The "Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act" aims to enhance federal data collection regarding the teacher and principal workforce. It mandates that the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the Department of Education expand the existing civil rights data collection to include specific metrics on educators. This new requirement applies to all local educational agencies and public elementary or secondary schools that are already subject to the civil rights data collection. The bill specifies detailed data points to be collected for both principals and teachers. For principals, this includes the number of full-time principals , their median years of experience , and categorized years of experience. For teachers, the collection will cover the number of full-time teachers , their median years of teaching experience , categorized years of experience, and the number of teachers who meet or do not meet State licensing and certification requirements . Additionally, it will track teachers meeting endorsement requirements in key subjects like Mathematics, Science, English as a second language, and Special education. Crucially, all collected data must be disaggregated and cross-tabulated by race, ethnicity, and sex to provide a comprehensive view of workforce demographics. Following each data collection, the Secretary must prepare a special report on the educator workforce, accessible through the Office for Civil Rights website. This report will summarize state-level principal and teacher numbers and present disaggregated results by race, ethnicity, sex, and experience levels in an easily accessible format. The underlying data used for these reports will also be made publicly available, with strict provisions for teacher and principal privacy and confidentiality of individually identifiable information.
The "Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act" aims to enhance federal data collection regarding the teacher and principal workforce. It mandates that the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the Department of Education expand the existing civil rights data collection to include specific metrics on educators. This new requirement applies to all local educational agencies and public elementary or secondary schools that are already subject to the civil rights data collection. The bill specifies detailed data points to be collected for both principals and teachers. For principals, this includes the number of full-time principals , their median years of experience , and categorized years of experience. For teachers, the collection will cover the number of full-time teachers , their median years of teaching experience , categorized years of experience, and the number of teachers who meet or do not meet State licensing and certification requirements . Additionally, it will track teachers meeting endorsement requirements in key subjects like Mathematics, Science, English as a second language, and Special education. Crucially, all collected data must be disaggregated and cross-tabulated by race, ethnicity, and sex to provide a comprehensive view of workforce demographics. Following each data collection, the Secretary must prepare a special report on the educator workforce, accessible through the Office for Civil Rights website. This report will summarize state-level principal and teacher numbers and present disaggregated results by race, ethnicity, sex, and experience levels in an easily accessible format. The underlying data used for these reports will also be made publicly available, with strict provisions for teacher and principal privacy and confidentiality of individually identifiable information.