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Synopsis As Introduced Creates the P-20 Longitudinal Education Data System Act. Requires the State Board of Education, the Illinois 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, elementary, and secondary school student unit records with institution of higher learning student unit records. Subject to appropriation, requires the State Board of Education to establish a data warehouse that integrates data from multiple student unit record systems and supports all of the uses and functions of the longitudinal data system. Provides that the data warehouse must be developed in cooperation with the Illinois Community College Board and the Board of Higher Education and must have the ability to integrate longitudinal data from early learning through the postsecondary level. Sets forth provisions concerning the collection and maintenance of data, data sharing, privacy protection laws, and the performance of an evaluation and submission of a report. Makes changes to the Charter Schools Law of the School Code concerning not being exempt from the Act and the Illinois School Student Records Act concerning the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Effective immediately.
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill with the following changes. Makes changes concerning the General Assembly's findings and declarations, the teacher and administrator identifier system that is required to be part of the data warehouse, the State Board of Education's collection of data from charter schools with more than one campus, allowing the Board of Higher Education to contract with a consortium of non-public institutions of higher learning established for the purpose of data sharing, research, and analysis, and allowing the Board to make available grant funding to a consortium of non-public institutions of higher learning to provide assistance in the development of the Board's data collection system. Effective immediately.
Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill with the following changes. Makes changes concerning the General Assembly's findings and declarations, the teacher and administrator identifier system that is required to be part of the data warehouse, what entities are considered stakeholders, the State Board of Education's collection of data from charter schools with more than one campus, allowing the Board of Higher Education to contract with a consortium of non-public institutions of higher learning established for the purpose of data sharing, research, and analysis, allowing the Board to make available grant funding to a consortium of non-public institutions of higher learning to provide assistance in the development of a data collection system, and references to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in the Illinois School Student Records Act. Makes a technical correction. Effective immediately.
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