Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act

More educator data on teachers and principals

This bill would require the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education to collect and publish new data about teachers and principals as part of the federal Civil Rights Data Collection. For each local education agency (LEA) and each public elementary and secondary school that responds, the collection would report counts of full‑time principals and full‑time teachers. It would report median years of experience and experience distributions for principals (less than 1 year; 1 to less than 3 years; 3 to less than 7 years; 7 to less than 15 years; and 15 or more years) and for teachers (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; and 20 or more years). The collection would also report counts of full‑time teachers who meet all State licensing and certification requirements, counts who do not meet all requirements, and counts of full‑time teachers who meet license, certificate, and endorsement requirements in Mathematics, Science, English as a second language, and Special education. The data would be disaggregated and cross‑tabulated by race, ethnicity, and sex subject to privacy protections, and the Assistant Secretary would coordinate with the Department’s Chief Privacy Officer. After each covered collection, the Office for Civil Rights would publish a special report with State totals and disaggregated results and would post the underlying data on the OCR website. This requirement would apply to civil rights data collections that begin on or after the date of enactment.