Section 221. Value-added Assessment System.--(a) Beginning on the effective date of this section, the Department of Education shall make available on its publicly accessible Internet website the following:
(1) Value-added assessment system data for the school district level and the school level. The Department of Education's disclosure of value-added assessment system data shall be subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (Public Law 90-247, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g) or a successor Federal statute.
(2) Instructions that may assist the public in understanding and interpreting the data provided under paragraph (1).
(b) For purposes of this section:
"Value-added assessment system" shall mean a statistical analysis of results on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment test or any other test established by the State Board of Education to meet the requirements of section 2603-B(d)(10)(i) pursuant to 22 Pa. Code § 403.3 (relating to single accountability system) that uses measures of student learning to enable the estimation of school or school district statistical distributions.
(221 added Nov. 17, 2010, P.L.996, No.104)
Compiler's Note: Section 24 of Act 104 of 2010, which added section 221, provided that any regulations that are inconsistent with Act 104 are hereby abrogated to the extent of the inconsistency.