Connecticut 2019 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00851 Compare Versions

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5	5	General Assembly Raised Bill No. 851
6	6	January Session, 2019
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10	10	Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
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13	13	Introduced by:
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19	19	AN ACT PROHIBITING THE DISAGGREGATION OF ST UDENT DATA
20	20	BY ETHNIC SUBGROUPS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL INFORMATION
21	21	SYSTEM.
22	22	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
23	23	Assembly convened:
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25	25	Section 1. Section 10-10a of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
26	26	following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2019): 2
27	27	(a) As used in this section: 3
28	28	(1) "Teacher" means any certified professional employee below the 4
29	29	rank of superintendent employed by a board of education for at least 5
30	30	ninety days in a position requiring a certificate issued by the State 6
31	31	Board of Education; 7
32	32	(2) "Teacher preparation program" means a program designed to 8
33	33	qualify an individual for professional certification as an educator 9
34	34	provided by institutions of higher education or other providers 10
35	35	approved by the Department of Education, including, but not limited 11
36	36	to, an alternate route to certification program. 12 Raised Bill No. 851
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42	42	(b) The Department of Education shall develop and implement a 13
43	43	state-wide public school information system. The system shall be 14
44	44	designed for the purpose of establishing a standardized electronic data 15
45	45	collection and reporting protocol that will facilitate compliance with 16
46	46	state and federal reporting requirements, improve school-to-school 17
47	47	and district-to-district information exchanges, and maintain the 18
48	48	confidentiality of individual student and staff data. The initial design 19
49	49	shall focus on student information, provided the system shall be 20
50	50	created to allow for future compatibility with financial, facility and 21
51	51	staff data. The system shall provide for the tracking of the performance 22
52	52	of individual students on each of the state-wide mastery examinations 23
53	53	under section 10-14n in order to allow the department to compare the 24
54	54	progress of the same cohort of students who take each examination 25
55	55	and to better analyze school performance. The department shall assign 26
56	56	a unique student identifier to each student prior to tracking the 27
57	57	performance of a student in the public school information system. 28
58	58	(c) The state-wide public school information system shall: 29
59	59	(1) Track and report data relating to student, teacher and school and 30
60	60	district performance growth and make such information available to 31
61	61	local and regional boards of education for use in evaluating 32
62	62	educational performance and growth of teachers and students enrolled 33
63	63	in public schools in the state. Such information shall be collected or 34
64	64	calculated based on information received from local and regional 35
65	65	boards of education and other relevant sources. Such information shall 36
66	66	include, but not be limited to: 37
67	67	(A) In addition to performance on state-wide mastery examinations 38
68	68	pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, data relating to students shall 39
69	69	include, but not be limited to, (i) the primary language spoken at the 40
70	70	home of a student, (ii) student transcripts, (iii) student attendance and 41
71	71	student mobility, (iv) reliable, valid assessments of a student's 42
72	72	readiness to enter public school at the kindergarten level, and (v) data 43
73	73	collected, if any, from the preschool experience survey, described in 44
74	74	section 10-515. Such data relating to students shall not be 45 Raised Bill No. 851
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80	80	disaggregated by ethnic subgroups unless such disaggregated student 46
81	81	data is (I) required under federal law, or (II) collected uniformly for all 47
82	82	ethnic subgroups among the entire student population in the state; 48
83	83	(B) Data relating to teachers shall include, but not be limited to, (i) 49
84	84	teacher credentials, such as master's degrees, teacher preparation 50
85	85	programs completed and certification levels and endorsement areas, 51
86	86	(ii) teacher assessments, such as whether a teacher is deemed highly 52
87	87	qualified pursuant to the No Child Left Behind Act, P.L. 107-110, or 53
88	88	deemed to meet such other designations as may be established by 54
89	89	federal law or regulations for the purposes of tracking the equitable 55
90	90	distribution of instructional staff, (iii) the presence of substitute 56
91	91	teachers in a teacher's classroom, (iv) class size, (v) numbers relating to 57
92	92	absenteeism in a teacher's classroom, and (vi) the presence of a 58
93	93	teacher's aide. The department shall assign a unique teacher identifier 59
94	94	to each teacher prior to collecting such data in the public school 60
95	95	information system; 61
96	96	(C) Data relating to schools and districts shall include, but not be 62
97	97	limited to, (i) school population, (ii) annual student graduation rates, 63
98	98	(iii) annual teacher retention rates, (iv) school disciplinary records, 64
99	99	such as data relating to suspensions, expulsions and other disciplinary 65
