I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6703 
To enable States to implement integrated statewide education longitudinal 
data systems. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 21, 2012 
Mr. HOLT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To enable States to implement integrated statewide education 
longitudinal data systems. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Measuring and Evalu-
ating Trends for Reliability, Integrity, and Continued Suc-
cess (METRICS) Act’’ or the ‘‘METRICS Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ESEA DEFINITIONS.—The terms ‘‘elemen-
tary school’’, ‘‘local educational agency’’, ‘‘secondary 
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school’’, ‘‘Secretary’’, and ‘‘State educational agen-
cy’’ have the meanings given the terms in section 
9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(2) ALIGNED STATEWIDE EDUCATION LONGITU-
DINAL DATA SYSTEMS.—The term ‘‘aligned state-
wide education longitudinal data systems’’ means 
one or more statewide data systems that house and 
link the longitudinal data of individual students, in-
cluding such students’ early childhood, elementary 
school, secondary school, postsecondary education, 
and workforce data. 
(3) ELIGIBLE LOCAL ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligi-
ble local entity’’ means— 
(A) a high-need local educational agency; 
(B) a consortium of high-need local edu-
cational agencies; or 
(C) a high-need local educational agency or 
a consortium of high-need local educational 
agencies and an external partner. 
(4) ELIGIBLE STATE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligi-
ble State entity’’ means a State educational agency, 
which may partner with another public State agency, 
such as a State higher education agency, an early 
childhood agency, a State workforce agency, or a 
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multi-agency State group (such as a preschool 
through grade 20 (P–20) council). 
(5) EXTERNAL PARTNER.—The term ‘‘external 
partner’’ means an entity, such as a nonprofit orga-
nization, community-based organization, local edu-
cation fund, service organization, educational service 
agency, or institution of postsecondary education, 
that has demonstrated expertise and effectiveness in 
providing targeted support (such as data analysis, 
professional development, or the provision of non- 
academic support and integrated student services) to 
local educational agencies, schools, or students that 
leads to improved teaching, learning, and outcomes 
for students, including students who are failing to 
make sufficient progress to graduate in the standard 
number of years or students who have dropped out 
of secondary school. 
(6) HIGH-NEED
LOCAL
EDUCATIONAL
AGEN-
CY.—The term ‘‘high-need local educational agency’’ 
means a local educational agency— 
(A) that serves not less than 10,000 chil-
dren who are from families with incomes below 
the poverty line; or 
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(B) for which not less than 20 percent of 
the children served by such agency are from 
families with incomes below the poverty line. 
(7) POVERTY LINE.—The term ‘‘poverty line’’ 
means the poverty line (as defined and revised annu-
ally in accordance with section 673(2) of the Com-
munity Services Block Grant Act) applicable to a 
family of the size involved. 
SEC. 3. IMPROVING THE USE OF STATEWIDE LONGITU-
DINAL DATA SYSTEMS. 
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—From the funds appro-
priated under section 8 for a fiscal year, the Secretary 
shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible State 
entities to enable such eligible State entities to improve 
access to, sharing of, and use of education data to improve 
student outcomes. 
(b) DURATION.—Each grant awarded under this sec-
tion shall be for a period of not more than 5 years. 
(c) APPLICATIONS.— 
(1) CONTENTS OF APPLICATION.—Each eligible 
State entity that desires to receive a grant under 
this section shall submit an application to the Sec-
retary at such time, in such manner, and containing 
such information as the Secretary may reasonably 
require. Such application shall include the following: 
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(A) A list of State agencies whose coopera-
tion will be necessary for the implementation of 
the grant program, and an assurance of sup-
port from— 
(i) each such agency; 
(ii) the chief State school officer; 
(iii) the Governor of the State; and 
(iv) any other entity that will com-
prise the eligible State entity. 
(B) A description of the State’s status re-
lating to each priority activity described in sub-
section (e)(2), including— 
(i) a demonstration that the State has 
implemented the priority activity; 
(ii) a demonstration that the State 
has, at the time of the application, received 
funding from another source and made 
plans for the implementation of the pri-
ority activity; or 
(iii) a statement that the State has 
not, at the time of the application, imple-
mented, or received funds to implement, 
the priority activity. 
(C) For each priority activity whose status 
is categorized under subparagraph (B)(iii), a 
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description of how the eligible State entity plans 
to use grant funds under this section to carry 
out such activity. 
