State Policy Inventory Database Online (SPIDO) is a joint project between WICHE and the Pathways to College Network. SPIDO is designed to provide state and national policymakers, education leaders, practitioners and education consumers with an inventory of state-level policies and resources in key policy issue areas related to student achievement, access and success in higher education.

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Key Features and Troubleshooting

The State Policy Inventory Database Online is designed to provide state policymakers, educational leaders, and education consumers with an inventory of state-level policies in key policy domains. These policy domains are those that most directly impact student achievement, access and success in higher education.

This policy inventory can be utilized to monitor, describe, organize and analyze state level policies. It is designed as a method of taking stock of policies that exist in each state to support the preparation, access and success in higher education of educationally and economically disadvantage populations.

LINKS TO STATE POLICY SOURCES:
These links will take you directly to the web page for locating state statutes or state higher education board policies. From this source page, click on the hyperlink where available to go directly to the policy. Link to State Policy Sources
POLICY ISSUES AND DEFINITIONS:
This page provides brief definitions of the policy issues utilized to categorize the state policies that are included in this database. Link to Policy domains and Definitions
LINKS TO STATE GOVERNANCE WEBSITES:
At the top of each state and policy issue report page, you will find a governance link to state strategic plans, governor's web pages, and state education agencies.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCE HYPERLINKS:
Included with each state and policy issue report are hyperlinks to additional information and resources.

TROUBLESHOOTING

Occasionally, SPIDO users can run into trouble when trying to click on the statute hyperlinks. This is a result of states using many different databases and systems for presenting data. The following information is intended to help users navigate through some of the more common problems.

Some state websites are created in a way that prevents SPIDO from linking directly to their statutes. To access laws in these states, follow the links below to the main statute pages (also located on the output pages generated by SPIDO) and conduct the search from that web location:

District of Columbia:
http://government.westlaw.com/linkedslice/default.asp?SP=DCC-1000
New Mexico:
http://www.conwaygreene.com/nmsu/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm&2.0
Other state websites require you to access their site before the links on SPIDO will function correctly.
Arkansas:
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/NXT/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=blr:codeAfter you visit this site once, Arkansas’ statute website will recognize your computer, and the SPIDO hyperlinks will function properly.

If you are still having trouble, please contact Demarée Michelau, senior policy analyst and director of special projects, at 303.541.0223 or dmichelau@wiche.edu.