SECTIONS 10800-10807 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 10800-10807

10800. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the
Education Data and Information Act of 2008.

10801. It is the intent of the Legislature that the design and
implementation of a high-quality, comprehensive, and longitudinal
education data system for California will do the following:
(a) Support a system of continuous learning by delivering timely,
reliable, user-friendly, and relevant information to schoolsite and
district leaders, county offices of education, higher education
leaders, teachers and faculty, education program providers,
policymakers, researchers, parents, pupils, and the public at large.
(b) Provide educators and parents with the tools, reports, and
assistance needed to inform instruction and learning.
(c) Integrate data from disparate sources.
(d) Anticipate and provide the technological capacity for the
sharing of appropriate noneducation data from other state sources
such as health, welfare, juvenile justice, corrections, and
employment agencies, the analysis of which is necessary to fully
understand critical education policy and education finance questions.

10802. (a) The department shall establish a process by which local
educational agencies issue, maintain, and report information using
the unique statewide pupil identifiers specified in paragraph (3) of
subdivision (e) of Section 60900 for state and federally funded
center-based child care and development programs under their purview.
(b) In order to comply with the federal American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) assurances delineated in
Section 6401(e)(2) of the America COMPETES Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 9871),
the department shall establish the process referenced in subdivision
(a) no later than January 1, 2011.
(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that on or before January
1, 2011, the department, at a minimum, ensures that the data elements
pertaining to preschool described in Section 6401(e)(2)(D) of the
America COMPETES Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 9871) be collected for all
preschool programs operated by a local educational agency.
(d) Except to the extent required by federal law, or as needed to
ensure compliance with federal law, the department shall not require
these center-based child care and development programs to implement
or maintain unique pupil identifiers specified in paragraph (3) of
subdivision (e) of Section 60900 until an appropriation for this
purpose is provided in the annual Budget Act or another statute.

10802.5. It is the intent of the Legislature that, on or before
January 1, 2011, and to the extent an appropriation is provided for
this purpose, the department, at a minimum, ensures that the data
elements pertaining to success in the 21st Century workforce
described in Section 6401(a)(2)(B)(ii) and (e)(1)(A)(ii) of the
federal America COMPETES Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 9871) be collected for
career technical education programs operated by a local educational
agency.

10803. (a) The Chancellor's Office of the California Community
Colleges, the University of California, and the California State
University shall each establish a process by which colleges and
universities within those systems issue, maintain, and report
information using the unique statewide pupil identifiers specified in
paragraph (3) of subdivision (e) of Section 60900.
(b) Annually, on or before April 1, the Chancellor's Office of the
California Community Colleges, the University of California, and the
California State University shall provide a progress report to the
Governor and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the
Legislature. The report shall include a detailed timeline for the
implementation, maintenance, and use of the unique statewide pupil
identifiers pursuant to subdivision (a).

10804. (a) The State Chief Information Officer appointed pursuant
to Section 11545 of the Government Code shall convene a working group
representing, at a minimum, the state board, the Superintendent, the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the University of
California, the California State University, and any other
governmental entities that collect, report, or use individual pupil
education data that would become part of the comprehensive education
data system. The State Chief Information Officer shall form an
advisory committee to the working group that includes school and
district administrators, teachers and faculty, education program
providers, policymakers, researchers, parents, and pupils.
(b) The working group convened pursuant to this section shall
create a strategic plan to link education data systems from all
segments and to accomplish all of the following:
(1) Provide an overall structural design for the linked education
data systems.
(2) Examine current state education data systems.
(3) Examine the protocols and procedures to be used by state
agencies in data processing, including, but not limited to,
collecting, storing, manipulating, sharing, retrieving, and releasing
data so as to enable each state agency to accurately and efficiently
collect and share data with the other state agencies while complying
with all applicable state and federal privacy laws.
(4) Identify specific procedures and policies that would be
necessary to ensure the privacy of pupil record information so as to
meet both federal requirements and the higher expectations of privacy
held by the state.
(5) Identify specific procedures and policies that would
facilitate the sharing and transfer of data from one segment to
another and ultimately to include linkages to workforce data.
(c) The strategic plan shall be delivered by the State Chief
Information Officer to the Legislature and the Governor on or before
January 1, 2010.
(d) This section may be implemented using federal grant funds
received pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009 (Public Law 111-5) through that act's provision of funds for
statewide data systems under the federal Education Technical
Assistance Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq.).

10805. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Commission on Teacher
Credentialing, the state board, and the department shall provide to
the State Chief Information Officer the individual nonpersonally
identifiable or aggregate data related to teacher distribution,
educator credential status, pupil assessment and accountability, or
other pupil academic and achievement data, including, but not limited
to, data generated from, or related to, the Standardized Testing and
Reporting (STAR) Program, the high school exit examination, the
English language development test, the Academic Performance Index
(API), and adequate yearly progress data and calculations, graduation
rates, pupils who dropout of school, and demographics of pupils and
teachers.
(b) The data provided pursuant to the section shall be provided as
follows:
(1) In a format that is agreeable to all relevant parties.
(2) In a timely manner, according to a schedule agreed upon by all
relevant parties.
(3) At no cost to the State Chief Information Officer.
(c) The State Chief Information Officer may release the
information provided pursuant to subdivision (a) in any of the
following manners:
(1) On paper at a single location that is accessible to the
public.
(2) Electronically at a single location that is accessible to the
public.
(3) Electronically via the Internet
(d) The State Chief Information Officer shall ensure that the use
of this data is in compliance with applicable state and federal
privacy laws.

10806. In meeting the requirements of this chapter, state agencies,
local educational agencies, and the officers and appointees of those
agencies shall consider and comply with state and federal privacy
law and ensure the highest, appropriate security protections are in
place in order to provide the maximum protection of privacy.

10807. The department, the University of California, the California
State University, the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the Employment
Development Department, and the California School Information
Services established in Section 49081 may enter into interagency
agreements in order to facilitate all of the following:
(a) The implementation of a comprehensive longitudinal education
data system for California.
(b) The transfer of data from one educational segment to another.
(c) The transfer of workforce data to the educational segments.