100	100	actions, (v) the percentage of students whose primary language is not 66
101	101	English, (vi) the number of and professional credentials of support 67
102	102	personnel, (vii) information relating to instructional technology, such 68
103	103	as access to computers, and (viii) disaggregated measures of school-69
104	104	based arrests pursuant to section 10-233n. 70
105	105	(2) Collect data relating to student enrollment in and graduation 71
106	106	from institutions of higher education for any student who had been 72
107	107	assigned a unique student identifier pursuant to subsection (b) of this 73
108	108	section, provided such data is available. 74
109	109	(3) Develop means for access to and data sharing with the data 75
110	110	systems of public institutions of higher education in the state. 76
111	111	(d) On or before July 1, 2011, and each year thereafter until July 1, 77 Raised Bill No. 851
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117	117	2013, the Commissioner of Education shall report, in accordance with 78
118	118	the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the 79
119	119	General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education 80
120	120	on the progress of the department's efforts to expand the state-wide 81
121	121	public school information system pursuant to subsection (c) of this 82
122	122	section. The report shall include a full statement of those data elements 83
123	123	that are currently included in the system and those data elements that 84
124	124	will be added on or before July 1, 2013. 85
125	125	(e) The system database of student information shall not be 86
126	126	considered a public record for the purposes of section 1-210. Nothing 87
127	127	in this section shall be construed to limit the ability of a full-time 88
128	128	permanent employee of a nonprofit organization that is exempt from 89
129	129	taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 90
130	130	or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United 91
131	131	States, as from time to time amended, and that is organized and 92
132	132	operated for educational purposes, to obtain information in accordance 93
133	133	with the provisions of subsection (h) of this section. 94
134	134	(f) All school districts shall participate in the system, and report all 95
135	135	necessary information required by this section, provided the 96
136	136	department provides for technical assistance and training of school 97
137	137	staff in the use of the system. 98
138	138	(g) Local and regional boards of education and preschool programs 99
139	139	which receive state or federal funding shall participate, in a manner 100
140	140	prescribed by the Commissioner of Education, in the state-wide public 101
141	141	school information system described in subsection (b) of this section. 102
142	142	Participation for purposes of this subsection shall include, but not be 103
143	143	limited to, reporting on (1) student experiences in preschool by 104
144	144	program type and by numbers of months in each such program, and 105
145	145	(2) the readiness of students entering kindergarten and student 106
146	146	progress in kindergarten. Such reporting shall be done by October 1, 107
147	147	2007, and annually thereafter. 108
148	148	(h) On and after August 1, 2009, upon receipt of a written request to 109 Raised Bill No. 851
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154	154	access data maintained under this section by a full-time permanent 110
155	155	employee of a nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation 111
156	156	under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any 112
157	157	subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, 113
158	158	as from time to time amended, and that is organized and operated for 114
159	159	educational purposes, the Department of Education shall provide such 115
160	160	data to such requesting party not later than sixty days after such 116
161	161	request, provided such requesting party shall be responsible for the 117
162	162	reasonable cost of such request. The Department of Administrative 118
163	163	Services shall monitor the calculation of such fees charged for access to 119
164	164	or copies of such records to ensure that such fees are reasonable and 120
165	165	consistent with those charged by other state agencies. The Department 121
166	166	of Education shall respond to written requests under this section in the 122
167	167	order in which they are received. 123
168	168	(i) The superintendent of schools of a school district, or his or her 124
169	169	designee, may access information in the state-wide public school 125
170	170	information system regarding the state-wide mastery examination 126
171	171	under section 10-14n. Such access shall be for the limited purpose of 127
172	172	determining examination dates, examination scores and levels of 128
173	173	student achievement on such examinations for students enrolled in or 129
174	174	transferring to the school district of such superintendent. 130
175	175	This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
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178	178	Section 1 July 1, 2019 10-10a
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180	180	Statement of Purpose:
181	181	To prohibit the collection of disaggregated student data on specific
182	182	ethnic subgroups unless such student data is required by federal law
183	183	or collected uniformly across the entire population of students.
184	184	[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
185	185	except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
186	186	not underlined.]
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