Law / United States / 
Rhode Island
All Students Count Act: student demographic data published without personal identifying information and with small student groups notated
R.I. Gen. Laws secs. 16-108-2 and 16-108-3
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Disclosure, Governance
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the department of elementary and secondary education, or a state agency or local municipality from which it collects student demographic data, comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and observe criteria for ensuring statistical significance of the data you collect and publish (section 16-108-3(a)(4)).
- Notate district-reported data for a student group that has too few students for evaluation, as defined by a minimum size of ten (section 16-108-3(a)(4)(i)).
- Post the demographic data on your website and update it annually, treating personal identifying information as confidential and leaving it out of the public data (section 16-108-3(a)(6)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 16-108-3 requires an entity to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, notate small student groups and post demographic data without personal identifying information. It sets no log, record kept, period, or access for a regulator, so no logging duty is coded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 16-108-3(a)(4) of the Rhode Island General Laws requires each entity to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and to observe criteria for ensuring statistical significance of data collected and published. Section 16-108-3(a)(4)(i) of the Rhode Island General Laws requires districts reporting data with a student group that has too few students, as defined by a minimum size of ten, for evaluation to notate it.
Section 16-108-3(a)(6) of the Rhode Island General Laws requires each entity to make the demographic data publicly available, except for personal identifying information, which is deemed confidential, by posting it on the entity's website, and to update it annually.
Section 16-108-2(1) of the Rhode Island General Laws defines entity as the Rhode Island department of elementary and secondary education, its subagencies and state agency(s) and local municipalities from which it collects demographic data. Section 16-108-3(b) of the Rhode Island General Laws provides that the chapter applies only to the collection of data for students in the public elementary and secondary education system.
Public Law 2017, chapter 102 (H 5453 Substitute A), which added the All Students Count Act, was enacted on . The 2017 act that added the All Students Count Act takes effect upon passage.
Section 16-108-3(a) of the Rhode Island General Laws applies those duties whenever the department of elementary and secondary education collects demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origins of students for a report that includes educational proficiencies, graduation rates, attendance rates, and access to educational resources.
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