A bill to provide for statewide longitudinal data systems to improve elementary and secondary education, and for other purposes.
The source supplies the latest action, but no lifecycle stage.
Latest action (3 Aug 2007): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
What this bill does
This bill, S. 2014, would allow the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states. These grants would help states build or improve systems that track students from pre-kindergarten through high school. The systems would include unique student identifiers, track student progress over time, match student records to teachers using unique teacher identifiers, and link educational data to other state systems like those for higher education, workforce development, and child welfare.
The bill also proposes grants to help educators and policymakers use this data effectively. This would involve training personnel on data collection and use, developing methods to analyze and share best practices for improving teaching and learning, and aligning statewide data systems with local school systems. The bill authorizes $100 million per year for fiscal year 2008 and the following five years for these grant programs, with states required to provide matching funds that increase over the grant period.
This bill was introduced in the Senate in August 2007 and was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Its current status is "Introduced," meaning it has not yet progressed further in the legislative process.
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Official summary
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive five-year matching grants to states to build or upgrade statewide pre- through high-school longitudinal data systems that include: (1) unique and consistent statewide student identifiers; (2) the ability to track student participation and performance over time; (3) unique and consistent statewide teacher identifiers that match student records to the appropriate teacher; and (4) the ability to link their data to data from higher education, workforce development, unemployment insurance, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military services information systems.
Increases the state match required as a grant matures.
Authorizes the Secretary to award matching grants to states to build the capacity of educators and policymakers, at the local educational agency and school level, to use data and data systems by: (1) training educational personnel to effectively collect, report, and use data; (2) developing processes to analyze and disseminate the best approaches for using the data systems to enhance teaching and learning; and (3) aligning statewide longitudinal data systems with local student information management systems and curriculum or instructional management systems.
Provides such funding as is necessary to support a state education data center and state educational data coordinators.
Timeline
3 Aug 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Common questions
- What does S. 2014 do?
- This bill, S. 2014, would allow the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states. These grants would help states build or improve systems that track students from pre-kindergarten through high school. The systems would include unique student identifiers, track student progress over time, match student records to teachers using unique teacher identifiers, and link educational data to other state systems like those for higher education, workforce development, and child welfare. The bill also proposes grants to help educators and policymakers use this data effectively. This would involve training personnel on data collection and use, developing methods to analyze and share best practices for improving teaching and learning, and aligning statewide data systems with local school systems. The bill authorizes $100 million per year for fiscal year 2008 and the following five years for these grant programs, with states required to provide matching funds that increase over the grant period. This bill was introduced in the Senate in August 2007 and was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Its current status is "Introduced," meaning it has not yet progressed further in the legislative process.
- Has S. 2014 become law?
- The source does not supply a confirmed lifecycle stage for S. 2014. Check the latest action and official source below.
- Who sponsored S. 2014?
- S. 2014 was sponsored by Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] (D-OH), with 2 cosponsors.
- What's the latest action on S. 2014?
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (3 Aug 2007).
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