Data Governance

OSPI has a large amount of data within the agency. Most of the data is collected for compliance purposes, with more recent collections focused on policy or research questions.

Our Data Governance program provides support and processes to all parts of the education data life cycle. We have a Data Governance Manual that describes the process and overall goals and groups used to properly collect, check, use and dispose of education data.

We have four major data domains:

• Directory
• Student
• Fiscal
• Educator

Each data domain has a data owner, data stewards and data analysts that manage their data. The Director of Data Governance manages the policies, forms and processes these staff use to do their data work. OSPI also uses various internal and external stakeholder groups to provide feedback and recommendations on changes or new reporting.

Data Governance Resources

• High School and Beyond Plan Universal Platform Data Q&A
• Race and Ethnicity Materials
• Course Data Quality- doc #30633
• Data Governance System for K-12 Data: Policies and Procedures (2023)
• K-12 Education Data Governance and Statewide K-12 Longitudinal Education Data System Report to the Legislature (September 2010)
• Washington State K-12 Education Data Gap Analysis (June 2010)
• Washington State K-12 Education Research and Policy Questions Analysis (March 2010)
• K-12 Education Data Governance: Preliminary Report to the Legislature (November 2009)
• Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2261
• OSPI Open Data Plan (RCW 43.105.351)
• WATech Open Data Planning