(D) A description of how the eligible State 
entity plans to use grant funds to carry out the 
permissible activities described in subsection 
(e)(3), if the eligible State entity— 
(i) categorizes the status of many of 
the priority activities described in sub-
section (e)(2) under clause (i) or (ii) of 
subparagraph (B); and 
(ii) anticipates the possibility of hav-
ing remaining grant funds after ensuring 
implementation of each priority activity de-
scribed under subsection (e)(2). 
(E) A description of how activities funded 
under the grant program will— 
(i) support the State’s policy and re-
form goals; 
(ii) support alignment between State 
and local data systems; and 
(iii) support coordination with, or 
alignment or advancement of, related ac-
tivities that are funded through other Fed-
eral programs, including such programs 
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under section 208 of the Educational 
Technical Assistance Act of 2002 (20 
U.S.C. 9607), the American Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 
111–5), the Race to the Top fund under 
section 14006 of such Act, including the 
Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge 
fund under sections 14005, 14006, and 
14013 of such Act (as amended by, and 
subject to the requirements of, section 
1832 of the Full-Year Continuing Appro-
priations Act, 2011 (Public Law 112–10)), 
and the Workforce Data Quality Initiative 
under section 171(c)(2) of the Workforce 
Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 
2916(c)(2)). 
(F) A budget that details how grant funds 
and other funding resources, including State 
and Federal funding, will be used to carry out 
the proposed activities. 
(G) An assurance of the State’s long-term 
financial commitment to— 
(i) 
implementing 
and 
supporting 
aligned statewide education longitudinal 
data systems; and 
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(ii) maintaining such systems after 
the end of the grant program. 
(H) A description of the indicators that 
the eligible State entity will use to determine— 
(i) if grant funds are being used effec-
tively; and 
(ii) the impact of grant funds on im-
proving teaching, learning, and student 
outcomes. 
(I) Any other information that the Sec-
retary may reasonably require. 
(2) FORM
OF
APPLICATION.—In establishing 
the application described under this subsection, the 
Secretary shall, where practicable, require each eligi-
ble State entity to provide a demonstration of the 
capabilities of any system that the eligible State en-
tity is, at the time of the application, using to track 
data, in lieu of a description of such capabilities. 
(d) AWARDING OF GRANTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In awarding grants under 
this section, the Secretary shall— 
(A) use a peer review process, as described 
in paragraph (2); 
(B) select applications that demonstrate 
technical quality, validity, and reliability; 
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(C) promote multi-state collaboration; and 
(D) ensure that applications protect stu-
dent and educator privacy, including through 
compliance with the requirements of Federal, 
State, and local privacy laws (including section 
444 of the General Education Provisions Act 
(commonly known as the ‘‘Family Educational 
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974’’) (20 U.S.C. 
1232g)). 
(2) PEER
REVIEW
PROCESS.—The Secretary 
shall award grants under this section through a peer 
review process that, to the extent practicable, in-
cludes— 
(A) educators; 
(B) users and consumers of statewide lon-
gitudinal data systems, including representa-
tives of State educational agencies; 
(C) individuals with demonstrated tech-
nical expertise in data system construction, in-
tegration, or implementation; and 
(D) representatives of business and the 
workforce. 
(3) COMPETITIVE
PRIORITIES.—In awarding 
grants under this section, the Secretary may give 
priority to eligible State entities that— 
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(A) propose to coordinate efforts with 
other State educational agencies; 
(B) propose to coordinate efforts with local 
educational agencies; and 
(C) fulfill other criteria relating to the pur-
poses of this section, as determined by the Sec-
retary. 
(e) USES OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.— 
(A) REQUIREMENT RELATING TO PRIORITY 
ACTIVITIES.—Each eligible State entity shall 
use grant funds to carry out the priority activi-
ties described in paragraph (2), before such en-
tity may use any remaining funds to carry out 
the permissible activities described in paragraph 
(3). 
(B) EXCEPTION.—An eligible State entity 
is deemed to satisfy the requirements of para-
graph (1) if such entity demonstrates that the 
State has funding for, and has in place, or has 
developed and is implementing a plan that will 
result in the existence of, aligned statewide edu-
cation longitudinal data systems and related ac-
tivities that meet the requirements of para-
graph (2). 
