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State Partners

The state's own record, kept current, on terms that buy nothing but the work.

A State Partner is the state's education agency, its commission for the Deaf and hard of hearing, or its school for the Deaf, paying a fixed annual share of the cost of keeping the state's file current. The share buys the annual update, a briefing, comparison access, and a named acknowledgment. It buys no editorial input, and no figure, code, or frame decision changes because of it.

1fixed annual share
0editorial input
51jurisdictions served
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What a State Partner receives and does not receive

Both columns are the product

Acknowledgment is a named line on the state page and nothing more. A partner sees its file under notice on the same terms as the bodies named in it, and may propose corrections only through the correction route.

The State Partner product
ReceivesDoes not receive
The state file license: the full narrative, workbook, and verification trail for its stateEditorial input into any file
The commissioned annual update at the next data cycle, with the delta of every figure and code that changedEarly sight of any file beyond the notice every named body receives
A briefing on the state file and on where the state sits in the national rollup, under the comparison rulesA ranking, a score, or a comparison the rules forbid
National comparison accessThe omission of any finding, or the omission of any body
A named acknowledgment on the state page, disclosed on the funding pageAny statement that the state, or any body in it, complies with anything
The even share

How the fee is set

  1. The cost is divided

    The annual cost of keeping a state's record current, the re-audit, the rollup, hosting and storage, corrections handling, and the advisory group, is divided across the jurisdictions it serves.

  2. A partner pays its share

    A participating body pays its share each year. Fees are fixed, issued on request, and not negotiated by entity size; the fee schedule is built from the program's run ledger, not from what any body might pay.

  3. The rest is sought, not sold

    The unfunded share is sought from national funders until participation closes it. A body that wants its file built or updated ahead of the calendar pays the build cost, and the file is released under the same rules as every other, with notice to every body named in it.

Other products

Defined, not discounted

Each is a defined product with fixed terms, disclosed on the funding page.

Reduced-rate state file license

For Deaf-led and disability organizations: the full state file at a reduced fixed rate. A defined product, not a discount, and it carries the same figures as every other copy.

Commissioned build

A state file built or updated ahead of the published calendar at the build cost; the requesting body is disclosed and the file is released on the same terms as every other.

National license

For institutions and commercial users, as two defined products: all fifty-one files, the national dataset at unit level, exports, the API, and re-audit alerts.

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Ask for the terms

The request route asks for the body, the state, the product, and a contact. The terms in force are sent within two business days.

As of 13 September 2026

0State Partners
2business days to send the terms

The State Partner enquiry route renders here; until then, use the contact page.