Student Right to Know Before You Go Act of 2022
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Latest action (30 Mar 2022): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
What this bill does
The Student Right to Know Before You Go Act of 2022 would direct the Secretary of Education, through the Commissioner for Education Statistics, to build a new federal higher education data system designed to track student retention, graduation, loan debt, and post-graduation earnings across colleges and programs of study. The system would use privacy-protective technology, such as secure multi-party computation, so that raw student data submitted by colleges cannot be individually identified or accessed outside the specific approved calculations. Colleges receiving federal student aid, along with the Social Security Administration, Treasury, Defense Department, Veterans Affairs, and the Education Department itself, would be required to report specified data components starting in 2022, which the Commissioner would use to calculate standardized outcome metrics, including completion rates, loan repayment rates, transfer rates, and earnings by program, disaggregated by categories such as Pell Grant status, race, gender, and veteran status.
The bill primarily affects institutions of higher education participating in federal aid programs, current and former students (particularly aid recipients), and several federal agencies that would supply data. Results would be published publicly online in a user-friendly, machine-readable format, and the law bars selling the collected data. Over a multi-year transition, the new system would eventually replace certain overlapping data collection under the existing IPEDS system.
The bill was introduced in the Senate on March 30, 2022, by Senator Wyden with two cosponsors, and referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. It did not receive a vote before the end of the 117th Congress, meaning it did not become law.
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Official summary
Student Right to Know Before You Go Act of 2022
This bill requires the National Center for Education Statistics to establish and maintain a new higher education data system. The center must use the system to calculate metrics related to student education, debt, and earnings. These metrics include student graduation rates, transfer rates, rates of continuation to subsequent levels of education, dropout rates, loan debt amounts, loan repayment rates, and debt-to-earnings ratios for each institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student-aid programs. The metrics must be disaggregated and separately provided on the basis of specified categories.
The system must meet requirements for minimizing privacy and security risks.
The bill provides for the transition from the existing Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to the new higher education data system.
The Department of Education must publish the metrics on its website. Within five years, an IHE that participates in federal student-aid programs must display links on its website to these metrics.
Timeline
30 Mar 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Common questions
- What does S. 3952 do?
- The Student Right to Know Before You Go Act of 2022 would direct the Secretary of Education, through the Commissioner for Education Statistics, to build a new federal higher education data system designed to track student retention, graduation, loan debt, and post-graduation earnings across colleges and programs of study. The system would use privacy-protective technology, such as secure multi-party computation, so that raw student data submitted by colleges cannot be individually identified or accessed outside the specific approved calculations. Colleges receiving federal student aid, along with the Social Security Administration, Treasury, Defense Department, Veterans Affairs, and the Education Department itself, would be required to report specified data components starting in 2022, which the Commissioner would use to calculate standardized outcome metrics, including completion rates, loan repayment rates, transfer rates, and earnings by program, disaggregated by categories such as Pell Grant status, race, gender, and veteran status. The bill primarily affects institutions of higher education participating in federal aid programs, current and former students (particularly aid recipients), and several federal agencies that would supply data. Results would be published publicly online in a user-friendly, machine-readable format, and the law bars selling the collected data. Over a multi-year transition, the new system would eventually replace certain overlapping data collection under the existing IPEDS system. The bill was introduced in the Senate on March 30, 2022, by Senator Wyden with two cosponsors, and referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. It did not receive a vote before the end of the 117th Congress, meaning it did not become law.
- Has S. 3952 become law?
- The source does not supply a confirmed lifecycle stage for S. 3952. Check the latest action and official source below.
- Who sponsored S. 3952?
- S. 3952 was sponsored by Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] (D-OR), with 2 cosponsors.
- What's the latest action on S. 3952?
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (30 Mar 2022).
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