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(2) PRIORITY
ACTIVITIES.—An eligible State 
entity receiving a grant under this section shall use 
grant funds to carry out the following activities: 
(A) Implementing aligned statewide edu-
cation longitudinal data systems that include 
the following: 
(i) With respect to preschool through 
grade 12 education and postsecondary edu-
cation— 
(I) a unique statewide student 
identifier that does not permit a stu-
dent to be individually identified by 
users of the system; 
(II) student-level enrollment, de-
mographic, and program participation 
information; 
(III) 
student-level 
information 
about the points at which students 
exit, transfer in, transfer out, drop 
out, or complete P–16 education pro-
grams; 
(IV) the capacity to communicate 
with higher education data systems; 
and 
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(V) a State data audit system as-
sessing data quality, validity, and reli-
ability. 
(ii) With respect to preschool through 
grade 12 education— 
(I) yearly test records of indi-
vidual students with respect to State 
assessments under section 1111(b)(3) 
of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
6311(b)(3)); 
(II) information on students not 
tested by grade and subject; 
(III) a teacher identifier system 
with the ability to match teachers to 
students; 
(IV) student-level transcript in-
formation, including information on 
courses completed and grades earned; 
and 
(V) student-level college readi-
ness test scores. 
(iii) With respect to postsecondary 
education, data that provide— 
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(I) information regarding the ex-
tent to which students transition suc-
cessfully from secondary school to 
postsecondary 
education, 
including 
whether students enroll in remedial 
coursework; and 
(II) other information determined 
necessary to address alignment and 
adequate preparation for success in 
postsecondary education. 
(B) Establishing inter- and intra-agency 
governance strategies that define policies and 
procedures for the collection, access, and use of 
education data. 
(C) Establishing and implementing com-
prehensive policies and procedures to protect 
the privacy, security, and confidentiality of stu-
dent and educator data, including— 
(i) justifying that data being collected, 
stored, and shared are necessary, useful, 
accurate, and valid; 
(ii) limiting access to personally iden-
tifiable information to necessary and ap-
propriate individuals; 
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(iii) protecting shared data from inap-
propriate use; 
(iv) implementing a data security 
framework (including regular and com-
prehensive training and professional devel-
opment) for the use, dissemination, stor-
age, and maintenance of data; 
(v) providing parental and public no-
tice about data collection, information 
about data policies, and information relat-
ing to the accessibility and use of data; 
(vi) ensuring compliance with the re-
quirements of Federal, State and local pri-
vacy laws, including section 444 of the 
General Education Provisions Act (com-
monly known as the ‘‘Family Educational 
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974’’) (20 
U.S.C. 1232g); and 
(vii) aligning data policies and proce-
dures with best practices for data steward-
ship, including best practices identified by 
the Secretary. 
(D) Establishing the capacity to link edu-
cation data with workforce data. 
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(E) Enabling the matching of the teacher 
identifier described in subparagraph (A)(ii)(III) 
with information about certification or licensure 
and teacher preparation programs, including 
the development of linkages with pre-service 
programs that enable the matching of teacher 
certification and preparation programs to— 
(i) the postsecondary institutions at 
which teachers received their training; 
(ii) job placement; 
(iii) retention rates; and 
(iv) teacher impact on student aca-
demic achievement. 
(F) Enabling standardization of education 
data through the use of openly developed com-
mon education data standards. 
(G) Providing the State with the ability to 
meet Federal reporting requirements, including 
reporting requirements under the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), the American Recovery 
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 
111–5), the Carl D. Perkins Career and Tech-
nical Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2301 
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et seq.), and the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.). 
(3) 
PERMISSIBLE
ACTIVITIES.—An 
eligible 
State entity receiving a grant under this section may 
use remaining grant funds, after ensuring the imple-
mentation of the priority activities described in para-
graph (2), to carry out activities that— 
(A) expand the ability of aligned statewide 
education longitudinal data systems to align 
data that covers the time a student enters pre-
school through the time that such student grad-
uates from secondary school or an institution of 
postsecondary education, and enters and spends 
time in the workforce; 
(B) improve opportunities to access, ana-
lyze, communicate about, and use data from 
aligned statewide education longitudinal data 
systems; or 
(C) build the capacity of teachers, school 
leaders, parents, students, researchers, external 
partners, and the public to use longitudinal 
data for effective decisionmaking. 
(f) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds made 
available under this section shall be used to supplement, 
and not supplant, other State or local funds used for de-
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veloping integrated statewide education longitudinal data 
systems linking early childhood, elementary school, sec-
ondary school, postsecondary, or workforce data. 
SEC. 4. IMPROVING LOCAL USE OF DATA TO IMPROVE STU-
DENT OUTCOMES. 
