The Pennsylvania Governor’s Executive Order 2023-01 established the Pennsylvania Longitudinal Data System (PALDS), headed by an Executive Director. The EO’s intent is to bring together independent data sets related to education, workforce, and human services that would allow state agencies and policy makers to: understand long-term outcomes and contribute to better informed funding and policy decisions; spend less time finding and validating disparate data sources and more time analyzing it; establish transparent, trackable goals; develop partnerships to identify key research questions, performance measures, and outcomes; align investments to effective programming; and demonstrate progress towards workforce system goals and recommendations. The EO also established a Governance Board to coordinate evaluation of policy and use of findings. The PALDS program efforts also are guided by the Director of Research for the Governor’s Office who works cross-department and cross-agency to track and identify the Administration’s impact on the Commonwealth.