During this time, the campaign was managed by the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA).
The organization shifted focus to its 10 State Actions to Ensure Effective Data Use.
Around the same time, the NCEA was being acquired by ACT, Inc. in 2007, and the Data Quality Campaign became a fully independent nonprofit organization in 2011.
[5][6][1][7] When the Campaign was launched, part of its mission was to promote 10 essential elements of a longitudinal data system to see a student's academic growth and the contribution of specific programs.
Raise Public Awareness: Promote strategies to raise awareness of available data and ensure that key stakeholders, including state policymakers, know how to access, analyze, and use the information The Data for Action (DFA) is an annual survey of all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico on their progress toward implementing DQC's 10 State Actions.
Beyond the 10 state actions, the DFA also includes questions on other data issues and attempts to identify best practices in the field.
While 35 states had the policies and funding to support a data system, only 5 made sure that it was accessible and usable for various stakeholders.
To help, they issued five recommendations to guide states in 2013:[20] DQC spoke out in favor of the Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R.
4366; 113th Congress), a bill to amend and reauthorize the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 and authorize the appropriation of $615 million for fiscal year 2015 and $3.8 billion over the 2015-2019 period to support federal educational research, statistical analysis, and other activities.
[21][22] In addition to the yearly reports that DQC publishes based on the DFA, they also have a number of other publications, including one entitled "What Every Parent Should be Asking about Education Data" co-produced with the National PTA.