This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format.
Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date].
| State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 CA | Vetoed 09/2012 | P-12
Postsec. | From final bill analysis: Authorizes the California Department of Education , the University of California, the California State University, the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the state board, the Employment Development Department and the California School Information Services to enter into a joint powers agreement to facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive longitudinal P-20 statewide data system, as well as the transfer of educational and workforce data.
Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0851-0900/sb_885_bill_20120830_enrolled.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_885_Veto_Message.pdf
Final bill analysis: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0851-0900/sb_885_cfa_20120825_115312_sen_floor.html
Title: S.B. 885
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Creates the North Carolina longitudinal data system - a statewide data system that contains individual-level student data and workforce data from all levels of education and the State's workforce, and its and governing board; and provides that private colleges and universities, nonpublic schools, and the north carolina independent colleges and universities are not liable for a breach of confidentiality caused by the act or omission of a state agency, local school administrative unit, community college, or constituent institution of the University of North Carolina. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H964v4.pdf
Title: H.B. 964
Source: ncleg.net
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| MI | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | (Sec. 19) Directs the department to work with interested stakeholders to develop recommendations on the implementation of statewide standard reporting requirements for education data no later than 2014-2015. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billconcurred/House/pdf/2012-HCB-5372.pdf
Title: H.B. 5372
Source: legislature.mi.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Amends provisions related to the statewide education management information system. Requires that the assignment of data verification codes for other entities (i.e., any state agency that administers a publicly funded program providing services to children younger than compulsory school age, including the directors of health, job and family services, mental health, and developmental disabilities), the use of those codes, and the reporting and use of associated individual student data be coordinated by the department of education in accordance with state and federal law. Clarifies districts as the entities responsible for reporting individual student data to the department. Requires the aforementioned other entities to report individual student data to the department in the manner prescribed by the department. Adds that community schools must ensure the data verification code is included in the student's records reported to any subsequent school district, community school, or state institution of higher education in which the student enrolls (previously only districts required to include this code in transferred records).
For purposes of state data collection, defines "early childhood program"as any publicly funded program providing services to children younger than compulsory school age. Requires that student-level data records maintained for administering early childhood programs be assigned a unique student data verification code and be included in the combined data repository. Authorizes the department to require certain personally identifiable student data to be reported to the department for purposes of administering early childhood programs but to not be included in the combined data repository. Limits release of personally-identifiable information to certain individuals in compliance with FERPA. Authorizes any state agency administering an early childhood program to use student data in the combined data repository to evaluate the effectiveness of and investments in that program, in compliance with FERPA and related regulations.
Pages 26-27, 37-38, 45-46 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - State Data System
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | From K-12 appropriations bill: Permits at-risk funds to be used for student programs to improve the efficiency and utilization of technology-based resources in the classroom. Provides that appropriation to the at-risk student program includes $750,000 appropriation for the Alabama Student Information Management System (ASIMS). Page 12 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - At-Risk Students
Source:
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | From K-12 appropriations bill: Provides that of appropriation to the School Nurses Program, $250,000 is appropriated for the collection and management of statewide student health data, school by school, by means of the Alabama Student Information Management System (ASIMS). Page 13 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - Student Health Data
Source: www.alsde.edu
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Provides that $950,000 of the appropriation to the Governor's High Hopes for Alabama Students program be expended to link the Alabama Student Information Management Systems (ASIMS) to students' home computers. Page 27 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - Student Data
Source: www.alsde.edu
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2012 | Postsec. | Provides that a private college or university that submits confidential student data and records to the office of student achievement cannot be held liable for the breach of the confidentiality of such data and records by the office of student achievement. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127805.pdf
Title: S.B. 405
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 04/2012 | Postsec. | Requires colleges and universities eligible to participate in the William L. Boyd, IV, Florida Resident Access Grant Program to report student-level data for each student who receives state funds. At a minimum, requires data to be reported annually to the department and to include retention rates, transfer rates, completion rates, graduation rates, employment and placement rates, and earnings of graduates.
http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7135er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7135&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7135 - Private Institutions' Reporting of Performance Data
Source: myfloridahouse.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2011 | Community College | From bill summary: Requires the office of the chancellor of the California Community Colleges, by January 1, 2012, to implement a procedure to facilitate the electronic receipt and transmission of student transcripts by districts. Also requires all community college districts, contingent upon the office of the chancellor's receipt of new, one-time state, federal or philanthropic funding sufficient for this purpose and as a
condition for receiving funding, to implement a process for the receipt and transmission of electronic student transcripts. Requires the office of the chancellor to determine the requirements and procedures for dispersing those funds to participating community college districts and to report to appropriate legislative committees, a year after funds are dispersed, the community colleges that have adopted electronic transcripts and the remaining community colleges that have yet to adopt the electronic transcript delivery system. Allows a community college district that has elected to implement a process for the receipt and transmission of electronic student transcripts to later opt out of the program in any subsequent year. States the intent of the legislature in enacting this measure, and repeals its provisions on January 1, 2015. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1051-1100/ab_1056_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1056
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NV | Issued 10/2011 | P-12 | Directs the P-16 council to discuss a strategy for conducting a review of existing data systems in the state and making recommendations for the design and implementation of a quality statewide longitudinal education data system tracking student and educator data from early learning through postsecondary. Requires that the recommendations address:
(1) Establishing a cross-agency governance structure with representatives holding decisionmaking authority
(2) Identifying resource needs in the areas of staffing, technology and funding
(3) Developing policies outlining issues related to data sharing, data storage, data updating, privacy protection, who will conduct analyses, etc.
(4) Creating a vision for the state's longitudinal data system to ensure it supports the state's education and workforce development needs
(5) Any necessary legislation to carry out the council's recommendations.
Requires quarterly reports to the governor, such that work on all assignments is completed by August 1, 2012.
http://gov.nv.gov/news/item/4294972270
Title: EO # 2011-17
Source: gov.nv.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Allows school superintendents or their designees to access the state's public school information system to obtain mastery test information about individual students enrolled in or transferring to their districts. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00136-R00HB-06499-PA.pdf
Title: H.B. 6499 - Sec. 15
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Directs the Department of Education to require school districts to include unique identifiers or state-assigned student identifiers on student transcripts (under existing law, such identifiers are assigned to all students tracked by the Early Childhood Information System). Directs the Department of Higher Education to require public and independent higher education institutions receiving state funding to track such identifiers for all in-state students enrolled at the institution until the student graduates or is no longer enrolled. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/Pa/pdf/2011PA-00070-R00SB-00858-PA.pdf
Title: S.B. 858 - K-12 Provisions
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Establishes the Information Technology Service Fund. Provides that the fund consists of money received by the eTech Ohio commission pursuant to agreements with educational entities for the provision of IT services to support initiatives to align education from preschool through college, and any other money deposited into the fund by the commission. Provides the fund must be used to provide the services specified in the agreements, including implementation and maintenance of an electronic clearinghouse for student transcript transfers and development of the education data repository.
Pages 460-461 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Information Technology Service Fund
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Community College
Postsec. | Clarifies that the Information Resources Management Act does not apply to public junior colleges and public junior college districts. Provides certain exceptions.
Bill text: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB01495F.pdf#navpanes=0
Information Resources Management Act: http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/docs/gv/htm/gv.2054.htm
Title: H.B. 1495
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Repeals the provisions of law that require local school units to request and report student social security numbers to the state Department of Education. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/chapters/PUBLIC223.asp
Title: H.P. 399
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| PA | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Places a moratorium on the personal data collected by the departments of public welfare and education except for those data points needed to comply with federal law, distribute funds and maintain the health and safety of children.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/FN/2011/0/HB1352P2227.pdf
Title: H.B. 1352
Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2011 | Postsec. | Provides that information is excepted from public disclosure laws if it is collected or produced by a systemwide compliance office for the purpose of reviewing compliance processes at a university system's member institution. Provides that information that is confidential or excepted from public disclosure may be made available to (1) a governmental agency responsible for investigating a matter that is the subject of a compliance report, including the Texas Workforce Commission civil rights division or the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; or (2) an officer or employee of an institution of higher education or a compliance officer or employee of a university system administration who is responsible under institutional or system policy for a compliance program investigation or for reviewing a compliance program investigation. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB01327F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 1327
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Directs the state superintendent to forward that portion of a district's state aid that is attributable to the acquisition and use of PowerSchool and any related technology support services directly to the Information Technology Department. If the state aid exceeds the amount needed for the use and implementation of PowerSchool, the funds must be returned to the state department to be redistributed to districts in per student payments.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/62-2011/documents/11-0208-12000.pdf
Title: S.B. 2150 - Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zone Act:
Creates the Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zone Act to: (1) Provide for the establishment of Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zones to increase graduation rates and reduce the number of dropouts; (2) Provide schools and communities with opportunities for greater collaboration to plan and implement systemic approaches that include evidence-based solutions for increasing graduation rates and reducing the number of dropouts; (3) Provide a testing ground for innovative graduation programs, incentives and approaches to reducing the number of dropouts; (4) Provide information regarding the effects of specific innovations, collaborations and policies on graduation rates and dropout prevention and recovery; and (5) Document educational strategies that increase graduation rates, prevent dropouts and enhance student success. Provides the application process, contents, factors to be considered in evaluating the applications and standards for review for designating schools/school districts Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zones.
Early Warning Indicator System:
Directs the state board to develop a statewide system in electronic format that will provide schools with easily identifiable early warning indicators of students at risk of not graduating from high school. Requires the system to be delivered through the uniform integrated regional computer information system (the West Virginia Education Information System) and to at a minimum incorporate data on the attendance, academic performance and disciplinary infractions of individual students. Directs the state board to require implementation of the system in Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zones along with a plan of interventions to increase the number of students earning a high school diploma. Provides that the zones may be used as a pilot test of the system.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB228%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=228
Title: S.B. 228
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Defines "local instructional improvement system" as a system that uses electronic and digital tools that provide teachers, administrators, students, and parents with data and resources to systematically manage continuous instructional improvement. The system supports relevant activities such as instructional planning, information gathering and analysis, rapid-time reporting, decisionmaking on appropriate instructional sequence, and evaluating the effectiveness of instruction. Requires the system to integrate instructional information with student-level data to provide predictions of future student achievement. Requires that each school district provide teachers, administrators, students, and parents with access to such information. Added provision that requires system to including the ability to connect student assessment data with electronic and digital instructional materials, to enable district staff to plan, create, and manage professional development and to connect professional development with staff information
and student performance data, and to provide the ability to seamlessly connect the local instructional improvement system to
electronic and digital content. Requires the state board to adopt rules to administer this section.
http://laws.flrules.org/2011/55
Title: S.B. 2150 - Sec. 19
Source: http://laws.flrules.org
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2011 | Community College | Requires the state board for community and technical colleges to establish minimum standards with respect to common
student identifiers such that once a student has enrolled at any community or technical college he or she retains the same
student identification upon transfer to any college district. Effective 07/22/2011
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5463.PL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5463
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec.
Community College | Creates the Arkansas Higher Education Information System, to be developed by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. Defines scope of system and information it will record. Requires that information be made available to the legislature, and that procedures for redacting personally identifying information be put in place. Requires institutions to report information to the system and defines penalties for noncompliance.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/HB2142
Title: H.B. 2142
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| CA | Signed into law 03/2011 | Community College | From bill summary: Under existing law, a community college or community college district may not permit any person to access student records without the written consent of the student or under judicial order for access, with specified exceptions generally relating to education. Existing law provides that a person, persons, agency, or organization that is permitted access to student records is prohibited from further disclosing the records without the written consent of the student.
This bill allows a person, persons, agency, or organization that is permitted access to student records to disclose them pursuant to the extent permitted under specified federal and state laws.
Pages 52-53 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20110324_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 70 - Sec. 76243
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Appropriates $2,257,000 from the Federal Trust Fund to the state department of education, in accordance with a specified schedule, for purposes of the implementation and support of the CALPADS (California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System). Requires the state department of education, as a condition of receiving funds to administer CALPADS, to ensure that local educational agencies are provided with standardized templates that include prepopulated data necessary to meet the requirements of the School Accountability Report Card. Page 75 of 81: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20110324_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 70 - Sec. 54 and 55
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Provides for the development of a state longitudinal data system (SLDS) to establish a multi-agency database to track educational and student outcomes in the workforce. Provides for interagency cooperation with the SLDS. Provides for an SLDS governing board.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/SB/2300-2399/SB2371SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2371
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 03/2011 | P-12 | Would expand data collection and reporting requirements to include the number of student expulsions and suspensions. The data would organized by age, gender, and race/ethnicity; include student enrollment by English language homeless or low-income program; and indicate whether students had been retained. In addition, reports would include data on student violations on school property.
http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/bills/house/HB0321.pdf
Title: H.B. 321
Source: http://www.nmlegis.gov/
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Department of Education is charged with:
--Establishing a longitudinal data system to provide reporting on all aspects of the statewide education accountability system
--Reporting statewide assessment and benchmark assessment results which should link students to teachers-of-record and school
administrators
Title: S.F. 70--State Student Information System
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2010 | P-12 | From bill summary: Requires the department of education, contingent on federal funding for this purpose and in consultation with the department of finance and the legislative analyst's office, to prepare the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) to include data on a quarterly rate of pupil attendance. Requires that CALPADS be capable of issuing to local educational agencies periodic reports on district, school, class and individual pupil rates of absence and chronic absentees. States legislative intent to support the development of early warning systems to identify and support individual pupils who are at risk of academic failure or of dropping out of school.
Existing law requires the superintendent of public instruction annually to submit to the governor, the legislature, and the state board of education a report on dropouts using the data produced by CALPADS.
New provision requires the report to include chronic absentee rates when that data is available. Makes implementation of the provisions regarding the inclusion of pupil attendance data in CALPADS contingent upon the appropriation of federal funds specifically for such purposes. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1357_bill_20100930_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1357
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2010 | P-12 | To the extent consistent with federal and state privacy laws, authorizes local educational agency (LEA) grantees funded through to the After School Education and Safety Program and grants for 21st Century Community Learning Centers programs to submit the following information to afterschool program operators with which the LEA has a contract:
(a) School attendance data
(b) Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program test scores, and scores on individual California Standards Tests
(c) High school exit exam scores
(d) English language development test placement or reclassification scores
(e) California Healthy Kids Survey results in aggregate form.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2178_bill_20100929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2178
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2010 | Postsec.