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—From the funds appro-
priated under section 8 for a fiscal year, the Secretary 
shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible local 
entities to enable educators to improve access to, sharing 
of, and use of education data to improve student out-
comes. 
(b) DURATION.—Each grant awarded under this sec-
tion shall be for a period of not more than 5 years. 
(c) APPLICATIONS.—Each eligible local entity that 
desires to receive a grant under this section shall submit 
an application to the Secretary at such time, in such man-
ner, and containing such information as the Secretary may 
reasonably require. Such application shall include the fol-
lowing: 
(1) A memorandum of understanding between 
the State educational agency and the eligible local 
entity, which shall include— 
(A) a description of the State educational 
agency’s level of participation in the grant; 
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(B) an assurance that the State edu-
cational agency agrees to— 
(i) provide the eligible local entity 
with— 
(I) appropriate access to student 
data from State data systems; and 
(II) cooperation in efforts to 
align local educational agency data 
with data from State data systems; 
and 
(ii) provide training to the eligible 
local entity to address the use of data col-
lection software, privacy policies, Federal, 
State, and local privacy laws (including 
section 444 of the General Education Pro-
visions Act (commonly known as the 
‘‘Family Educational Rights and Privacy 
Act of 1974’’) (20 U.S.C. 1232g)), data 
integrity issues, reporting, planning, and 
processes; 
(C) a description of the State educational 
agency’s strategy for the dissemination of infor-
mation about the successes and challenges of 
the grant activities under this section; and 
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(D) a description of how the State will 
fund the activities described in subparagraph 
(B), including information about any grant 
funds that the eligible local entity will give to 
the State educational agency to carry out the 
activities described in such subparagraph. 
(2) A description of how the local educational 
agencies that are part of the eligible local entity, and 
any educators working for such agencies, submit 
data to, access, and use existing statewide education 
longitudinal data systems, at the time of the applica-
tion. 
(3) A description of the data systems used by 
the eligible local entity at the time of the applica-
tion. 
(4) A description of how activities funded under 
the grant will improve local access to, and use of, 
data that is, at the time of the application, provided 
by data systems at the local and State level. 
(5) A description of how the eligible local entity 
will use funds received under this section to carry 
out the proposed activities in order to improve teach-
ing, learning, and student outcomes. 
(6) A mechanism for soliciting the feedback of 
educators, school leaders, parents, and external part-
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ners in developing, revising, and implementing plans 
and activities under this section. 
(7) A description of how the eligible local entity 
will align the use of funds under this section with 
the technology plan of each local educational agency 
served under the grant. 
(8) A description of the indicators that the eli-
gible local entity will use to determine— 
(A) if grant funds are being used effec-
tively; and 
(B) the impact of grant funds on improv-
ing teaching, learning, and student outcomes. 
(9) Such other information as the Secretary 
may reasonably require. 
(d) AWARDING OF GRANTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In awarding grants under 
this section, the Secretary shall— 
(A) use a peer review process, as described 
in paragraph (2); 
(B) select applications that demonstrate 
technical quality, validity, and reliability; and 
(C) protect student and educator privacy, 
consistent with the requirements of Federal, 
State, and local privacy laws (including section 
444 of the General Education Provisions Act 
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(commonly known as the ‘‘Family Educational 
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974’’) (20 U.S.C. 
1232g)). 
(2) PEER
REVIEW
PROCESS.—In awarding 
grants under this section, the Secretary shall, to the 
extent practicable, use a peer review process that— 
(A) ensures technical quality, validity, and 
reliability; 
(B) ensures that applications protect stu-
dent and educator privacy, consistent with the 
requirements of Federal, State, and local pri-
vacy laws (including section 444 of the General 
Education Provisions Act (commonly known as 
the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act 
of 1974) (20 U.S.C. 1232g)); and 
(C) includes— 
(i) educators; 
(ii) users and consumers of a local 
educational data systems; 
(iii) individuals with demonstrated 
technical expertise in data system con-
struction, integration, or implementation; 
and 
(iv) representatives of business and 
the workforce. 
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(3) CONSIDERATIONS.—In awarding grants 
under this section, the Secretary shall ensure, to the 
greatest extent possible, that grants are awarded to 
eligible local entities that are diverse in terms of ge-
ography, size, and location within an urban, rural, 
or suburban area. 
