“Data.ed.gov Launches
On June 17, the U.S. Department of Education launched a new website,
Data.ed.gov, which will increase access to education data. The site will ultimately serve as a one-stop shop where practitioners, researchers, and the public can access information about Department grant programs. Through the Web site and other initiatives, the Department will make the grantmaking process more transparent to the public by providing easily accessible data about applications as well as applicants and their partners. The site will protect applicants’ privacy and proprietary information.
The first competitive grant program featured on
Data.ed.gov is the Investing in Innovation Fund (i3), which received nearly 1,700 applications before the competition closed in May. The public can now view detailed information on all i3 applicants and run customized reports and summary analyses on subsets of applicants. The i3 data reflects the information that the Department received from applicants; it has not been reviewed for eligibility or otherwise modified by the Department. By offering this data, the Department is fulfilling President Obama’s promise to provide unprecedented transparency for programs funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
“The public has the right to know more about the efforts we consider funding, what programs and projects we do fund, and what outcomes we are achieving with those efforts,” said Secretary Arne Duncan. “
Data.ed.gov extends our commitment to transparency and provides additional tools that allow the public to analyze ED’s investments….”
For more:
http://www.ed.gov/blog/