Council of Chief State School Officers

The Council of Chief State School Officers is a nonpartisan organization of public officials nationwide who head state departments of elementary and secondary education. The council has a high profile and provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. With this organizational effectiveness grant, the council will build its internal capacity to openly license its materials and serve as an advocate for open licensure among its peers and constituents.

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a membership association that serves the heads of state departments of elementary and secondary education. CCSSO would help provide support for Learning Registry - known as "the card catalog for digital resources" - focusing on working on the governance, maintenance, and future upgrades of Learning Registry with guidance and technical support from its members, and other entities such as its partners, the U.S. Department of Education, and other people and groups interested in Open Education Resources (OER). This work is expected to advance the OER program's strategic goal of supporting a robust technical and institutional infrastructure for the broader OER stakeholder community.

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a nonpartisan organization of public officials nationwide who head state departments of elementary and secondary education. It provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues.This Organizational Effectiveness grant will allow CCSSO to strengthen its monitoring and effectiveness capacity and develop a tool to measure the progress of states in implementing deeper learning throughout their K-12 education systems.