Community College | Requires community colleges receiving funds under this appropriations bill to cooperate with the state to comply with the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, requiring the establishment of a statewide P-20 longitudinal data system. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/publicact/htm/2010-PA-0165.htm
Title: S.B. 1151 - Sec. 405
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2010 | Postsec. | From bill analysis: Existing law creates the California Education Information System, consisting of the CALPADS (California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System) and the CALTIDES (California Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data Education System). Adds an expression of legislative intent that, as the California Education Information System is implemented over time, access to public information already available on various measures of the quality of teacher preparation programs be available in electronic format and be accessible to the extent practicable through downloadable pages and reports accessible to the public in a consolidated manner. Requires all teacher preparation programs, including but not limited to local educational agencies or other programs not accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, to provide information to prospective candidates on the licensure exam pass rates of its program completers for the most recent available year, if that data is available electronically through the Commission on Teacher Credentialing Web site. Provides the link may also include access to additional data from the commission and from the CALTIDES regarding the types of programs offered and data on program effectiveness.
Redefines "qualifying institution" for purposes of the Cal Grant Program to mean any institution that is (1) either a California private or independent postsecondary educational institution that participates in specified
federal student aid programs, a nonprofit institution that is headquartered and operating in California that meets specified criteria, or a California public postsecondary educational institution AND (2) that complies with a requirement to provide information on where to access California licensure exam pass rates for graduates of undergraduate programs leading to employment for which passage of a California licensing exam is required, if that data is electronically available through the Web site of a California licensing or regulatory agency. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_2051-2100/ab_2086_bill_20100924_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2086
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2010 | Postsec. | Amends the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act. Provides that beginning July 2012, the board of higher education is authorized to collect and maintain data from any non-public institution of higher learning that confers graduate and professional degrees. Directs the board of higher education to seek grant funding for a consortium that includes non-public institutions of higher learning, so as to provide assistance in the development of a data collection system. Provides that data submitted to the board of higher education by a consortium of non-public colleges and universities is prohibited from being included in any interstate data-sharing agreements with other states unless consortium participants agree to allow interstate data sharing. Permits any non-public college to prohibit its data from being shared with any other state, and/or from being included in any interstate data-sharing agreement. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-1249.pdf
Title: H.B. 6092
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Requires school improvement teams to use the Education Value Added Assessment System (EVAAS) or a compatible and comparable system approved by the State Board of Education, to analyze student data to identify root causes for problems and to determine actions to address them. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1669v2.pdf
Title: H.B. 1669
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires early childhood programs and postsecondary institutions to submit a report to the department of education containing information on pupil indicators
in the following areas:
(a) Attendance rates.
(b) Annual and cumulative drop-out rates of high school pupils and annual drop-out rates for pupils in grades 7 and 8.
(c) School environment indicators, such as safe-schools data.
(d) Number and percentage of graduating pupils going on to post-secondary education, military service, and advanced placement participation.
(e) Performance on state tests administered pursuant to RSA 193-C and other standardized tests administered at local option.
(f) Expulsion and suspension rates, including in-school and out-of-school suspensions, which shall be reported for each school year.
(g) Number and percentage of classes taught by highly qualified teachers.
(h) Teacher and administrative turnover rates at the school and district levels.
Requires the department of education to collect and integrate such information into the data warehouse. Requires early childhood programs and postsecondary institutions to participate in the unique pupil identification system.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2010/SB0503.html
Title: S.B. 503
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| NY | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Makes an appropriation of $20,400,000 to the state education department for services and expenses related to implementing a state longitudinal data system.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A11309&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 11309
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to a data reporting request based on individual student identifiers, including dropouts, and those enrolled in literacy programs and college basic skills courses.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2010a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/42E285F47258D0C6872576AC0055EA3A?open&file=1171_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1171
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Requires the superintendent of public instruction to enter into contracts with public or private entities to evaluate the existing system of data collection, compilation and reported conducted by the state department of education on or before August 1, 2010 and award a contract no later than October 1, 2010. Stipulates that the contracts from the state department of education be awarded subject to the appropriation of state funds or the receipt of federal funds, private donations, or grants from any lawful public or private source for this purpose. Stipulates that the request for proposals must require the evaluation of the student accountability information system and the data warehouse and indicates what data must be included. Requires the superintendent to provide copies of the written report to the governor, the speaker of the state house of representatives, the president of the senate and the joint legislative budget council within 30 days of receiving the report. Requires the state department of education to issue an additional request for proposal to replace or update the student accountability information system and indicates what the contractor is to perform. Specifies what must be included in the information system and what must be included before the state superintendent awards a contract. Establishes the Data Governance Commission and describes its membership. Requires the commission to identify, examine and evaluate the needs of public institutions who provide instruction to pupils in preschool, K-12 and postsecondary programs in Arizona and to perform the following: (1) Establish guidelines related to managed data access, technology, privacy and security, adequacy of training, adequacy of data model implementation, prioritization of funding opportunities and resolution of data conflicts; (2) provide recommendations on technology spending; (3) provide analysis and recommendations on the control of data confidentiality and data security, access privileges and management, data audit management, data standards for storage and data transmission, documentation standards, data archival and retrieval management systems, publication of reports, timelines and progress; (4) submit an annual report to the governor, the speaker of the house, president of the senate and provide copies of the report to the secretary of state. Establishes a Task Force on Data Systems and charges the task force with designing a request for proposals form to be used by the department of education. Chapter 334
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/hb2733s.pdf
Title: H.B. 2733
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Directs the state department of education to, on or before July 1, 2013, expand the state-wide public school information system as follows:
(1) Track and report data relating to student, teacher and school and district performance growth and make such information available to local and regional boards of education for use in evaluating educational performance and growth of teachers and students enrolled in public schools in the state; (2) Collect data relating to student enrollment in and graduation from institutions of higher education for any student who had been assigned a unique student identifier, provided such data is available; (3) Develop means for access to and data sharing with the data systems of public institutions of higher education in the state. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/PA/2010PA-00111-R00SB-00438-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 438 - Sec. 3
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Establishes the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council within the state department of education; details the council's membership and provides that the council is responsible for (1) assisting board of education in the development and implementation of the teacher evaluation guidelines and (2) data collection and evaluation support system (see Sec. 5 of the bill). http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/PA/2010PA-00111-R00SB-00438-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 438 - Sec. 5
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Requires any school district that is not in compliance with the standards and requirements established by the State Board of Education related to the state student record system as provided in Section 3-160 to forfeit its state aid for the time of noncompliance.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB2211_ENR.RTF
Title: S.B. 2211
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires the department of education, the University of Hawaii, and the department of labor and industrial relations, and other state agencies to share data to support research that will improve educational and workforce outcomes and meet the longitudinal data requirements of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Directs the aforementioned agencies to jointly determine the data to be shared, and to share data at least annually, in a manner that protects the confidentiality of student information. Directs the aforementioned agencies to establish a data governance and access committee that meets on a quarterly basis to determine protocols to prioritize analyses and research questions that will provide information to (1) improve educational and workforce outcomes and policies, and (2) approve requests for access to data provided by the department of education, the University of Hawaii, the department of labor and industrial, and other state agencies, as appropriate. Directs all state agency directors to consider sharing data for the statewide longitudinal data system. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/SB2122_SD1_.HTM
Title: S.B. 2122
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides for the calculation of state aid for unified systems and makes changes related to the early childhood education programs to be included in the calculation of state aid, as well as district responsibilities for students participating in open enrollment. Also changes the graduate program requirements for the Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program to include graduate studies other than teacher education programs. Among other provisions, removes a redundant reporting requirement for county assessors to certify taxable value of school districts; clarifies residency provisions for school districts; modifies qualifications for preschool programs that receive state aid funds; and harmonizes the calculation of unused budget authority with recent changes in the budget authority provisions for school districts. Defines the educational service unit coordinating council as a political subdivision, but does not grant taxing authority. Also requires the board to adopt a policy for sharing student data with the University of Nebraska Regents, the Nebraska State Colleges board of trustees and the board of governors from each community college area.
http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB1071.pdf
Title: L.B. 1071
Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes the Maryland Longitudinal Data System (MLDS) as a statewide data system that contains individual-level student data and workforce data from all levels of education and the state's workforce. The bill also establishes a Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center within state government to serve as a central repository for the data, to ensure compliance with federal privacy laws, to perform research on the data sets, and to fulfill education reporting requirements and approved public information requests. The governing board of the center must submit an annual report by December 15 to the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill takes effect July 1, 2010. The requirement that state agencies, local education agencies (LEAs), and educational institutions submit data to the center in accordance with specified plans, terminates June 30, 2011. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/sb/sb0275e.pdf
Title: S.B. 275
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Provides for an educational data system that serves pre-kindergarten through post-graduate education. Officials will establish a data system to: (1) collect, integrate and report longitudinal student-level and educator data required to implement federally or state-required education performance accountability measures; (2) conduct research and evaluation
regarding federal, state and local education and training programs at all levels; and (3) audit and ensure compliance of those programs with applicable federal or state requirements. The data system shall include the use of a common student identifier for the prekindergarten through post-graduate system and an educator identifier, with the ability to match data about students, educators, post-secondary education programs and other educational agencies.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/10%20Regular/final/HB0070.pdf
Title: H.B. 70
Source: http://nmlegis.gov/
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| TN | Signed into law 03/2010 | Postsec. | Prevents the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association and its member institutions from being held liable for breach of confidentiality of student data or records that are required to be submitted to THEC, if the breach was a result of the actions of the commission or its staff.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB2793.pdf
Title: S.B. 2793
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/
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| CO | Issued 03/2010 | P-12 | The Commission is to ensure and advance a comprehensive service delivery system for children from birth to age eight using data to improve decision-making, alignment, and coordination among federally-funded and state-funded services and programs. The Early Childhood Colorado Framework will be the Commission's guide for developing this service delivery system across child health, child mental health, early learning, and family support and parent education. The initial charge of the Commission will be to focus on the development of an interagency data system, established by H.B. 09-1285, which expanded data tracking and usage across the multiple agencies and programs. This data system will provide the infrastructure to monitor progress towards meeting the outcomes identified in the Framework.
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobheadername1=Content-Disposition&blobheadername2=MDT-Type&blobheadervalue1=inline%3B+filename%3D636%2F716%2FB+2010-002+%28Early+Childhood+Leadership+Commission%29+Search.pdf&blobheadervalue2=abinary%3B+charset%3DUTF-8&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1251607769244&ssbinary=true
Title: Exec. Order B 2010-002
Source: http://www.colorado.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Amends 105 ILCS 5/2-3.25g. After effective date, bars districts, joint agreements of districts or regional superintendents from seeking a waiver or modification of a mandate requiring (i) student performance
data to be a significant factor in teacher or principal evaluations or (ii) teachers and principals to be rated using the categories of "excellent", "proficient", "needs improvement" or "unsatisfactory". Requires any previously authorized waiver or modification from such requirements to terminate.
Creates new 105 ILCS 5/24A-2.5. Defines "evaluator" to include an adminstrator or other qualified individuals. Allows Chicago district to require department chairs to evaluate teachers in their department(s), provided the district bargains with its teacher bargaining representative over the impact of such a requirement on department chairs. Defines "implementation date" : (1) for Chicago, as at least 300 schools by September 2012 and the remaining schools by September 2013; (2) for other districts receiving a Race to the Top grant or School Improvement [under ESEA/NCLB] grant, as the date specified in those grants for implementing a teacher and principal evaluation system incorporating student growth; (3) for the lowest performing 20% of districts outside Chicago (to be determined by state superintendent), September 2015; (4) for all other districts outside Chicago, September 2016.
Amends 105 ILCS 5/24A-3. Requires evaluators to participate in inservice training on evaluating certified personnel before performing any evaluation, and at least once during each certificate renewal cycle. Requires any evaluator performing an evaluation after September 1, 2012 to first complete a state board-approved prequalification program. Requires that the program include rigorous training and an independent observer's determination that the evaluator's ratings properly align to state board-established requirements.
Amends 105 ILCS 5/24A-4. Directs every district, by its applicable implementation date, in good faith cooperation with its teachers or teachers' exclusive bargaining representatives, to incorporate student growth data/indicators as a significant factor in teacher performance ratings and its evaluation plan for all teachers. Specifies criteria that each district's evaluation plan must meet, including among others the criteria other than student growth that will be used in evaluating the teacher, and the weight that each will have. Describes a joint committee, composed equally of district- and teacher- (or collective bargaining unit-) selected representation, that each district must use to incorporate the use of student growth data in rating teacher performance into the evaluation plan. Provides that if a joint committee does not reach agreement on the plan within 180 days of the committee's first meeting, the district must implement the model evaluation plan set forth in Section 24A-7; provides that if Chicago's joint committee does not reach agreement on the plan within 90 days of the committee's first meeting, the district will not be required to implement any aspect of the model evaluation plan and may implement its last best proposal.
Amends 24A-5. By September 2012, requires each district to establish a teacher evaluation plan that ensures evaluations at least once every school year for each teacher not in contractual continued service, and at least every two school years for each teacher in contractual continued service [i.e., untenured and tenured teachers]. Requires that any teacher in contractual continued service who receives a "needs improvement" or "unsatisfactory" performance rating be evaluated at least once in the school year following the receipt of such rating. Specifies that nothing bars a principal from evaluating any teachers within a school during
his or her first year as principal of such school. Identifies performance ratings (terms) that must be applied to teachers in contractual continued service before and after September 2012. Within 30 days of completion of an evaluation rating a teacher in contractual continued service as "needs improvement", requires the evaluator, in consultation with the teacher, to develop a professional development plan, directed
to the areas that need improvement and any supports that the district will provide to address the areas needing improvement. Requires that a teacher in contractual continued service who receives an "unsatisfactory" evaluation rating participate in a remediation plan, including 90 days of in-classroom remediation, unless an applicable collective bargaining agreement provides for a shorter duration. Requires the evaluator to conduct a mid-point and final evaluation during and at the end of the remediation period. Specifies that nothing in statute prohibits the dismissal or non-renewal of teachers not in contractual continued service
for any reason not prohibited by applicable employment, labor and civil rights laws.
Amends 24A-7. Directs the state board to adopt rules:
(1) Relating to the methods for measuring student growth (including, but not limited to, limitations on the age of useable data; the amount of data needed to reliably and validly measure growth for the purpose of teacher and principal evaluations; and whether and at what time annual state assessments may be used as one of multiple measures of student growth)
(2) Defining the term "significant factor" for purposes of including consideration of student growth in performance ratings
(3) Controlling for such factors as student characteristics (including students receiving special education and English Language Learner services), student attendance, and student mobility to best measure the impact that a teacher, principal, school and district have on students' academic achievement
(4) Establishing minimum requirements for district teacher and principal evaluation instruments and procedures
(5) Establishing a model evaluation plan for use by districts, in which student growth must comprise 50% of the performance rating.
