Measuring and Evaluating Trends for Reliability, Integrity, and Continued Success (METRICS) Act
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Latest action (14 Apr 2010): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
What this bill does
The METRICS Act, introduced in the Senate in 2010, aims to improve how education data is used to enhance student results. It would authorize the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states and high-need local school districts. These grants would fund the development and improvement of integrated data systems that link student information from early childhood through postsecondary education and into the workforce.
States receiving grants would need to build or improve systems that track individual students over time and across different educational stages. Funds would also support better access to and analysis of this data, and training for educators, parents, and others on how to use it for decision-making, while respecting privacy. Local school districts would use their grants to develop plans for using data to improve teaching and learning, including providing access to data and training staff on its effective use.
The bill has been introduced and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. If passed, the Secretary of Education would then oversee the grant application and award process. The bill authorizes appropriations of $65 million for each fiscal year starting in 2011 for both state and local grants.
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Official summary
Measuring and Evaluating Trends for Reliability, Integrity, and Continued Success (METRICS) Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states to improve access to, and the sharing and use of, education data to improve student outcomes.
Requires state grantees to have or be in the process of implementing integrated statewide education longitudinal data systems, which link individual students' early childhood, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and workforce data over time.
Requires the use of grant funds to: (1) expand the ability of the data systems to link such data and do so across state agencies; (2) improve opportunities to access, analyze, and use data from such systems; and (3) build the capacity of teachers, leaders, parents, students, researchers, and the public to use longitudinal data for effective decision-making.
Gives grant priority to states that propose to coordinate their efforts with local educational agencies (LEAs) or other states.
Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to high-need LEAs to develop and implement a comprehensive plan for using data to improve teaching, learning, and student outcomes.
Requires such plan to include strategies to: (1) provide teachers, leaders, parents, students, researchers, and the public with access to student education data in a manner that respects student and teacher privacy; (2) coordinate with state efforts to build integrated statewide longitudinal data systems; (3) regularly analyze and share student education data with school personnel, parents, and students; (4) train teachers and school leaders to use such data effectively; (5) ensure that source data used at the local level is consistent with source data used to report indicators as required by state or federal law; and (6) provide training that addresses the use of data collection software, privacy policies, data integrity issues, report planning, and processes.
Timeline
14 Apr 2010
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Common questions
- What does S. 3204 do?
- The METRICS Act, introduced in the Senate in 2010, aims to improve how education data is used to enhance student results. It would authorize the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states and high-need local school districts. These grants would fund the development and improvement of integrated data systems that link student information from early childhood through postsecondary education and into the workforce. States receiving grants would need to build or improve systems that track individual students over time and across different educational stages. Funds would also support better access to and analysis of this data, and training for educators, parents, and others on how to use it for decision-making, while respecting privacy. Local school districts would use their grants to develop plans for using data to improve teaching and learning, including providing access to data and training staff on its effective use. The bill has been introduced and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. If passed, the Secretary of Education would then oversee the grant application and award process. The bill authorizes appropriations of $65 million for each fiscal year starting in 2011 for both state and local grants.
- Has S. 3204 become law?
- The source does not supply a confirmed lifecycle stage for S. 3204. Check the latest action and official source below.
- Who sponsored S. 3204?
- S. 3204 was sponsored by Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] (D-OH), with 0 cosponsors.
- What's the latest action on S. 3204?
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (14 Apr 2010).
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