 47496
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-19478
- **Category:** education-special-ed
- **Agency:** US Department of Education
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 47496
- **Publication date:** 2012-08-08
- **Effective date:** 2012-09-07
- **Docket:** CFDA Number 84.373Z
## Abstract

The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services announces a priority under the Technical Assistance on State Data Collection program. The Assistant Secretary may use this priority for competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2012 and later years. We take this action to focus attention on an identified national need to provide technical assistance (TA) to States to improve their capacity to meet the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) data collection, analysis, and reporting requirements. We intend this priority to establish a TA center to assist States in developing or enhancing statewide early childhood longitudinal data systems, by which we mean data systems that include child-level data for infants, toddlers, and young children with disabilities (birth through age 5) served through early childhood programs under IDEA Part C and Part B preschool programs. These statewide early childhood longitudinal data systems would be part of a coordinated early learning data system, by which we mean data systems that vertically and horizontally link child, program, and workforce data elements related to children (birth through age 5). This TA will build States' capacity to report high-quality data to meet IDEA reporting requirements.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/08/08/2012-19478/final-priority-technical-assistance-on-state-data-collection-analysis-and-reporting-national-idea)
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