Specifies that the rules may not preclude the Chicago district from using an annual state assessment as the sole measure of student growth for purposes of teacher or principal evaluations. Requires that the rules be developed through collaboration with a Performance Evaluation Advisory Council, whose members must be selected by the state superintendent and include representatives of teacher unions and school district
management, persons with expertise in performance evaluation processes and systems, as well as other stakeholders. Requires that the council meet at least quarterly until June 30, 2017.
Creates new 105 ILCS 5/24A-7.1. Prohibits disclosure of public school teacher, principal and superintendent performance evaluations.
Amends 105 ILCS 5/24A-15. Provides that, effective September 2012, each district's principal evaluation plan must rate the principal's performance as "excellent", "proficient", "needs improvement" or "unsatisfactory", and must ensure every principal is evaluated at least once every school year. Repeals provision requiring that principal evaluations align with the Illinois Professional Standards for
School Leaders or research-based district standards; replaces with provision that principal evaluations align with research-based standards established by administrative rule. Effective September 2012, requires principal evaluations to provide for the use of data and indicators on student growth as a significant factor in rating performance.
Adds new 105 ILCS 5/24A-20. Directs the state board, with the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council, to develop and implement the following data collection and evaluation assessment and support systems:
(1) A system to annually collect and publish data by district and school on teacher and administrator performance evaluation outcomes
(2) Both a teacher and principal model evaluation template that allow customization by districts that does not conflict with statutory requirements
(3) An evaluator pre-qualification program based on the model teacher evaluation template
(4) An evaluator training program based on the model teacher evaluation template
(5) A superintendent training program based on the model principal evaluation template
(6) One or more instruments to provide feedback to principals on the school's instructional environment
(7) A state board-provided or -approved technical assistance system that supports districts in the development and implementation of teacher and principal evaluation systems
(8) Web-based systems and tools supporting implementation of the model templates and the evaluator pre-qualification and training programs
(9) A process for measuring and reporting correlations between local principal and teacher evaluations and (A) student growth in tested grades and subjects and (B) teacher retention rates
(10) A process for assessing whether district evaluation systems developed pursuant to this Act and that consider student growth as a significant factor in teacher and principal performance ratings are valid and reliable, contribute to the development of staff, and improve student achievement outcomes. By September 2014, requires that a research-based study be issued (a) assessing such systems for validity and reliability, contribution to the development of staff, and improvement of student performance and (b) recommending, based on the results of this study, any changes that need to be incorporated into teacher and principal evaluation systems that consider student growth as a significant factor in the rating performance.
Specifies that these data collection and support systems must be developed by September 30, 2011 if Illinois receives a Race to the Top grant, and by September 30, 2012 if the state does not receive a Race to the Top grant. Adds that aforementioned items (3) and (4) (evaluator pre-qualification program and evaluator training program, both based on the model teacher evaluation template) must be developed by September 30, 2011, regardless of whether the state is awarded a Race to the Top grant. Also directs the state board (by September 2011 if the state does receive and by September 2012 if the state does not receive a Race to the Top grant) to execute or contract for the execution of the assessment in aforementioned item (10) above to determine whether local evaluation systems developed pursuant to this Act have been valid and reliable, contributed to the development of staff, and improved student performance.
Requires districts to submit data and information to the state board on teacher and principal performance evaluations and evaluation plans. Requires that such data include: (i) data on the performance rating given to all teachers in contractual continued service, (ii) data on district recommendations to renew or not renew teachers not in contractual continued service, and (iii) data on the performance rating given to all principals. Provides that if the state board does not timely fulfill any of the requirements set forth in Sections 24A-7 and 24A-20, and adequate and sustainable federal, state or other funds are not provided to the state board and districts to meet their responsibilities, the applicable implementation date must be postponed by the number of calendar days equal to those needed by the state board to fulfill such requirements and for the
adequate and sustainable funds to be provided to the state board and districts.
Amends 105 ILCS 5/34-8, regarding duties of the state superintendent. By September 2012, directs the superintendent or his/her designee to develop a written principal evaluation plan that addresses elements identified in 105 ILCS 5/24A-15.
Amends 105 ILCS 5/34-85c. Amends provisions that authorize districts and collective bargaining agents to establish alternative procedures for teacher evaluation, remediation and removal for cause after remediation. Provides that by September 2012, (i) any alternative procedures must include provisions whereby student performance data is a significant factor in teacher evaluation and (ii) teachers are rated as "excellent", "proficient", "needs improvement" or "unsatisfactory". http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-0861.pdf
Title: S.B. 315
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Authorizes the department of education, the University of California, the California State University, the chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the commission on teacher credentialing, the employment development department, and the California School Information Services to enter into agreements in order to facilitate the implementation of a longitudinal education data system. Page 6 of 32: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_1_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf
Specifies that these provisions become operative only if Senate Bill 4 of the Fifth Extraordinary Session of 2009-10 is also enacted (full text http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_4_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf). S.B. 4E was also enacted January 7, 2010.
Title: S.B. 1E - Section 4
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Sections below refer to sections of bill. Text below largely from Legislative Counsel's Digest:
Section 1: Amends Section 1798.24 of the Civil Code, relating to the release of personal information. Requires the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) to enter into a written agreement with the institutional review board to provide the required data security approvals for the release of data to researchers.
Section 2: Existing law directs the department to establish a process for but does not require districts to issue unique pupil identifiers to students in preschool programs. New provision *requires* center-based child care and development programs to maintain unique pupil identifiers. By January 2011, requires the department to establish a process for districts to issue, maintain, and report information using the unique statewide pupil identifiers for students in state- and federally-funded center-based child care and development programs under the department's purview. Establishes legislative intent that by January 2011, the department ensure that the preschool data elements described in the America COMPETES Act be collected for all district-operated preschool programs. Specifies that, except to the extent required by federal law, center-based child care and development programs are not required to implement unique pupil identifiers until an appropriation is provided.
Sections 4 and 5: Beginning July 2010, authorizes the department, to the extent permissible under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and state law, to conduct pupil data management on behalf of local educational agencies (LEAs). States legislative intent to accomplish specified objectives, including complying with all applicable federal laws, including FERPA, the California Constitution, and all applicable state laws, in order to protect pupil rights and privacy. Authorizes LEAs to access specified data via the state data system, and, to the extent permissible under federal and state law, to share specified data via the state data system. Requires the department to establish an education data team to act as an institutional review board to review and respond to all requests for pupil data. Requires the department, to the extent feasible, to redirect department personnel for the purposes of the education data team rather than establishing new positions. Makes the department responsible for data management decisions for data under its jurisdiction and makes the department and an LEA jointly liable for any data management decisions in which the department and the LEA participate jointly. Requires the department to develop appropriate
policies and procedures for the education data team by July 2010. Authorizes the department to assess a fee on research applicants to cover prescribed costs. Requires the department to perform the duties specified in these provisions with its existing resources. Makes these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2013, and repeals them on January 1, 2014.
Section 6: Establishes legislative intent to create a P-20 statewide longitudinal data system to inform education policy and improve instruction. Establishes intent to require the department of education, commission on teacher credentialing, California Commmunity Colleges, University of California and California State University and any other state agency to require the disclosure of personally identifiable pupil records to this P-20 system, as permissible under state and federal law. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_2_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 2E
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Adds Section 10601.6 to the education code. Permits districts to use data in the California Education Information System and/or any other data system to evaluate teachers and administrators and to make employment decisions, but only if these decisions comply with Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code. Pages 5-6 of 32: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_1_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf
Specifies that these provisions become operative only if Senate Bill 4 of the Fifth Extraordinary Session of 2009-10 is also enacted (full text http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_4_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf). S.B. 4E was also enacted January 7, 2010.
Title: S.B. 1E - Section 2
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Directs the department of education to charge reasonable fees to researchers applying for access to individually identifiable data, in order to cover costs of responding to time-intensive requests. Requires fees to equal the costs incurred by the department in responding to the applicant's request. Bars fees from being charged to any state agency, except when related to the release of data for research purposes to the University of California, the California State University, or the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Page 7 of 32: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_1_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf
Specifies that these provisions become operative only if Senate Bill 4 of the Fifth Extraordinary Session of 2009-10 is also enacted (full text http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_4_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf). S.B. 4E was also enacted January 7, 2010.
Title: S.B. 1E - Section 6
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Directs the department of education, by January 2011, to ensure that the data elements pertaining to success in the 21st century workforce described in the federal America COMPETES Act be collected for career technical education programs operated by a local educational agency. Page 6 of 32: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_1_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf
Specifies that these provisions become operative only if Senate Bill 4 of the Fifth Extraordinary Session of 2009-10 is also enacted (full text http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_4_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf). S.B. 4E was also enacted January 7, 2010.
Title: S.B. 1E - Section 3
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Adds that further purposes of state longitudinal data system are (1) to allow the state to publicly report data, as specified by the federal America COMPETES Act and as required by the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and (2) to ensure that any data access provided to researchers, as required by the federal Race to the Top regulations and guidelines is provided, only to the extent that the data access is in compliance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.
Existing law requires the department of education to submit an expenditure plan to the department of finance detailing any administrative costs to the department and costs to any local educational agency, if
applicable, of retaining data elements required for compliance with the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. New provision requires the appropriate postsecondary agencies also to submit such an expenditure plan. Adds provision that, to enable the department and two- and four-year public institutions in the state to meet federal ARRA requirements, these entities must be authorized to obtain quarterly wage data, effective July 2010, on students who have attended their respective systems, to assess the impact of education on the employment and earnings of those students, to conduct the annual analysis of district-level and individual district or postsecondary education system performance in achieving priority educational outcomes, and to submit the required reports to the legislature and the governor. Pages 24-27 of 32: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_1_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf
Specifies that these provisions become operative only if Senate Bill 4 of the Fifth Extraordinary Session of 2009-10 is also enacted (full text http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_4_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf). S.B. 4E was also enacted January 7, 2010.
Title: S.B. 1E - Section 21
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Permits unemployment and disability compensation information to be used to allow the state department of education and the 2- and 4-year public postsecondary systems, pursuant to the requirements prescribed
by the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to obtain quarterly wage data on students to assess the impact of education on the employment and earnings of those students, to conduct the annual analysis of district-level and individual district or postsecondary education system performance in achieving priority educational outcomes, and to submit the required reports to the legislature and the governor. Requires that the information be provided to the extent permitted by federal statutes and regulations.
Page 31 of 32: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_1_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf
Specifies that these provisions become operative only if Senate Bill 4 of the Fifth Extraordinary Session of 2009-10 is also enacted (full text http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx5_4_bill_20100107_chaptered.pdf). S.B. 4E was also enacted January 7, 2010.
Title: S.B. 1E - Section 22
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 01/2010 | P-12 | Part of Michigan's Race to the Top Legislation. Requires the Center for Educational Performance and Information (located in the Office of the State Budget Director within the Department of Management and Budget) to create and implement a teacher identifier system with the ability to match an individual teacher and individual students that the teacher has taught. The system must do all of the following: (1) make accessible annual state assessment records of individual pupils; (2) enable individual pupil academic achievement data, including growth in academic achievement, to be correlated to each teacher who has taught the pupil; and (3) enable local board members, teachers and school administrators to have access to the data.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/publicact/htm/2009-PA-0203.htm
Title: S.B. 926 - Sec. 94a(1)(i)
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Amends provisions related to data in the statewide education management information system. Requires districts to ensure that a student's data verification code is included in the student's records reported to any subsequent state institution of higher education. Adds new Section 3333.0410, requiring state institutions of higher education to use the student's data verification code if that code was included in the student's records submitted to the institution by the student's high school or by another state institution of higher education.
Adds new Section 3301.94. Upon state board approval, allows the state superintendent and chancellor of board of regents to enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which the department of education will house postsecondary student data records, so that these records may be combined with the data records reported to the education management information system to create a longitudinal data repository. Requires that the MOU specify a strategic plan for use of the data in the repository; adhere to procedures outlined in legislation when aligning postsecondary and department student data records; and develop data maintenance procedures (including designating the types of research that may be conducted using repository data). Requires that the data be managed in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and that the department annually report to the state board and chancellor all requests for access to or use of the data in the repository and all costs related to the repository's establishment and ongoing maintenance.
Identifies permissible uses of repository data, including assisting the chancellor in performing audit and evaluation functions concerning higher education (including those specified in statute); and entering into written agreements to evaluate the effectiveness of programs or services or to measure progress against specific strategic planning goals, using data in the repository.
Pages 1-13, 25 of 29: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_290_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 290 - P-16 Data System
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| WI | Signed into law 11/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Longitudinal data system. 2009 Wisconsin Act 59 requires the Department of Public Instruction, the Board of Regents of
the University of Wisconsin System, the Technical College System Board, and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities to enter into a written agreement that requires those agencies to establish and maintain a longitudinal data system of student data that links such data from preschool programs to postsecondary programs. The written agreement also must describe the process by which any of the agencies on their own or jointly with one or more of the other agencies may evaluate and study education programs operated or supervised by one or more of the other agencies for the purpose of improving student academic achievement. Expressly provides that the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities is not required to enter into the written agreement. If the Wisconsin
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities does not enter into the written agreement, none of the other agencies may evaluate or study the association's education programs without the approval of the association. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/SB-371.pdf
Title: S.B. 371
Source: Act memo, Wis. Legislative Council
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Amends existing law that prohibits a school district from permitting access to pupil records to any person without parental consent or judicial order. Makes various changes to these pupil record provisions to conform them to federal law. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0251-0300/ab_261_bill_20090820_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0251-0300/ab_261_vt_20091011.html
Title: A.B. 261
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Enacts the State School Racial Equality Designation Act. Expresses legislative findings and declarations relating to the collection of data on the race or ethnicity of persons who identify themselves as members of more than one race. Requires any agency, board or commission that directly, or by contract, collects demographic data on the race or ethnicity of pupils in any elementary or secondary school to provide instructions for reporting racial information that specify that multiracial pupils may select 2 or more racial categories.
Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1281_bill_20090908_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1281_vt_20091012.html
Title: A.B. 1281
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Requires the advisory committee that advises the superintendent of public instruction regarding matters relative to the creation of the Academic Performance Index in the implementation of of related school performance programs to make recommendations to the superintendent by January 2011 for the establishment of a methodology for measuring a school's and pupil's academic achievement growth more accurately and validly over time. Requires the committee to consider a related pilot study in making these recommendations. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0401-0450/ab_429_bill_20090921_enrolled.pdf
Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0401-0450/ab_429_vt_20091011.html
Title: A.B. 429
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Relates to the the California Education Information System, which consists of the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) and the California Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data Education System (CALTIDES). Requires data included in the system concerning pupils or personnel to be maintained in compliance with pupil or personnel federal or state privacy laws. Deletes a prohibition on the use of data for purposes of pay, promotion, sanction or evaluation of individual teachers or groups of teachers, or any other employment decisions related to individual teachers. Requires a plan to link education data systems to identify specific procedures and policies to facilities data sharing and transfer, and changes the date the plan is required to be delivered to the legislature and governor to January 1, 2010. Also authorizes these provisions to be implemented using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds received pursuant to that act's provision of funds for statewide data systems. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_19_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 19
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | State findings and declarations regarding standards-based education reform, assessments, and accountability and the use of cohort growth measures in accountability systems and intervention determinations.
Provides that if the advisory committee established to study academic performance and achievement growth models considers any measure of annual growth, the measure of annual academic achievement growth by cohort approved must meet certain requirements. Requires the state board to approve the model under certain conditions. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1101-1150/ab_1130_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1130
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Existing law requires the state superintendent of education to provide the Controller with certain data no later than 6 months following the close of each fiscal year. New provision requires the superintendent to make this information available on an as-needed basis. Page 27: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_509_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 509 - Provision of Data to Controller
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires teacher supply and demand reports to be published every three years instead of annually. Deletes provision that adequate yearly progress for students with disabilities must be based on students' individual education plans. Provides that schools and districts that do not submit accurate data within the state board's timeframes may have federal funds withheld. Eliminates provision that schools and districts that do not make adequate yearly progress in same subgroup in two consecutive years or successive years are subject to accountability provisions. Requires schools to make adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years (previously was one year) to be removed from any accountability warning designation. Replaces reference to state board's "research department" with reference to "data division." Pages 1-11 of 63: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1977lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1977 - Reporting, Accountability and Data
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Creates new section 2590-t. Provides the New York City Comptroller has the authority to conduct operational and programmatic audits, in addition to financial audits, of the city district to the same extent that the comptroller has such authority for New York City agencies.
Creates new section 2590-u. Authorizes the New York City independent budget office to provide analysis and issue public reports on financial and educational matters of the city district, to enhance official and public understanding of such matters, including: (1) student graduation and dropout data; (2) student enrollment projections; (3) school utilization, class sizes and student-teacher ratios; (4) student assessment data; (5) delivery of services to students in bilingual or English as a second language programs; (6) delivery of services to students with disabilities; (7) utilization of Title I funds directed at parental involvement; (8) matters relating to city district finances. Directs the city of New York to appropriate a specified amount to the independent budget office to carry out these duties. Requires the director of the New York City independent budget office to ensure that his/her office uses up-to-date and professionally accepted methodologies in producing annual data reports related to the city district, and that methodologies used are identified in such reports. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08903&sh=t
Title: A.B. 8903 - New York City Comptroller Audits and Budget Office Reports
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Creates the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act. Requires the state board of education, the community college board, and the board of higher education to jointly establish and maintain a longitudinal data system by entering into one or more agreements that link early learning and K-12 student unit records with institution of higher learning student unit records. Identifies the types of data each entity is responsible for collecting and maintaining.
Requires the entities, by June 30, 2013, to improve and expand the longitudinal data system to enable all three entities to:
(1) Reduce the data collection burden on school districts and postsecondary institutions
(2) Provide authorized officials of early learning programs, schools and districts, and institutions of higher learning with access to their own student-level data and summary reports to inform decisionmaking
(3) Link data to instructional management tools that support instruction and assist collaboration among teachers and postsecondary instructors
(4) Enhance existing high school-to-postsecondary reporting systems to inform school
and district officials, education policymakers, and members of the public about public school students' performance in postsecondary education
(5) Provide data reporting, analysis, and planning tools that assist with financial oversight, human resource management and other support functions
(6) Improve student access to educational opportunities by linking data to college and career planning portals, facilitating the submission of electronic transcripts and scholarship and financial aid applications, and transfer of student records to K-12 and postsecondary officials
(7) Establish a public Internet web interface that provides non-confidential data reports and permits members of the public to more easily access information on school performance
(8) Provide the general assembly with research to help legislators evaluate the effectiveness of specific programs and analyze educational performance within their legislative districts
(9) Allow the three entities to meet federal and state reporting requirements
(10) Establish a system to evaluate teacher and administrator preparation programs using student academic growth as one component of evaluation
(11) In accordance with a data sharing agreement entered into between the three entities and the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, establish procedures and systems to evaluate the relationship between need-based financial aid and postsecondary enrollment and success
(12) In accordance with data sharing agreements entered into between the three entities and health and human service agencies, establish procedures and systems to evaluate the relationship between education and other student and family support systems
(13) In accordance with data sharing agreements entered into between the three entities and employment and workforce development agencies, establish procedures and systems to evaluate the relationship between education programs and outcomes and employment fields, employment locations and employment outcomes.
Directs the state board, in collaboration with the other two entities and subject to the availability of funding, to establish by June 30, 2013 a data warehouse that integrates data from multiple student unit record systems and supports all of the uses and functions set forth in the Act. Specifies that the data warehouse must include:
(1) A unique student identifier not derived from a student's social security number
(2) Student-level enrollment, demographic, and program participation information, including information on participation in dual credit programs
(3) The ability to match individual students' K-12 test records from year to year to measure academic growth
(4) Information on untested K-12 students, and the reasons they were not tested
(5) A teacher and administrator identifier system with the ability to match students to early learning and K-12 teachers and administrators. Provides that a district may not use such data for teacher pay or benefits decisions unless the district and the exclusive bargaining representative of the district's teachers, if any, have agreed to this use. Also bars districts from using such data for evaluation decisions unless, in good faith cooperation with the district's teachers or, where applicable, the exclusive bargaining representative of the district's teachers, the district has developed an evaluation plan that specifically describes the district's rationale for using this information for evaluations, how this information will be used as part of the evaluation process, and how this information will relate to evaluation standards. Provides that nothing limits a charter school's use of any local or state data in connection with teacher pay, benefits or evaluations.
(6) Student-level transcript information, including information on middle and high school courses completed and grades earned. Requires the state board to establish a statewide course classification system, and for all districts and charter schools to map its course descriptions to the statewide course classification system for purposes of state reporting.
(7) Student-level college readiness test scores
(8) Student-level graduation and dropout data
(9) The ability to match P-12 student unit records with institution of higher learning student unit record systems
(10) A state data audit system assessing data quality, validity and reliability.
Identifies additional purposes for which the three entities may use data provided to and maintained by the longitudinal data system. Requires the entities, in the development of the data system, to convene stakeholders and create opportunities for input in the areas of data ownership and use, research priorities, data management, confidentiality, data access and reporting. Requires representatives of the entities to report to and advise the Illinois P-20 Council on the implementation, operation, and expansion of the longitudinal data system. Requires the state board to collect data from charter schools with more than one campus in a manner that can be disaggregated by campus site. Requires the state board to establish procedures through which state-recognized, nonpublic schools may elect to disclose data to the state board for inclusion in the longitudinal data system. Provides that beginning on July 1, 2012, the board of higher education is authorized to collect and maintain data from any nonpublic institution of higher learning enrolling students receiving Monetary Award Program grants, and disclose this data to the longitudinal data system. Authorizes the board of higher education to contract with one or more voluntary consortiums of nonpublic institutions of higher learning established for the purpose of data sharing, research and analysis. Requires the entities to establish data submission procedures and requirements. Establishes provisions related to data sharing. Authorizes any state agency, board, authority or commission to enter into a data sharing arrangement with one or more of the three entities to share data to support the research and evaluation activities authorized by this Act. Also authorizes the entities to enter into data sharing arrangements with other governmental entities, institutions of higher learning, and research organizations that support the research and evaluation activities authorized by this Act. Establishes criteria that data sharing agreements must meet.
Subject to the availability of funding, requires the three entities to contract with an independent outside evaluator for oversight of the development and operation of the longitudinal data system. Requires the evaluator to submit an annual report to the three entities, the Illinois P-20 Council, and specified legislative leaders. Specifies areas that must be included in the annual evaluation. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1828lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1828
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Amends types of data that must be maintained in the education management information system (EMIS http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEPrimary.aspx?page=2&TopicRelationID=1281). Adds that EMIS must include data on achievement levels on college and work ready assessments as created by 3301.0712 (as created in 2009 H.B. 1). Eliminates requirement that EMIS report the percentage of students receiving corporal punishment. Replaces "master teacher" with "lead teacher" in requirement that EMIS report on the number of such teachers in each district and building.
Pages 1003-1013 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.0714
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Partially from DOE analysis of H.B. 1: Requires the department of education to share aggregate student value-added data and calculations, analyses, and reports using aggregate student value-added data with the chancellor of the board of regents.
Pages 1047-1050 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3302.021
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| CT | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Concerns longitudinal studies of student achievement; provides for access to student data to a qualified nonprofit educational organization by the Department of Education; provides for reasonable fees; includes student experiences in preschool by program type and by numbers of months in each such program and the readiness of students entering kindergarten and student progress in kindergarten.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/ACT/Pa/pdf/2009PA-00241-R00SB-01014-PA.pdf
Title: S.B. 1014
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov/
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Provides that if the Commissioner of Education requires a school administrative unit to collect and report individual social security numbers, that the unit must notify parents in the annual notice required under federal law that the data is being collected and used for longitudinal data purposes; provides what must be included in the notification; provides the procedure for release of personally identifiable information; requires parental consent for use of a child's social security number.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billpdfs/SP049101.pdf
Title: S.B. 491
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Directs the state department of education to develop and maintain the Maine Statewide Longitudinal Data System, a continuing program of information management, the purpose of which is to compile, maintain and disseminate information concerning the educational histories, placement, employment and other measures of success of participants in state educational programs.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/chapters/PUBLIC448.asp
Title: S.P. 491
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Deletes provision that education Internet portal provides secure access to student assessment data. Amends 32.258 to direct the state education agency to create a student assessment data portal for use by school districts, teachers, parents, students and public institutions of higher education. Provides the portal must allow:
(1) Students and parents to easily access the student's individual assessment data. The system must allow students and parents to track a student's progress on assessment requirements for graduation.
(2) Authorized district employees, including teachers, to readily access individual assessment data of district students
(3) Authorized employees of public postsecondary institutions to readily access individual assessment data of students applying for admission for use in developing strategies for improving student performance
(4) Public access to general student assessment data.
Requires student assessment data in the portal to be available by the first instructional day of the school year following that in which the data is collected, and to include student performance data on assessment
instruments over multiple years, beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, including any data indicating progress in student achievement. Specifies the system must permit comparisons of student performance information at the classroom, campus, district and state levels.
Pages 42-45 of 180: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3 - Section 48 and 49
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Creates new Subchapter J, "Parent and Educator Reports." Provides that in addition to the indicators adopted under Section 39.053, the commissioner must adopt indicators of the quality of learning for the purpose of preparing parent and educator reports, and review these indicators for possible revisions every other year. Provides performance on such adopted indicators must be evaluated in the same manner provided for evaluation of the student achievement indicators under Section 39.053(c). Requires indicators to include:
(1) Percentage of high school graduates who complete the minimum, recommended or advanced high school programs
(2) Results of the SAT, ACT, articulated postsecondary degree programs described by Section 61.852, and certified workforce training programs described by Chapter 311, Labor Code
(3) Subsequent state assessment scores of students who do not meet performance standards as established by Section 39.0241 or who do not pass state-level assessments
(4) Number of students at each campus who choose to complete the minimum high school program, disaggregated by major student subpopulations
(5) Specified remediation and student promotion indicators
(6) Percentage of limited English-proficient students exempted from the administration of an assessment instrument under Sections 39.027(a)(1) and (2)
(7) Percentage of students with disabilities assessed through assessment instruments developed or adopted under Section 39.023(b)
(8) Percentage of students who satisfy the college readiness measure
(9) Progress toward dual language proficiency under Section 39.034(b) for limited English-proficient students
(10) Percentage of students who are not educationally disadvantaged
(11) Percentage of students who enter an institute of higher education the year after high school graduation
(12) Percentage of students who complete the first year of postsecondary education without needing a developmental education course.
Specifies that performance on the indicators described by Section 39.053(c) and items (3), (4) and (9) above must be based on longitudinal student data that is disaggregated by the bilingual education or special language program that current or former limited English-proficient students are/were enrolled in.
Adds Section 39.302, which directs the state education agency to report to each district the comparisons of student performance made under Section 39.034 (annual improvement needed for a student to perform satisfactorily on grade 5 and 8 assessments and end-of-course assessments, page 67 of 180 of 2009 H.B. 3). Adds Section 39.303, which requires districts to provide each student's parent with a record of the comparisons made under Sections 39.302 and 39.034. Provides that for a student who did not perform satisfactorily on a state assessment, the district must include specific information in the notice about access to online educational resources at the appropriate assessment instrument content level, including educational resources described by Section 32.252(b)(2) and assessment instrument questions and answers released under Section 39.023(e).
Adds Section 39.304, which requires districts to provide teachers at the beginning of the school year with a record of the comparisons made under Sections 39.302 and 39.034. Requires report to go to each teacher for all students, including incoming students, who were assessed on a grades 3-8 assessment or high school end-of-course exam, and all students who took a grades 3-8 assessment or high school end-of-course exam the previous year. Provides the report must indicate whether the student performed satisfactorily or, if the student did not perform satisfactorily, whether the student met the standard for annual improvement.
Amends campus report card content. Repeals provision requiring campus performance to be compared to comparable campus group performance. Requires campus report cards to include the student achievement
indicators described by Section 39.053(c) and the reporting indicators described by Sections 39.301(c)(1) through (5). Requires district report cards to include information indicating the district's accreditation status and identifying each district campus awarded a distinction designation under Subchapter G or considered an unacceptable campus under Subchapter E
Pages 137-142 of 180: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00003F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part VIII (Parent and Educator Reports, Campus and District Report Cards)
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| AL | Adopted 06/2009 | P-12 | Amends public school rules to replace the student social security number with the unique state student identifier as the official identification of each student in all record-keeping systems.
