This bill strengthens federal data collection on the educator workforce by requiring the Department of Education's Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights to collect and publish specific metrics on teachers and principals. This expanded collection will be integrated into the existing civil rights data collection process, aiming to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the nation's school staff. For principals, the data will include the number of full-time principals , their median years of experience , and the distribution of experience across various categories. For teachers, the collection will gather the number of full-time teachers , their median years of teaching experience , and experience distribution. Additionally, it will track the number of teachers who meet or do not meet State licensing and certification requirements , and those qualified in specific subjects like mathematics, science, English as a second language, and special education. A crucial aspect of this mandate is the requirement to disaggregate and cross-tabulate all collected data by race, ethnicity, and sex . Following each data collection, the Department must produce a special report on the educator workforce, making it accessible on the Office for Civil Rights website. This report will summarize state-level data and present disaggregated results in an easily understandable format, such as percentages or visual representations. To ensure transparency, the underlying data used for these reports will also be made publicly accessible . The bill emphasizes the importance of data privacy , requiring coordination with the Department's Chief Privacy Officer to protect individually identifiable information for teachers and principals. These new collection and reporting requirements will apply to all civil rights data collections initiated on or after the bill's enactment date.
This bill strengthens federal data collection on the educator workforce by requiring the Department of Education's Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights to collect and publish specific metrics on teachers and principals. This expanded collection will be integrated into the existing civil rights data collection process, aiming to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the nation's school staff. For principals, the data will include the number of full-time principals , their median years of experience , and the distribution of experience across various categories. For teachers, the collection will gather the number of full-time teachers , their median years of teaching experience , and experience distribution. Additionally, it will track the number of teachers who meet or do not meet State licensing and certification requirements , and those qualified in specific subjects like mathematics, science, English as a second language, and special education. A crucial aspect of this mandate is the requirement to disaggregate and cross-tabulate all collected data by race, ethnicity, and sex . Following each data collection, the Department must produce a special report on the educator workforce, making it accessible on the Office for Civil Rights website. This report will summarize state-level data and present disaggregated results in an easily understandable format, such as percentages or visual representations. To ensure transparency, the underlying data used for these reports will also be made publicly accessible . The bill emphasizes the importance of data privacy , requiring coordination with the Department's Chief Privacy Officer to protect individually identifiable information for teachers and principals. These new collection and reporting requirements will apply to all civil rights data collections initiated on or after the bill's enactment date.