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Annual Research & Reporting Priorities

The MLDS Center staff, in consultation with stakeholders and the Governing Board, develops a list of priorities to guide the work of the Center for the year (Fiscal Year). The priorities include annual reporting requirements, new reports, and planned research to be undertaken by the Research Branch. The Process for Establishing Annual Research and Reporting Priorities (opens in new tab) includes the steps for developing the annual priorities, a list of recurring required annual output (Appendix 1), a list of potential research and reporting priorities (Appendix 2), and a list of current and prior year approved research and reporting priorities (appendix 3). Below are the current year priorities.

Reporting Services Priorities, FY27

Required Annual Output

  • Reports (2)
    • Status: PlannedCareer Preparation Expansion Act
    • Status: PlannedProgress on Preparation and Diversity of New Teachers & Teacher Candidates (through 2031)
  • Dashboards (4)
    • Status: PlannedDual Enrollment
    • Status: PlannedFoster Care
    • Status: PlannedHomeless
    • Status: PlannedFAFSA Completion (through 2028)
  • Tables & Other Output
    • Status: PlannedDHS: Foster Care JCR
    • Status: PlannedDJS: Data Resource Guide
    • Status: PlannedDLS: Dual Enrollment
    • Status: PlannedMSDE: Perkins (CTE) & Special Education (IDEA)
    • Status: PlannedLabor: LACES (OCTAE)
    • Status: PlannedPAR: Market Share, Degrees & Workforce

Output Refresh & Expansion

  • Status: PlannedMaryland Public High School Graduates: College and Workforce Outcomes
  • Status: PlannedBrain Gain & Regain
  • Status: PlannedWorking While in College
  • Status: PlannedMD: T-CLaWE (2x per year)
  • Status: PlannedMD-CLaWE (2x per year)
  • Status: PlannedComputer Science for All
  • Status: PlannedApprenticeship

Other Projects

  • Status: PlannedAIB Data Sets*
  • Status: PlannedGWDB & CTE Committee*
  • Status: PlannedENOUGH Grant
  • Status: PlannedMHEC State Plans
  • Status: PlannedOBBBA
  • Status: PlannedWorkforce Pell*
  • Status: PlannedRegional Education and Labor Market Analysis (Coleridge)*

New Development

  • Status: PlannedWorkforce Development CLaWE (inc. Workforce Pell)
  • Status: PlannedPAR CLaWE
  • Status: PlannedHigh School CLaWE (MDRC/NCANS)
  • Status: PlannedSocial and Economic Indicators (Contextual)

Collection Exploration

  • Status: PlannedService and Civic Innovation Data (DSCI)
  • Status: PlannedLicenses

Five & Ten Year Out Reports

  • Status: PlannedHigh School, Associate's, Bachelor's, GED, & Apprenticeship

Data Requests

Research Branch Priorities, FY27

Priority 1:
In-Depth Statistical Analyses to Support Casual Inference and Inform Policy

  • Status: In ProgressPathways from High School to College to Workforce
  • Status: In ProgressCritical Workforce areas (e.g., teaching; STEM; healthcare, social work) and production of students to meet these needs
  • Status: In ProgressEducation and labor outcomes for students in out of home placement, students arrested, and students in both systems
  • Status: In ProgressThe link between correctional education and labor participation
  • Status: In ProgressStudents who have some college expereince but leave without a degree
  • Status: In ProgressHomelessness and mobility/churn in college and the workforce
  • Status: In ProgressOutcomes for students served by community schools and community support hubs (Partnership with the MCCCS Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports)
  • Status: In ProgressOutcomes for students in special populations (e.g., special education and multilingual learners)

Priority 2:
Methodological Documentation

  • Status: In ProgressEquity in Data Science
  • Status: In ProgressUsing Census data to examine disadvantage
  • Status: In ProgressIntersectionality in personal characteristics predicting outcomes
  • Status: In ProgressCausal designs to examine interim Blueprint outcomes
  • Status: In ProgressEstimate policy "shocks" to determine the change necessary to inform policy