Title: 290-3-1-.02(4)(b)3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Creates the Educational Accountability Reform Act. Establishes the P-20 Data Coordinating Council and revolving fund; provides for membership, appointment, designation of officers, quorum, staff support, etc. . The Council is to advise the State Department of Education, the State Regents for Higher Education, the Department of Career and Technology Education, the Office of Accountability, the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, the Legislature, and the Governor on coordination of the creation of a unified, longitudinal student data system to provide interoperability and efficient and effective storage, use and sharing of data among the State Department of Education, Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Legislature, other policymakers and executive agencies, and the general public. A "unified data system" is to connect essential data elements relating to student level course work and course grades. The system shall facilitate the transfer of data across systems and among interested parties to address questions that cut across levels of the educational system and agencies. The unified data system shall facilitate the addition of data elements relating to testing, instruction and other performance and demographic data. The unified data system shall be accessible to a wide range of stakeholders and serve a variety of purposes, including improving teaching and learning, informing public policy, fostering a culture of evidence-based decision making, conducting research, evaluating system and program effectiveness, and providing reports to various stakeholder groups.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB222_ENR.RTF
Title: S.B. 222
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Extends the repeal date for the quality teachers commission and redefines the time frames within which the commission must accomplish certain tasks. Creates the educator identifier pilot program (program) in the department of education. Outlines the scope and purposes of the program and the data obtained through the program. Sets forth reporting requirements. Establishes the educator identifier fund. Repeals the program.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/0297ACA8CC0BDE5587257537001A35B9?open&file=1065_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1065
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| UT | Adopted 05/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Changes state data system from "Data Clearinghouse File"-based to "UTREx" (Utah eTranscript and Record Exchange), effective July 1, 2010. Defines UTREx as system that allows individual student records to be exchanged electronically among public schools, LEAs and the state office of education (USOE), and to be sent to any participating postsecondary institution. Requires any district, prior to updating a student data system or modifying data elements in an existing data system, to receive USOE approval to ensure the new system maintains compatability with UTREx. Updates provisions related to disclosure of student data for research purposes. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2009/20090401/32448.htm
Title: R277-484
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Strategies to expand education opportunities for high school students and others. Requires the Vermont state colleges, in consultation with various persons and organizations, to study and recommend strategies for expanding educational opportunities to prepare Vermonters to succeed in postsecondary education. Includes consideration of partnerships (higher education and K-12), a P-16 longitudinal data system (requires the commissioner of education to examine and evaluate student longitudinal data systems that are currently available and select one system to implement statewide) evidence-based models for high school improvements, etc. To the extent funds are available, requires phased implementation of the data system no later than January 1, 2010, to be complete in all districts in the state by January 1, 2017.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/bills/Passed/H-405.pdf
Title: H.B. 405
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Directs the Higher Education Policy Commission, Council for Community and Technical College Education and State Board of Education to enter into a state compact to develop and maintain a longitudinal education data system and to share educational information.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3340%20ENR.htm&yr=2009&sesstype=RS&i=3340
Title: H.B. 3340
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Statewide coordination of data systems. Notwithstanding any other technology requirements imposed by the superintendent of public instruction, the information technology department, or the North Dakota educational technology council, each school district is required to acquire PowerSchool through the information technology department and use it as its principle student information system.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JARF1000.pdf
Title: H.B. 1400 - Sec. 9, Data systems
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction, within existing resources, to review all annual compliance reports required of school districts; requires the office to make recommendations about which reports should be discontinued, integrated into the longitudinal student data system, or maintained in their current form. Chapter 317
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5738-S.PL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5738
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| OH | Adopted 04/2009 | P-12 | Amends rules regarding operation of the education management information system. Requires the state superintendent to make available reports that summarize district and statewide expenditures by function area, total expenditure data, per pupil expenditure data, and the functional expenditures as a percentage of all expenditures. Provides that at the state superintendent's discretion, reports may be distributed that summarize expenditure data by any other useful categorization to provide meaningful measures of district operational efficiencies. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/19/3301-19-03_PH_FF_A_RU_20090415_0808.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-19-03
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us
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| IL | Adopted 04/2009 | P-12 | 1.75: Updates language regarding student information systems to reflect that the system is now compatible with all districts' local data packages.
.705 and .720: Provides temporary flexibility for staffing certain courses in grades 5-8 that require a middle grades endorsement.
Pages 405- of 559: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume33_issue15.pdf
Title: 23 IAC 1.75, .705, .720
Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes the State Department of Education to develop a standardized course numbering system to facilitate the collection of data on student participation in courses offered in the public schools; authorizes each county school system to adopt the standardized course numbering system on a voluntary basis; requires a specified county school system to provide a translation of course numbers under specified circumstances.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0588e.pdf
Title: H.B. 588
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes the State Department of Education to assign a unique identification number to each teacher employed in the public schools in the state; requires that the identification number meet specified requirements; limits the use of the teacher identification number to specified educational purposes.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0587t.pdf
Title: H.B. 587
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Requires the State Department of Education to develop a uniform data collection method to track the number of students who regularly participate in a classroom teacher's class by the beginning of the 2012-2013 academic year; requires the method to reflect the number of these students in a classroom teacher's class as of September 30 of each year; clarifies a classroom teacher.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0379t.pdf
Title: H.B. 379; S.B. 990
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Requires the use of student identification numbers on transcripts and general educational development certificates.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/SB0317.pdf
Title: S.B. 317
Source: http://nmlegis.gov/
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Section 301-304 creates a data working group to deal with school and school district data accountability systems. Data working group is charged with proposing a design and implementation timeframe for the data accountability system. Working group must create a comprehensive needs requirement document, conduct a gap analysis of the current data system and the planned system including strengths and limitations, focus on financial and cost data and develop a proposal for a data governance structure.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2261-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2261--Section 301-304, Data Accountability
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| UT | Adopted 02/2009 | P-12 | Adds a definition of Comprehensive Administration of Credentials for Teachers in Utah Schools (CACTUS) to R277-502.
Provides the file includes information such as:
(1) Personal directory information
(2) Educational background
(3) Endorsements
(4) Employment history
(5) Professional development information
(6) A record of disciplinary action taken against the educator. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2008/20081201/32142.htm
Title: R277-502
Source: www.lexis.com
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| IL | Adopted 10/2008 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Adds that student records will include an unique student identifier to facilitate transfer of records among K-12 institutions, and between K-12 and postsecondary.
Pages 191-199 of 303: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume32_issue41.pdf
Title: 23 IAC 375.10, .75
Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt regulations necessary to maintain the state's county-district-school codes system for educational institutions that enroll pupils in any of kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for the purpose of identifying and tracking educational institutions for enrollment, state and federal reporting requirements, accountability, and fiscal purposes.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 2757
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Specifies that eligible pupils who are enrolled in intensive instruction and services to help those pupils pass the High School Exit Examination shall not be counted as dropouts for purposes of specified data collection requirements. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine how those pupils shall be accounted for and reported by school districts for data collection purposes.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 1885
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to the extent permissible under existing federal law, to conduct pupil data management on behalf of local education agencies (LEAs). Provides the agencies access to the Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System for the purpose of obtaining specified data. Requires the department to establish an institutional review board to review and respond to all requests for aggregate and nonidentifiable data. Relates to LEA and Department liability for data management decisions.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: S.B. 1425
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov/
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Requires the the Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System to also have the ability to disaggregate data related to Asian Pacific Islander pupils in order to provide a more accurate view of the academic achievement of the subgroups of pupils. Provides the pupil subgroups. Requires the State Department of Education to publish the disaggregated data on its Internet Web site.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: S.B. 1524
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to establish a process by which local educational agencies maintain and report information for center-based child care and development programs using identifiers of the Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System when an appropriation has been made for this purpose. Requires community colleges and state institutions of higher education to report information using specified identifiers. Requires teacher and academic information be given to the Chief Information Officer. Chapter 561
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: S.B. 1298
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Allows a teacher to fulfill requirement to receive follow up training and instruction in areas that include data analysis, alignment of assessment and instruction, implication of data analysis and effect on increasing pupil achievement, impact on pupil success through diagnostic teaching, differentiating instruction through pacing and complexity, grouping, and data management systems. Requires a local educational agency to contract with a training provider approved by the State Board of Education. Chapter 239 http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_2351-2400/ab_2391_bill_20080801_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2391
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Rewrites section 20-2-320 relating to the Education Information Steering Committee. Replaces with language regarding the state-wide comprehensive educational information system. Pages 3-4: http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/sb344.pdf
Title: S.B. 344
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Vetoed 05/2008 | P-12 | Authorized a parent or guardian of a student to designate an individual to participate in a school conference involving the child of the parent or guardian. Authorized the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Office of Higher Education may each share educational data with the other agency for the purpose of analyzing and improving school district instruction. Revised provisions relating to physical education requirements. Pertains to alignment of certain assessments and state standards.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S3001.5.html&session=ls85
Title: S.B. 3001
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Prohibits schools collection of biometric information on students unless permission has been given by a parent or guardian.
Chapter 189
http://www.azleg.gov/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=SB1216
Title: S.B. 1216
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| UT | Adopted 04/2008 | P-12 | Deletes provision that a teacher working under a letter of authorization who is not an alternative routes to licensing (ARL) candidate, cannot be designated highly qualified. Provides for a new K-6 license. Specifies that the "middle" license area of concentration is still valid, but not issued after 1988. Replaces Applied Technology license area of concentration with Career and Technical Education. Adds Speech-Language Pathologist and Speech-Language Technician license areas of concentration. Deletes provision providing that LEA and educator preparation institution resources may be used may be used to assist those educators experiencing significant problems as educator Level 1 license holders. Also deletes provision that the institution in closest proximity to the employing school district is the first choice for such district involvement and that the school district is encouraged to make a cooperative arrangement with the institution from which the educator graduated. Rewords so as to require LEAs and educator preparation institutions to cooperate in preparing candidates for the educator Level 1 license. Provides that a license applicant who has received or completed license preparation activities or coursework inconsistent with rule 277-504 may present compelling information and documentation for review and approval by the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) to satisfy the licensing requirements. Specifies that a Letter of Authorization is valid for one year and may be renewed for a total of three years.
Deletes section regarding School Counselor levels of licensure. Adds "Returning Educator Relicensure" section to provide a process for a previously licensed educator with an expired license to renew an expired license. Provides that returning educators who previously held a Level 2 or Level 3 license must be issued a Level 1 license during the first year of employment and that, upon completion of the requirements listed in R277-502-6A, the employing LEA may recommend reinstatement of licensure at a Level 2 or 3. Provides that the returning educator's license is valid for five years. Requires returning educators who taught for fewer than three consecutive years in a public or accredited private school to complete the Early Years Enhancement requirements before moving from Level 1 to Level 2 licensure. Also adds to professional educator license reciprocity provisions to authorize an applicant with fewer than three years of previous educator experience in a public or accredited private school to be issued a Level 2 license following satisfaction of the requirements of R277-522, Entry Years Enhancements (EYE) for Quality Teaching - Level 1 Utah Teachers.
Provides the circumstances under which an individual may change or add data in the Computer-Aided Credentials of Teachers in Utah Schools (CACTUS) system. Provides that interns and student teachers are included in CACTUS. Provides that training must be provided to designated individuals prior to granting access to CACTUS. Provides that CACTUS information belongs solely to the USOE, and that the he USOE shall make the final determination of information included in or deleted from CACTUS. Provides that CACTUS data under the Government Records Access and Management Act are public information and must be released by the USOE.
Title: R277-502
Source: www.lexis.com
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Requires a local school division to obtain written or electronic documentation, to the extent practicable, before making any status classification in an information management system.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+CHAP0422
Title: H.B. 259
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| CO | Adopted 03/2008 | P-12 | Establishes rules regarding student assessments by establishing a longitudinal growth model and the utilization of a Quantile Regression technique. COLORADO 9418
http://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/NumericalSubDocList.do?deptID=4&deptName=300 Department of Education&agencyID=109&agencyName=301 Colorado State Board of Education&ccrDocID=2982&ccrDocName=1 CCR 301-72 RULES FOR THE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF STUDENT ASSESSMENTS
Title: 1 CCR 301-72
Source: http://www.sos.state.co.us
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| CO | Signed into law 02/2008 | P-12 | Concerns the statistical model for determining a longitudinal analysis of the state student assessment program assessments. Makes revisions and clarifications to existing statute regarding student academic growth model.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2008a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/B52589BA37AB78BD8725739F0078AA75?open&file=1024_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1024
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Adopted 12/2007 | P-12 | This item adopts new 19 TAC Chapter 95, Commissioner's Rules Concerning Education Research Centers, §95.1001, Operation of Education Research Centers. The adopted new section implements the Texas Education Code (TEC), §1.005, Education Research Centers; Sharing Student Information, added by House Bill (HB) 1, 79th Texas Legislature, Third Called Session, 2006, that requires the commissioner of education and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt rules for the use of student data at an education research center. The adopted new 19 TAC §95.1001, Operation of Education Research Centers, provides procedures for implementing education research centers to conduct research for the benefit of education in the state, including research relating to the impact of state and federal education programs, the performance of educator preparation programs, public school finance, and the best practices of school districts with regard to classroom instruction, bilingual education programs, special language programs, and business practices.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/commissioner/adopted/1207/95-1001-ltradopt.htm
Title: 19 TAC Chapter 95
Source: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2007 | P-12 | Requires the Office of Privacy Protection in the Department of Consumer Affairs to establish a task force to conduct a review of the use by all public and private colleges and universities in this state of social security numbers in order to recommend practices to minimize the collection, use, storage, and retention of social security numbers. Provides no person, entity or government agency shall record or file a document displaying more than the last 4 digits of a social security number. Relates to fees. Chapter 627
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1168_bill_20071013_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1168
Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov/
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| IA | Signed into law 09/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Directs the department of education to conduct a study on the student information systems currently in use in the state, the types of data collected, and the future needs for additional types of data at the K-12 and postsecondary levels and for use by the state, including the use of electronic student transcripts to share with other K-12 and postsecondary institutions. Provides the study must examine the systems used by other states. Provides the study must focus on systems that will improve efficiency, accuracy, and security of, and access to, the data by various users. Directs the department to submit a report with its conclusions and recommendations to the general assembly by January 15, 2008.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&hbill=HF468
Title: H.F. 468
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Amends the Social Security Number Protection Task Force Act. Places the task force within the office of the attorney general, and makes the attorney general responsible for administering the activities of the task force.
Requires the task force to explore the technical and procedural changes needed to implement a unique identification number system to replace the use of social security numbers. Directs the task force to identify other states and local governments that have implemented a unique identification number system, and to make recommendations and devise procedures for creating a statewide unique identification number program. Directs the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the general assembly by December 31, 2007.
