Law / United States / 
Connecticut
Public school information system: confidentiality of individual student and staff data and district participation
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Governance, Reporting
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the Department of Education, develop and implement a state-wide public school information system designed to establish a standardized electronic data collection and reporting protocol and to maintain the confidentiality of individual student and staff data (section 10-10a(b)).
- Assign a unique student identifier to each student before tracking the student's performance in the system (section 10-10a(b)).
- Track and report the student, teacher, school and district data elements section 10-10a(c) lists, including for students the primary language spoken at the home of a student, student transcripts, and student attendance and student mobility, and from the data section 10-17m requires on the academic progress of students in bilingual education programs (section 10-10a(c)(1), as replaced by Public Act 26-1, section 22).
- If you are the Department of Education, provide data maintained under section 10-10a to a full-time permanent employee of an educational nonprofit organization exempt under Section 501(c)(3) who requests it in writing, not later than sixty days after the request and at the requesting party's reasonable cost (section 10-10a(h)).
- If you are a school district, participate in the system and report all necessary information it requires (section 10-10a(f)).
- If you are a local or regional board of education or a preschool program that receives state or federal funding, participate in the system in the manner the Commissioner of Education prescribes (section 10-10a(g)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 10-10a sets up a state-wide student data collection and reporting system run by the Department of Education and requires districts and funded programs to participate and report. It states the system is designed to maintain the confidentiality of individual student and staff data, and no clause tells the department, a district or a program to keep a log. The section states no territorial clause, so the hook is left empty.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
The Department of Education must develop and implement a state-wide public school information system designed to establish a standardized electronic data collection and reporting protocol and to maintain the confidentiality of individual student and staff data. The department must assign a unique student identifier to each student before tracking the student's performance in the system.
The system must track and report data on student, teacher, school and district performance growth, including for students the primary language spoken at the home of a student, student transcripts, and student attendance and student mobility. The system database of student information is not a public record for purposes of section 1-210.
All school districts must participate in the system and report all necessary information it requires, provided the department provides technical assistance and training of school staff in its use. Local and regional boards of education and preschool programs that receive state or federal funding must participate in the system in a manner the Commissioner of Education prescribes.
On a written request from a full-time permanent employee of a nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and organized and operated for educational purposes, the Department of Education must provide data maintained under section 10-10a within sixty days, at the requesting party's reasonable cost. Public Act 26-1 replaced section 10-10a(c), effective .
As replaced, the student data the system tracks include the data section 10-17m requires on the academic progress of students in bilingual education programs. Section 10-10a took effect , under Public Act 00-187.
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