Solution requirements
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Technical requirements
- Accurately measures educational attainment at any jurisdictional level
- Modeled on other systems that collect life-event data, so we can learn from those other systems
- Inexpensive, best if only a modification of existing systems
- Can be phased in
- Allows evaluation of programs at local level, including local experiments
Political and ethical requirements
- Safeguards privacy
- Allows community colleges to claim alumni as graduates when they transfer to other institutions
- Does not impose a substantial fiscal burden on private schools
- Does not provide individual-level data on financial aid