Increases membership of the task force to include, among others, a member appointed by the executive director of the board of higher education, and a member representing school administrators, appointed by the state superintendent of education.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB0574lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 574
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Provides that a Health Data Task Force be convened to create a system for public access to integrated health data. Requires the state superintendent of education or his/her designee to serve on the task force. Directs the task force to produce a plan focusing on assuring access to improving the quality of data necessary to understand health disparities. Directs the task force to submit an initial report to the general assembly by July 1, 2008, and to make annual reports to by July 1 of each year through 2011 of the progress toward implementing the plan. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB0547lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 547
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Provides that a school district that is required to offer bilingual education or special language programs shall include the following information in the district's Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) report: demographic information, as determined by the commissioner, on students enrolled in district bilingual education or special language programs; the number and percentage of students enrolled in each instructional model of a bilingual education or special language program offered by the district; and the number and percentage of students identified as students of limited English proficiency who do not receive specialized instruction.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/SB01871F.pdf
Title: S.B. 1871
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Establishes the High School Completion and Success Initiative in order to improve secondary school instruction in Texas. The initiative provides support to schools and districts in implementing curriculum and instruction improvements that align with state standards and expectations for post-secondary success. The initiative also includes technical assistance to assist schools and school districts in the implementation of successful secondary education programs that maximize the impact of all available funds, including high school allotment funds. Requires the Texas Education Agency (TEA), in coordination with the Legislative Budget Board, to establish an online clearinghouse of information relating to best practices of campuses and school districts regarding dropout prevention in addition to other areas previously set forth in this subsection.The bill also establishes the High School Completion and Success Initiative Council to develop and manage the implementation of a strategic plan that coordinates public and private high school improvement initiatives. The bill establishes a number of pilot programs intended to aid in reducing the state's high school dropout rate.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB02237F.pdf
Title: H.B. 2237
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Concerns a comprehensive review of the State's educational data infrastructure; makes an appropriation. Authorizes the Department of Education to contract for the conduct of a comprehensive review and study of the state's education data collections and technology infrastructure; requires the contractor to report its findings and recommendations to the State Board of Education; requires the state board to report the findings and recommendations to the legislature.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/CE67B54ED3A05D718725725D005DC383?open&file=1270_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1270
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Concerns education data management.The state board of education will designate at least five districts, two cooperative service boards and a charter school to form a committee, known as the Education Data Advisory Committee (EDAC). The committee will work with the department to review district reporting requirments and make recommendations for improvement.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2007a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/5662930DE28B75258725727D0057CAAF?open&file=1320_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1320
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| TN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Present law requires that all students be assigned a personal identification number upon entry into a Tennessee public school. The number is the same as the student's social security number, which is required to be provided at the time of admission of a student into a district. Each class roll or other documents containing the composition of the student body at a particular school or class must contain the identification numbers of the students. This bill removes the requirements that districts be provided with social security numbers, that the identification number match the student's social security number, and that the identification numbers be included in class rolls or other documents. Each student would be assigned a personal identification number upon entry into a Tennessee public school.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB2237.pdf
Title: H.B. 2237
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Finds that: (1) Reliable data on student progress, characteristics of students and schools, and teacher qualifications and mobility is critical for accountability to the state and to the public; (2) Educational data should be made available as widely as possible while appropriately protecting the privacy of individuals as provided by law; (3) School districts and the office of the superintendent of public instruction need robust and compatible data systems and programs to reduce inefficiencies caused by the lack of connectivity and to minimize or eliminate multiple data entry; and (4) Schools and districts should be supported in their management of educational data and should have access to user-friendly programs and reports that can be readily used by classroom teachers and building principals to improve instruction. (Background: In 2002, the state office began developing the Core Student Record System (CSRS), which assigns each student a unique student identification number and collects demographic and other information to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).)
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to, to the extent funds are appropriated for this purpose, conduct a feasibility study on establishing a statewide longitudinal student-teacher data system. The primary purpose of the data system is to better aid research into programs and interventions that are most effective in improving student performance and to provide information on areas within the educational system that need improvement. Requires a preliminary set of data elements to be developed by the office of the superintendent of public instruction by December 2007. The feasibility study shall include conducting pilot studies on the collection of this preliminary set of identified data elements in two school districts, with one over twenty thousand in full-time equivalent enrollment and the other less than two thousand in full-time equivalent enrollment.
Requires that, by November 1, 2008, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall provide a final report on the results of the feasibility study, including the results from the pilot studies, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the legislature. Authorizes the office of superintendent of public instruction to establish a longitudinal student data system for and on behalf of school districts in the state. Personally identifiable student data will be safeguarded consistent with the requirements of the federal family educational rights privacy act and any relevant state laws. Consistent with privacy protections in the above-referenced laws, data may be disclosed for educational purposes and studies, including but are not limited to: (1) Educational studies authorized or mandated by the state legislature; (2) Studies initiated by other state educational authorities and authorized by the office of superintendent of public instruction; (3) Studies initiated by other state agencies and authorized by the office of superintendent of public instruction; and (4) Studies initiated by private study groups authorized
by the office of superintendent of public instruction. Requires any group or agency that utilizes this data to adhere to federal and state laws protecting student data and safeguarding the confidentiality and privacy of student records.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5843-S2.PL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5843
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Directs the commissioner to evaluate the effectiveness of all teacher preparation programs in the state, and the timelines and costs of developing or modifying data systems to collect the necessary data. Provides the study must consider measuring the effectiveness of such programs, based on the academic performance of their students and graduates and through other measures. Directs the commissioner to consult with the chancellors of the State University of New York and the City University of New York, and other representatives of higher education. Directs the commissioner, upon completion of such study, to make recommendations to the board of regents on implementation of such methodologies.
Directs the board of regents to explore the development of a prekindergarten through postsecondary (P-16) data system that tracks student performance from prekindergarten through public colleges in the state, and links students to teachers. Directs the commissioner to consult with other relevant state department and agencies about the feasability of linking the system to other data collection systems containing information relevant to the education of children, including social services information; and to identify barriers to the exchange of data between the P-16 system and social services and other systems under their control and collaborate to facilitate the free exchange of data. Provides such data system must be maintained consistent with applicable confidentiality requirements. Directs the commissioner to report to the board of regents on activities conducted regarding the development of said data system.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S02107&sh=t
Title: S.B. 2107 - Part A, Section 4
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Provides that for purposes of establishing a student's status as a truant, the student's attendance record is cumulative for an entire school year. Directs the state department of education to assure that the student information system facilitates the collection of student data and the transfer of education records among schools and districts. Directs a district to notify the Kentucky Department of Education when a new student enrolls in a school in the district. Directs the department, upon notification of a student's enrollment in a school, to forward all records for the student to the receiving district within 10 business days. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/07RS/HB145/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 145
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Section 41 provides for the electronic transmission of public school transcripts to correctly enroll and place students transferrred between high schools. The act also requires the Department of Educaiton to develop a uniform method of formatting and electronically transmitting transcripts to be used by public K-8 for enrolling and transferring students. (Act No. 1573)
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/SB274.pdf
Title: S.B. 274 (Student Records)
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Directs the higher education department, in collaboration with public post-secondary educational institutions, to use the same student identification number issued to a New Mexico public school student for a student enrolled in a public post-secondary educational institution, including an off-campus instructional program or learning center.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0211.pdf
Title: S.B. 211
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us/
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| CO | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Creates the Effective Teachers Commission to study development of a teacher identifer system. A primary purpose of the identifier system would be to document and track teacher qualifications across and within districts to address the "teacher quality gap."
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/Clics2007A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/A2C0BE7DED4EE84487257251007D582B?Open&file=140_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 140
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to provide the Bureau of Legislative Research with direct access to certain electronic databases; requires the department provide the bureau with direct read and report only access to the data warehouse concerning school districts and related records; requires the department to take reasonable precautions to prevent disclosure of personally identifiable information of a student unless it is released by a parent or guardian or a student that is no longer a minor. (Act No. 624)
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/HB2268.pdf
Title: H.B. 2268
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Revises provisions regarding data submission. Requires any school district or school seeking state accreditation shall submit enrollment data, personnel data, and verify all state and federal standards for accreditation and approval of schools, including those related to safety and educational equity of the school district or school by October fifteenth of each year.
http://www.legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2007/bills/HB1034enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1034
Source: http://www.legis.state.sd.us
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2006 | P-12 | Sec. 3301.0716 allows the state department of education to have access to personally identifiable student information under certain circumstances, including to respond to an appeal from a school district or school for verification of the accuracy of the student's score on a test; to determine whether the student satisfies the alternative conditions for a high school diploma; or if a testing contractor has notified the department that the student's written response to a question on such a test included threats or descriptions of harm to another person or the student's self and the information is necessary to enable the department to identify the student for purposes of notifying the school district or school in which the student is enrolled of the potential for harm. Allows the independent contractor engaged by the department of education to create and maintain for school districts and community schools the student data verification codes required by division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code to upon request of the director of health, assign a data verification code to a child who is receiving services under division (A)(2) of section 3701.61 of the Revised Code. The contractor is to provide that code to the director, who will submit it to the public school in which the child will be enrolled for special education and related services.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_276
Title: H.B. 276 -- Section 3301.0716
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2006 | P-12 | Requires a contract for developing the Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data System (LTIDS). Requires the Education Information System to include the LTIDS and the Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System. Provides the LTIDS house information regarding teachers for developing state policy, identifying workforce trends and needs. Prohibits its use for individual teacher employment decisions and from including personal information. Establishes a teacher identification number for each public school teacher.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1601-1650/sb_1614_bill_20060905_enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 1614
Source: California Legislature
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| CA | Vetoed 08/2006 | P-12 | Requires a school district, as a condition for receiving specified professional development block grant funds, to analyze disaggregated testing data accumulated from specified pupil testing and from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and to structure the professional development program to focus on improving the academic achievement of pupils according to the results of the analysis of the data.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2101-2150/ab_2109_bill_20060817_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 2109
Source: California Legislature
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| GA | Adopted 06/2006 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the Comprehensive Academic Performance System (CAPS) Demonstration Site Grant. The intent of the funding is to provide seed resources to stimulate the adoption of a school-based comprehensive academic performance system that consolidates the use of curriculum standards alignment and pacing, benchmark assessment, differentiated instruction, parent involvement, and public accountability. Use of a web-based accountability system is required.
Each participant school, with the support of its affiliated district, must:
(a) Develop and implement an achievement-oriented, comprehensive instructional model that champions standards-based instruction, benchmark assessment, data driven decision-making, differentiated instruction, parent involvement, and public accountability;
(b) Make the time and funding commitments required for the training of leaders, teachers, coaches, parents, community, etc.;
(c) Set annual and benchmark measurable goals for improving learning, teaching and assessment;
(d) Align instruction to state standards for the content that all students should know by grade span and subject;
(e) Conduct formative and summative assessment of student academic achievement at regular intervals;
(f) Utilize results of benchmark student assessments that have clear performance criteria to differentiate instruction;
(g) Publicize student performance statistics at each interval, including statistics by subject, by teacher and by class;
(h) Provide parents with specific information regarding the performance of their students;
(i) Agree to participate in ongoing coordination with the GaDOE and school/system project teams. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/160/1/4/200/72.pdf
Title: GAC 160-1-4-.272
Source: rules.sos.state.ga.us
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| IA | Signed into law 06/2006 | P-12 | Directs each local board to annually develop, maintain, and distribute a financial report. Provides that the objective of the financial report shall be to facilitate public access to a variety of information and statistics relating to the education funding received by the school district, enrollment and employment figures, and additional information.
Requires the financial report to contain, at a minimum, information on:
a. All property tax levies, income surtaxes, and local option sales taxes in place in the school district, listed by type of levy, rate, amount, duration, and notification of the maximum rate and amount limitations permitted by statute.
b. The amount of funding received on a per pupil basis through the operation of the school finance formula, and from any other state appropriation or state funding source.
c. Federal funding received per student or teacher population targeted to receive the funds, and any other federal grants or funding received by the district.
d. Teacher and administrator minimum, maximum, and average salary paid by the district, and the percentage and dollar increase under teacher and administrator salary and benefits settlement agreements.
e. Teacher and administrator health insurance and other alternative health benefit information, including the monthly premium, the percentage of the premium paid by the district, and the percentage of the premium paid by a teacher or administrator for single and family insurance.
f. Teacher and administrator employment statistics, including the annual number of licensed full-time and part-time teachers and administrators employed by the school district during the preceding five years, and including the number of teachers and administrators no longer employed by the district, and new hires.
g. Student enrollment levels during the preceding five years, including regular enrollment, special education enrollment, and enrollment adjustments made pursuant to supplementary weighting.
h. Such additional information as the school district may determine.
Requires copies of a district's financial report for the previous school year to be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the school district must either distribute or post written copies of the financial report at specified locations throughout the school district.
Provides that, prior to certifying any levy by board approval, or submitting a levy for voter approval, local boards must facilitate public access to a complete listing of all outstanding levies within the school district by rate, amount, duration, and the applicable maximum levy limitations. Requires that the information on outstanding levies be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year, and updated prior to board approval or submission for voter approval of any levy during the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the district must either distribute or post written copies of the listing at specified locations throughout the district. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 14-15
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Defines secondary schools as those serving grades 6-12. Specifies that the following guiding principles must be used in the annual preparation of each secondary school's improvement plan:
(a) Struggling students, especially those in failing schools, need the highest quality teachers and dramatically different, innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
(b) Every teacher must contribute to every student's reading improvement.
(c) Quality professional development provides teachers and principals with the tools they need to better serve students.
(d) Small learning communities allow teachers to personalize instruction to better address student learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses.
(e) Intensive intervention in reading and math must occur early and through innovative delivery systems.
(f) Parents need access to tools they can use to monitor their child's progress in school, communicate with teachers, and act early on behalf of their child.
(g) Applied and integrated courses help students see the relationships between subjects and relevance to their futures.
(h) School is more relevant when students choose courses based on their goals, interests, and talents.
(i) Master schedules should not determine instruction and must be designed based on student needs, not adult or institutional needs.
(j) Academic and career planning engages students in developing a personally meaningful course of study so they can achieve goals they have set for themselves.
Requires local boards to adopt policies to address:
(a) Procedures for placing and promoting grade 6-12 students entering from out of state or from a foreign country, including a review of the student's prior academic performance.
(b) Alternative methods for students to demonstrate competency in required courses and credits, with special support for students who have been retained.
(c) Applied, integrated, and combined courses that provide flexibility for students to enroll in courses that are creative and meet individual learning styles and student needs.
(d) Credit recovery courses and intensive reading and math intervention courses based on student performance on the FCAT. These courses should be competency based and offered through innovative delivery systems, including computer-assisted instruction. Districts should use learning gains as well as other appropriate data and provide incentives to identify and reward high-performing teachers who teach credit recovery and intensive intervention courses.
(e) Grade forgiveness policies that replace a grade of "D" or "F" with a grade of "C" or higher earned subsequently in the same or a comparable course.
