Federal leaders have a role to play in supporting states to create robust data systems.

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While states have been building cross-agency, longitudinal data systems for decades and have made notable progress, today’s statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDSs), and the federal programs and funding streams that support them, are largely designed and used for system-level compliance and monitoring activities. SLDSs have the potential to provide people with access to information that helps individuals, the public, and policymakers answer their questions and make decisions, but fulfilling that potential will require action from state leaders—and support from federal leaders.

Federal leaders have the ability to both ease and expedite state efforts to improve their SLDSs.

DQC’s federal recommendations ([link removed]) lay out how federal leaders can take the following steps to support data access through improved SLDSs:
* Clarify and increase the funding available for SLDS modernization and capacity building;
* Expand privacy technical assistance and support;
* Provide guidance on and support for linking and accessing data; and
* Scale best practices and address barriers to progress.

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