Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act

New educator workforce data reporting

If enacted, the Department of Education would collect and publish standard educator workforce data as part of future civil rights data collections. For each local educational agency and each public school, the Department would report counts of full-time principals and full-time teachers. The report would show principal experience as median years and in these categories: less than 1 year; 1 to less than 3 years; 3 to less than 7 years; 7 to less than 15 years; 15 or more years. The report would show teacher experience as median years and in these categories: less than 1 year; 1 to less than 2 years; 2 to less than 5 years; 5 to less than 10 years; 10 to less than 20 years; 20 or more years. Teacher experience measures would exclude student teaching and similar preparation. The Department would also report counts of full-time teachers who do and do not meet State licensing and certification requirements, and counts of teachers meeting license/certificate/endorsement requirements in Mathematics, Science, English as a second language, and Special education. All data would be collected to allow disaggregation and cross-tabulation by race, ethnicity, and sex where applicable. The Office for Civil Rights would prepare a special State-level report, post results and underlying data on its website, and coordinate with the Department’s Chief Privacy Officer to protect individual privacy. These rules would apply only to civil rights data collections that begin on or after the law's enactment.