(f) Summer academies for students to receive intensive reading and mathematics intervention courses or competency-based credit recovery courses. A student's participation in an instructional or remediation program prior to or immediately following entering grade 9 for the first time shall not affect that student's classification as a first-time 9th grader for reporting purposes.
(g) Strategies to support teachers' pursuit of the reading endorsement and emphasize reading instruction professional development for content area teachers.
(h) Creative and flexible scheduling designed to meet student needs.
(i) Procedures for high school students who have not prepared an electronic personal education plan to prepare such plan.
(j) Tools for parents to regularly monitor student progress and communicate with teachers.
(k) Additional course requirements for promotion and graduation which may be determined by each school district in the student progression plan and may include additional academic, fine and performing arts, physical education, or career and technical education courses in order to provide a complete education program.
Requires the department to:
(a) By February 1, 2007, increase the number of approved applied, integrated, and combined courses available to districts.
(b) By the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, make available a professional development package designed to provide the information that content area teachers need to become proficient in applying scientifically based reading strategies through their content areas.
(c) Share best practices for providing a complete education program to students enrolled in course recovery, credit recovery, intensive reading intervention, or intensive math intervention.
(d) Expedite assistance and decisions and coordinate policies throughout all divisions within the department to provide districts with support to implement the Florida Secondary School Redesign Act.
(e) Use data to provide the Legislature with an annual longitudinal analysis of the success of this reform effort, including the progress of 6th grade students and 9th grade students scoring at Level 1 on FCAT Reading or FCAT Math.
Directs the commissioner of education to create and implement the Secondary School Improvement Award Program to reward public secondary schools that demonstrate continuous student academic improvement and show the greatest gains in student academic achievement in reading and math.
Pages 35-39 of 160: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 - Section 19
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | To provide data required to implement education performance accountability measures in state and federal law, the Commissioner of Education must initiate and maintain strategies to improve data quality and timeliness. All data collected from state universities shall, as determined by the commissioner, be integrated into the K-20 data warehouse. The commissioner will have unlimited access to such data solely for the purposes of conducting studies, reporting annual and longitudinal student outcomes, and improving college readiness 2823
and articulation. All public educational institutions must provide data to the K-20 data warehouse in a format specified by the commissioner.
School districts and public postsecondary educational institutions shall maintain information systems that will provide the State Board of Education, the Board of Governors of the State University System, and the Legislature with information and reports necessary to address the specifications of the accountability system.
The Commissioner of Education will determine the standards for the required data, monitor data quality, and measure improvements. The commissioner shall report annually to the State Board of Education, the Board of Governors of the State University System, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives data quality indicators and ratings for all school districts and public postsecondaryeducational institutions.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 44)
Source: Florida Legislature
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Requires the department of education to conduct a study of the requirements for data security and a notification process when a breach of data security occurs, and to determine costs, benefits, feasibility and implications of adoption of specifications for statewide education data designed to facilitate the exchange of information among different instructional and administrative software applications at the local, state, and federal levels. Requires the department to convene a committee of stakeholders to guide completion of the study. Requires the committee to include representatives of large and small school districts, rural and urban school districts, the Kentucky Association of School Administrators, the Kentucky School Boards Association, and the Kentucky Association of School Superintendents. Requires a written interim report to be presented to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by August 2006 and a final written report to be sent to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by December 2006.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB341/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 341 Section 1 - 3
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12
Postsec. | Concerns student data from the elementary to secondary education system through the postsecondary education system; requires a postsecondary institution that is eligible for the college opportunity fund program to begin using as the student's primary identifier the unique identification number assigned to the student while enrolled in the elementary to secondary education system.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FCC11C40BEB13B3E872570B40068D462?Open&file=024_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 24
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes the state board to adopt rules to provide for a student information management system. Removes outdated references to the Idaho Student
Information Management system (SIMS). http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0752.html
Title: H.B. 752
Source: www3.state.id.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2006 | P-12 | This bill requires coordination between public and higher education information technology systems, including the use of a unique student identifier, which the State Board of Education will assign to each public education student. This bill takes effect on January 1, 2007. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2006/bills/hbillenr/hb0082.pdf
Title: H.B. 82
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| IL | Adopted 11/2005 | P-12 | Makes changes in the accountability system for public schools. Changes the requirement for adequate yearly progress and the indicators that will be considered; the targets for each aspect of performance; the subgroups of students, their participation in state level assessments, and the treatment of their scores; and the academic early warning and watch status and the requirements for school and district improvement plans and restructuring plans.
Section 1.10 Public School Accountability Framework
Section 1.20 Operational Requirements
Section 1.30 State Assessment
Section 1.40 Adequate Yearly Progress
Section 1.50 Calculation of Participation Rate
Section 1.60 Subgroups of Students; Inclusion of Relevant Scores
Section 1.70 Additional Indicators for Adequate Yearly Progress (high school dropout rates/graduation rates)
Section 1.75: Student Information System
Section 1.80: Academic Early Warning and Watch Status
Section 1.85: School and District Improvement Plans; Restructuring Plans
Section 1.90: Systems of Rewards and Recognition - The Illinois Honor Role
Section 1.95 Appeals Procedure
http://www.isbe.state.il.us/rules/archive/pdfs/oneark.pdf
AGENCY CONTACT: Sally Vogl, Agency Rules Coordinator, State Board of Education, 100 N First St (W-475), Springfield, IL 62777, 217-782-5270
Title: 23 IAC 1.10, thru .70, .75, .80,
.85, .90, .95,
Source: www.isbe.state.il.us
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2005 | P-12 | Legislative intent: (a) Promote good data management practices with respect to education data.
(b) Support the efforts of the State Department of Education to minimize data redundancy, maximize data value, and reduce the reporting
burden on local educational agencies by: (1) Referring to the department's Data Resource Guide prior to collecting data in order to determine if the data sought is already collected. (2) Utilizing the preferred variation for data elements referenced in the department's common data architecture. (3) Allowing data collection to occur within windows specified by the state superintendent. (c) Providing sufficient lead time for local educational agencies and the department to collect new data elements within existing collection procedures.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_110_bill_20050718_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 110 -- Reporting Section
Source: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Community College | Appropriates funds to subsidize state department information systems projects, provide for additional support personnel and training and additional data processing systems analysts, and to continue the implementation of Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004. Improves the composition of the workforce development council. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb841_cd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 841
Source: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| TX | Adopted 06/2005 | P-12 | Amends rules concerning the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS). Defines the standards by which school districts and charter school are to submit required information. Specifies the review process when data elements are added, deleted, or modified, providing consistency in updates to the PEIMS standards. Clarifies the description of the TEA's data collection and reporting systems. Provides the additional flexibility needed to determine the best methods to collect and report data to meet state and federal statutory requirements. TEXAS REG 97447 (SN)
Title: 19 TAC 2.61.BB.61.1025
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | One section of this bill creates the Student Tracking and Reporting (STAR) Pilot Program. Requires interoperability with other state student data management and reporting systems; directs exploration of delivery systems for certain purposes; requires utilization of certain system model; requires model to include certain capabilities; creates the Student Tracking and Reporting (STAR) Coordinating Committee.The purpose of the Pilot Program is to provide for the development and implementation of a horizontal school district and school site level student data management and reporting system based on the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) industry open-standard. The developed student data management and reporting system is required to provide horizontal articulation of student academic data, student demographic data and other relevant student information. Horizontal articulation must assimilate the data from the classroom level, to the school site level, and to the district level, with the capability to analyze and disseminate the data back to the school site and classroom level when required by teachers and administrators to support informed and improved classroom instruction. The Pilot Program must incorporate the following objectives:
1. Provide for academic performance reporting at the district level for all students in grade levels five, eight, ten and twelve. Academic performance reporting shall include report card grades, student performance results from multiple standardized assessments, including at least one norm-referenced assessment, state testing program results for grade levels five, eight, and End-of-Instruction assessments, and ACT college entrance examination scores when applicable;
2. Provide for a horizontal data aggregation system at the school district and site level that facilitates storage, retrieval and distribution of data both horizontally, at the school district and site levels, and vertically to the Wave Program, including all necessary student data elements to support academic performance reporting;
3. Provide for a reporting structure at the district level that shall address all state and federal reporting requirements, including those specified in the federal act known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and data elements used in determining district and site performance levels for the Academic Performance Index. The district level reporting structure shall also provide for the transfer of aggregated school district and site level data in Extensible Markup Language (XML), an industry open-standard data format, to both state and federal agencies if required by the agencies in an aggregated format;
4. Develop, define and implement necessary data elements and codes to meet reporting requirements to support horizontal articulation of data at the district and site level and to provide effective transfer of data for state and federal reporting. Provided, that if SIF or the State Board of Education has not defined data elements and codes necessary for the development of the student data management and reporting system, the participating pilot program school districts may create the necessary data elements and codes to support horizontal articulation of data at district and site levels and to provide effective transfer of data for state and federal reporting requirements. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit the State Board of Education from defining data elements and codes not defined in the SIF specifications for the Wave Program and from requiring all school districts, including the pilot program school districts, to use the data elements for the vertical transfer of data. These data elements and codes may include, but are not limited to, expanded student entry, gain and loss codes and unique course identification codes;
5. Provide for a historical data warehousing system at the school district and site levels to archive and retrieve comprehensive student data in order to provide all Pilot Program teachers and administrators with the necessary student academic performance indicators, including report card grades and multiple assessment data, to inform and improve instructional programs at the classroom level;
6. Provide for the aggregation of student performance credentialing at both school district and site levels. The Pilot Program schools shall develop credentialing criteria that shall include, but is not limited to, all areas of academic performance as outlined in paragraph 1 of this subsection, plus additional performance indicators pertaining to life skills, citizenship, and when applicable, employability skills and career awareness/exploration. Pilot Program schools shall develop a summary or condensed portfolio of student credentialing results within the transcript of all graduating students, to include cumulative credentialing data for students from grades six through twelve. The student credentialing portfolio shall be developed so that it can be electronically distributed via secure vertical transmission. Any transmission of a student portfolio to institutions of higher education and to other entities such as potential employers shall comply with the provisions of the Family Education Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA);
7. Provide for a continuous school and student improvement framework through the measurement of comprehensive, cumulative student growth by analyzing multiple academic performance measurements. Such measurements shall document relative growth over time so as to determine continuous improvement at the individual student, grade and school-wide levels; and
8. Provide for professional development in the use of techniques and tools to improve student achievement to teachers in the Pilot Program. Provide training to administrators and support personnel in the implementation of the student data management and reporting system.
Title: H.B. 1021 (multiple provisions)
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1900_engr.rtf
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Deletes completion target of July 1, 2003 and makes completion of the statewide comprehensive educational information system subject to appropriation by the General Assembly (inserts "phased approach"). Deletes requirement that the following agencies submit data: public libraries, public colleges and universities through the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, pre-kindergarten programs, the Professional Standards Commission, and postsecondary technical colleges and schools. Changes from giving the responsibility for the data system to be housed with State Data and Research Center through the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to the Department of Education.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/sb35.pdf
Title: S.B. 35 - Data System
Source: http://www.legis.state.ga.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires each district's student services plan to include a district-level tracking system for students who fail to reach proficiency on state-mandated assessments. Specifies that guidance and counseling services in each district's "student services program" include academic advisement for class selection by establishing academic goals in elementary, middle, and high school; interpretation of criterion-referenced and norm-referenced testing and dissemination of results to the school, students, parents, and community; academic assessment counseling and career counseling, including advising students on the national college assessments, workforce opportunities, and and alternative programs that could provide postsecondary opportunities for students; and guidance in understanding the relationship between classroom performance and success in school.
Specifies that the psychological services offered through a district's student services program include consultation and counseling with parents, students, and school personnel to ensure that all students are ready to succeed and that all students are preparing for college and work.
Specifies that the career services offered through a district's student services program include the dissemination of appropriate course-taking patterns and the effect of taking more rigorous courses so that students are better prepared for college and work success.
Requires every school counselor to provide a career planning process for each student to include career awareness, employment readiness, career information, and the knowledge and skill necessary to achieve career goals. Requires school counselors to also encourage parents, during regular parent conferences, to support partnerships in their children's learning and career planning process.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2868.pdf
Title: H.B. 2868
Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | A portion of this bill repeals fiscal support for the Idaho student information management system (ISIMS) in section 33-120A of the Idaho Code, beginning with fiscal year 2005-2006. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1223.html
Title: S.B. 1223
Source: www3.state.id.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Revises the Standards of Quality to require local school boards to (i) provide for data collection and analysis and to use such results in instructional program evaluation; (ii) implement any actions identified through the academic review of schools accredited with a warning; (iii) analyze and report annually the results of industry certification examinations; (iv) annually review their professional development programs; and (v) report compliance with the Standards of Quality annually to the Board of Education. In addition, the bill (i) increases from 10 to 17 the full-time equivalent instructional positions for each 1,000 students identified as having limited English proficiency; (ii) provides that teacher, administrator, and superintendent evaluations shall be consistent with the performance objectives included in the Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers, Administrators, and Superintendents developed by the Board of Education; (iii) replaces Board- and locally-adopted six-year statewide or divisionwide plans, as the case may be, (including those for educational technology) with "comprehensive" statewide or divisionwide plans; and (iv) replaces individual school six-year plans with "comprehensive" plans. Requires each local school board to annually review its professional development program for quality, effectiveness, participation by instructional personnel, and relevancy to the instructional needs of teachers and the academic achievement needs of the students in the school division. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0331
Title: S.B. 779, H.B. 1762
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to ensure that the California School Information Services' system meets the needs of pupils in foster care and includes disaggregated data on pupils in foster care. Authorizes nonpublic, nonsectarian schools to receive Academic Performance Index (API) scores, and requires the development of an alternative accountability system for nonpublic, nonsectarian schools.
Requires the State Department of Education and the State Department of Social Services to collaborate with specified entities to increase access to federal funds for foster youth services. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1858_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf
Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_1858_sign.pdf
Title: A.B. 1858 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NM | Rule Adoption 08/2004 | P-12 | Amends issuing agency and statutory references; requires that disciplinary records be included in the records of transferring students; requires elective courses meet PED standards; requires that accountability data system numbers be included in transcripts. NEW MEXICO REG 4162 (SN)
Title: NMAC 6.30.2.1, .3, .10
Source: StateNet
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| CO | Signed by Governor 06/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education, no later than 15 days after the effective date of the act, to choose a public or private entity to develop a model to calculate students' annual academic growth for diagnostic purposes; directs the department to calculate annually the amount of each student's and each school's academic growth in reading, writing, and mathematics over the periods between the administration of the CSAP assessments. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/F4561E2B63FB898087256DEF00574D0F?Open&file=1433_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1433
Source: Colorado Legislative Web site
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Adds Ark. Code 6-15-2001. The state department of education shall implement a system for collecting and analyzing school and student performance data. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB33.pdf
Title: S.B. 33 § 8
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2003 | P-12 | States Legislative intent to promote good data management practices for pupil data systems and issues, including ensuring confidentiality, producing analyzable files, and linking data with data from other agencies. Requires the advisory committee on matter relatives to the Academic Performance Index and the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools and High Achieving/Improving Schools programs to make recommendations by July 1, 2005, on the appropriateness and feasibility of a methodology for generating a measurement of academic performance by utilizing unique pupil identifiers and annual academic achievement growth to provide a more accurate measure of a school's growth over time. The bill would require the superintendent of public instruction, with approval of the state board of education, to implement that measurement of academic performance if appropriate and feasible.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0251-0300/sb_257_bill_20031011_chaptered.html
Title: S.B. 257
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| WV | Rule Adoption 08/2003 | P-12 | Provides procedures for the collection, maintenance and disclosure of student data. WEST VIRGINIA REG 4340 (SN)
Title: Title 126, Series 94
Source: StateNet
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| OH | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | This section requires the department to use a system designed for collecting necessary data, calculating the value-added progress dimension, analyzing data, and generating reports, which system has been used previously by a non-profit organization led by the Ohio business community for at least one year in the operation of a pilot program in cooperation with districts to collect and report student achievement data via electronic means and to provide information to the districts regarding the academic performance of individual students, grade levels, school buildings, and the districts as a whole. Prohibits the department from paying more than two dollars per student for data analysis and reporting to implement the value-added progress dimension in the same manner and with the same services as under the pilot program described above. However, nothing in this section precludes the department or any district from entering into a contract for the provision of more services at a higher fee per student.
Title: H.B. 3--Sec. 3302.021
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| MI | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Sec. 94a. (1) There is created within the office of the state budget director in the department of management and
budget the center for educational performance and information. The department of management and budget shall
provide administrative support to the center. The center shall do all of the following:
(a) Coordinate the collection of all data required by state and federal law from all entities receiving funds under this
act.
(b) Collect data in the most efficient manner possible in order to reduce the administrative burden on reporting
entities.
(c) Establish procedures to ensure the validity and reliability of the data and the collection process.
(d) Develop state and model local data collection policies, including, but not limited to, policies that ensure the
privacy of individual student data. State privacy policies shall ensure that student social security numbers are not
released to the public for any purpose.
(e) Provide data in a useful manner to allow state and local policymakers to make informed policy decisions.
(f) Provide reports to the citizens of this state to allow them to assess allocation of resources and the return on their
investment in the education system of this state.
(g) Assist all entities receiving funds under this act in complying with audits performed according to generally
accepted accounting procedures.
(h) Other functions as assigned by the state budget director.
(2) The state budget director shall appoint a CEPI advisory committee, consisting of the following members:
(a) One representative from the house fiscal agency.
(b) One representative from the senate fiscal agency.
(c) One representative from the office of the state budget director.
(d) One representative from the state education agency.
(e) One representative each from the department of career development and the department of treasury.
(f) Three representatives from intermediate school districts.
(g) One representative from each of the following educational organizations:
(i) Michigan association of school boards.
(ii) Michigan association of school administrators.
(iii) Michigan school business officials.
(h) One representative representing private sector firms responsible for auditing school records.
(i) Other representatives as the state budget director determines are necessary.
(3) The CEPI advisory committee appointed under subsection (2) shall provide advice to the director of the center
regarding the management of the center's data collection activities, including, but not limited to:
(a) Determining what data is necessary to collect and maintain in order to perform the center's functions in the most
efficient manner possible.
(b) Defining the roles of all stakeholders in the data collection system.
(c) Recommending timelines for the implementation and ongoing collection of data.
(d) Establishing and maintaining data definitions, data transmission protocols, and system specifications and
procedures for the efficient and accurate transmission and collection of data.
(e) Establishing and maintaining a process for ensuring the accuracy of the data.
(f) Establishing and maintaining state and model local policies related to data collection, including, but not limited
to, privacy policies related to individual student data.
(g) Ensuring the data is made available to state and local policymakers and citizens of this state in the most useful
format possible.
(h) Other matters as determined by the state budget director or the director of the center.
(4) The center may enter into any interlocal agreements necessary to fulfill its functions.
(5) From the general fund appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $363,400.00 for
2003-2004 to the office of the state budget in the department of management and budget to support the operations of
the center. In addition, from the general fund appropriation in section 11 for 2003-2004, there is allocated $1,500,000.00
to the center for a contract with Standard & Poor's for the school evaluation services website. The center shall
cooperate with the state education agency to ensure that this state is in compliance with federal law and is maximizing
opportunities for increased federal funding to improve education in this state. In addition, from the federal funds
appropriated in section 11 for 2003-2004, there is allocated the following amounts in order to fulfill federal reporting
requirements:
(a) An amount estimated at $1,000,000.00 funded from DED-OESE, title I, disadvantaged children funds.
(b) An amount estimated at $284,700.00 funded from DED-OESE, title I, reading first state grant funds.
(c) An amount estimated at $46,800.00 funded from DED-OESE, title I, migrant education funds.
(d) An amount estimated at $500,000.00 funded from DED-OESE, improving teacher quality funds.
(e) An amount estimated at $100,000.00 funded from DED-OESE, drug-free schools and communities funds.
(6) Federal funds allocated under this section that are not expended in the fiscal year in which they were allocated
may be carried forward to a subsequent fiscal year.
(7) The center may bill departments as necessary in order to fulfill reporting requirements of state and federal law.
(8) As used in this section:
(a) "Center" means the center for educational performance and information created under this section.
(b) "DED-OESE" means the United States department of education office of elementary and secondary education.
(c) "State education agency" means the department.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4401.pdf
Governor explanation of veto (page 9/36): http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/journal/house/pdf/2003-HJ-08-13-064.pdf
Title: H.B. 4401 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| UT | Rule Adoption 07/2003 | P-12 | Amends rules to provide specific standards, deadlines, and procedures for school districts and the State Office of Education to fulfill their respective responsibilities for the collection and reporting of nonassessment data essential to both school accountability and allocation of state funds to districts. UTAH REG 26189 (SN)
Title: R277-484
Source: StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Expands legislative intent for K-20 education performance accountability system; provides requirements and implementation schedule for performance-based funding; provides mission, goals, and measures; requires collection of certain data; provides eligibility criteria for participation in Florida School Recognition Program; relates to equivalent scores for purpose of graduation; relates to the No Child Left Behind Act.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0915&Chamber=House&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AH%25200915%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: H.B. 915
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Requires the state superintendent to create and implement a comprehensive management information system in order to conduct standardized electronic data collections and reporting protocols in compliance with federal law, improve information exchange between schools and districts, and keep individual student and staff information confidential. System must allow for electronic transfer of individual student records between schools, districts, postsecondary institutions and the department. Allows the state superintendent to create a uniform coding and reporting system, including a statewide uniform student identification system. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes the State Board of Education to provide for and implement the Idaho Student Information Management System; provides that the board of trustees of each school district shall ensure that the district participates in the Idaho Student Information Management System to the full extent of its availability. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0367.html
Title: H.B. 367
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Appropriates out of any moneys in the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000, or so much of the sum as may be
necessary, to the superintendent of public instruction for the purpose of completing the data envelopment analysis project, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2003, and ending June 30, 2005. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/bill_text/DADF0300.pdf
Title: S.B. 2032
Source: http://www.state.nd.us
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Amends Sections 22-2-6 and Section 22-2-14 to allow the state department to take over the control and management of a public schools or district that has failed to meet requirements of law or state board rules and standards. The state board may suspend a board, local superintendent or principal that has notice of disapproval and fails to comply with procedures. Sets other conditions of suspension and appeal, etc. Also allows the department to issue a state identification number for each public school student for use in the accountability data system. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/03%20Regular/FinalVersions/house/HB0212MarkedUp.pdf
Title: H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill)
Source: New Mexico State Legislature
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| WY | Engrossed 03/2003 | P-12 | Requires the state department to acquire software to support district body of evidence and student assessment systems; specifies criteria. Requires the department to develop and issue a request for proposal (RFP) in consultation with the SBET advisory group, enabling software to be fully functional by school year 2004-2005.; provides an appropriation of $4,325,000.00.
Title: SF 0039
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Requires the State Department of Education to contract for the development or proposals that will provide for the retention and analysis of longitudinal pupil achievement data on the Standardized Testing and Reporting and English Language Development tests and the high school exit examination. Requires the department to convene an advisory board to establish privacy and access protocol and to contract with an oversight consultant.
Title: S.B. 1453
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12
Community College | Directs the state board to improve the state's tracking of dropout data; encourages the concurrent enrollment of state technical high schools, career centers, and community colleges; directs the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee to study the correlation between the compulsory attendance age and dropout rates, and the fiscal and instructional accountability of local school administrative units; relates to teacher renewal credits. Encourages local boards to adopt policies that require superintendents to assign to the core academic course, in 7th through 9th grades, teachers who have at least four years' teaching experience and who have received within the last three years an overall rating on a formal evaluation that is at least above standard. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/html2001/bills/AllVersions/Senate/S1275vr.html
Title: S.B. 1275
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| CT | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Requires the Commissioner of Education to prepare a state-wide education accountability plan in conformance with the federal No Child Left Behind Act and provides for a transition from the state's program identifying schools in need of improvement to a program consistent with federal laws and regulations.Directs the Department of Education to create a state-wide public school information system.(Secs.6, and 7)
Title: H.B. 6004 (Special Session Act No. 02-7)
Source: www.state.ct.us/sde/commish
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| TN | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 06/2002 | P-12 | Relates to education data stored electronically; allows the commissioner of education to establish guidelines regarding the timely and responsible release of education data for research purposes; establishes a task force to report its findings regarding the education data.
Title: H.B. 2827, S.B. 2969
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Summary.asp?BillNumber=HB2827
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| AK | Adopted 06/2002 | P-12 | Beginning no later than August 31, 2002, a unique 10-digit individual student identification number issued by the department; the student identification number must appear in each electronic record containing studentlevel information that is reported to the department; also, the student identification number must appear on each student examination booklet.
Title: 4 AAC 07.060 (a)
Source: Memorandum Number 2002-32
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2002 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to the student accountability information system; provides that the department of education shall not make any changes to the student level data elements to be collected excepting data for a joint technological education district or a community college, unless the community college is owned by an Indian tribe; provides that a school district or charter school is not required to submit student level data more than once every 20 school days.
Title: H.B. 2508
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | No public or private elementary or secondary school or college or university shall display any student's social security number to identify students for posting or public listing of grades, on class rosters or other lists provided to teachers, on student identification cards, in student directories or similar listings, or, unless specifically authorized or required by law, for any public identification purpose: Provided, That any student identification cards, directories or similar listings produced prior to the first day of July, two thousand two, shall not be subject to the provisions of this section. ftp://129.71.164.29/ftp-house02/HB2301-2400/
Title: H.B. 2374
Source: http://129.71.164.29/BillT/bills2002/billsrch2002.cfm
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Defines an additional goal of the Children's Cabinet to develop a strategic plan to design and implement a single, secure, universal student identifier system that does not involve using a students Social Security number that will foster interagency communication, increase efficiency of service delivery and simultaneously protect children's legitimate expectations of privacy and rights to confidentiality.
Title: H.B. 5912
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Permits State Board of Education to adopt standards for Oregon electronic student records; allows approved educational institutions to participate in Oregon electronic student record program.
Title: S.B. 262
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires that records relating to student performance be coordinated and maintained in standardized, compatible formats that allow the exchange of information between K-12 and higher education and throughout student educational careers; school districts must ensure students enroll in courses for the recommended or advanced high school program. Requires the state department to adopt or develop appropriate criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess the ability of and be administered to students who are determined to have dyslexia or a related disorder; permits but does not require the commissioner of education to participate in multi-state end-of-course test development, and requires the development of an end-of-course test for Algebra I. Adds district completion rates to list of indicators that must be reported and requires boards to have district dropout rates audited annually at district expense; establishes a "Gold Peformance Rating Program" based on enhanced performance.
Title: H.B. 1144
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2001 | Postsec. | Relates to identification of students, staff and faculty at institutions of higher education; provides such institutions shall develop a system of personal identifiers for all students, staff and faculty which does not use Social Security numbers; provides such institutions shall use existing funding for this purpose.
Title: S.B. 5509
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Approved by voters 11/2000 | P-12
Community College | (S.B. 1007E) Provides for an increase to the transaction privilege tax rate from 5.0% to 5.6% to provide greater funding for teacher salaries, to increase the school year, for the development of a system to measure school performance based on student achievement and a database to track student attendance and academic performance, and to provide additional funding for other maintenance and operation education programs, University research and development programs and community college workforce development; makes the act conditional on the voter approving the general transaction privilege tax rate increase at the next general election. Legislative Council analysis: http://www.sosaz.com/election/2000/info/pubpamphlet/english/prop301.htm
Proposition 301 approved in November 2000 election with 53.5% voter support.
Title: Proposition 301
Source: Arizona Secretary of State Web site
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2000 | Postsec. | Act No. 856., Provides that any person or agency required to submit to the director of the University of Georgia Libraries copies of documents shall also submit such documents in electronic form if available.
Title: H.B. 1358
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Extends the implementation date for the applicability of the standards enacted for data collection forms for schools, school systems, and the State Department of Education.
Title: S.B. 900
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Provides for standardized system of reporting local education agencies' financial information to Commissioner of Education.
Title: S.B. 2435
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | Prohibits public institutions of higher education, public schools, or the State from printing or having printed a Social Security number on any type of identification card; prohibits the Motor Vehicle Administration from using, including or encoding a Social Security number on an individual's driver's license.
Title: H.B. 37
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | A steering committee for hardware/software specifications and updates is created. This committee will establish the specifications for a statewide student information system to be created by 2003. The State Data and Research Center shall develop and collect data for and operate the student information system, and the fund accounting system and the salary data system. According to the Office of Planning and Budget, this center will become the hub of the instructional technology system. Local school systems will send data directly to this Center. The Office of Planning and Budget shall collect from local school systems information to verify the proper expenditure of funds and employment of positions funded in the Quality Basic Education formula and categorical grants.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | In connection with the statewide educational information system, there must also be a uniform budget and accounting system established with input from the Office of Educational Accountability and the Education Coordinating Council.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education
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