(e) USES OF FUNDS.— 
(1) REQUIRED USES OF FUNDS.—An eligible 
local entity receiving a grant under this section shall 
use grant funds to develop and implement a com-
prehensive plan for using data to improve teaching, 
learning, and student outcomes. Such plan shall in-
clude strategies designed to— 
(A) provide teachers, school leaders, par-
ents, students, researchers, external partners, 
and the public with access to student education 
data in a way that ensures the quality and in-
tegrity of data contained in data systems and 
respects student and educator privacy, including 
through compliance with the requirements of 
Federal, State, and local privacy laws (including 
section 444 of the General Education Provi-
sions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g)); 
(B) regularly analyze and share appro-
priate student data with educators, counselors, 
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school staff, parents, students, and external 
partners in a way that ensures the quality and 
integrity of data contained in data systems and 
respects student and educator privacy, including 
through compliance with the requirements of 
Federal, State, and local privacy laws (including 
section 444 of the General Education Provi-
sions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g)); 
(C) improve the ability of school leaders 
to— 
(i) use student data to guide school 
improvement efforts; and 
(ii) support classroom use of data 
through high-quality training and profes-
sional development; and 
(D) improve the ability of teachers to ef-
fectively use student data through on-going, 
sustainable, and high-quality professional devel-
opment activities in order to ensure that edu-
cators have the capacity to— 
(i) analyze data and monitor academic 
outcomes; 
(ii) modify instructional activities as 
needed; and 
(iii) differentiate student instructions. 
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(2) ALLOWABLE USES OF FUNDS.—An eligible 
local entity receiving a grant under this section may 
use grant funds to carry out any of the following ac-
tivities: 
(A) Supplementing statewide longitudinal 
data systems existing at the time of the applica-
tion by improving local data systems through— 
(i) the collection of local data ele-
ments that support decisionmaking about 
school improvement; 
(ii) enhancing the ability of educators 
to manage, analyze, disaggregate, or report 
student, teacher, and school data; or 
(iii) standardization through use of 
openly developed common education data 
standards. 
(B) Using new assessment tools that pro-
vide timely data to educators, which can be 
used to identify the learning needs of individual 
students and guide appropriate, personalized in-
structional interventions. 
(C) Using external partners, central office 
staff, or data specialists in order to build educa-
tor capacity to effectively use data to improve 
teaching and learning. 
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(D) Analyzing and disseminating best 
practices, strategies, and approaches regarding 
pedagogical advancement that will leverage the 
local educational agency’s or State educational 
agency’s data system to enhance teaching and 
learning, including opportunities for individual-
ized instruction. 
(E) Analyzing data and realigning existing 
resources to maximize impact on student 
achievement, including the use of early warning 
data to target resources. 
(F) Coordinating activities with other local 
agencies providing services to students. 
(G) Coordinating activities with educator 
preparation programs in order to build edu-
cators’ capacity to use data. 
SEC. 5. NATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT EFFECTIVE 
DATA USE. 
From the funds appropriated under section 8 for a 
fiscal year, the Secretary may carry out the following na-
tional activities: 
(1) Providing technical and policy assistance to 
grantees and non-grantees in order to facilitate im-
plementation, and improve the quality of, student 
longitudinal data systems, including technical assist-
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ance to ensure the protection of personally identifi-
able information. 
(2) Identifying or promoting activities that im-
prove data coordination, quality, and use at the na-
tional, State, and local levels (including activities 
that improve the coordination, quality, and use of 
education data for Indian tribes, tribal organiza-
tions, and schools operated or funded by the Bureau 
of Indian Education). 
(3) Implementing innovative strategies to ad-
vance the use of data. 
(4) Conducting research on emerging trends 
and challenges relating to the collection and use of 
education data. 
(5) Awarding prizes (consistent with section 24 
of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act 
of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3719)). 
(6) Providing funding to support the innovative 
use of data for pilot programs, in order to identify 
and promote models of effective data use in emerg-
ing areas. 
SEC. 6. REPORT. 
Not later than 3 years after the Secretary awards a 
grant under this Act, and annually thereafter, the Sec-
retary shall make publicly available a report on the imple-
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mentation, actual costs, and effectiveness of the activities 
carried out through grants under this Act, including ef-
forts to protect student and educator privacy. 
SEC. 7. TRANSPARENCY. 
(a) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
shall make publicly available a comprehensive and 
searchable description of all reporting requirements 
of the Department that apply to State educational 
agencies, local educational agencies, or schools. Such 
description shall include, for each reporting require-
ment, the following information: 
(A) The definition of the required data ele-
ment or indicator. 
(B) The purpose of the particular data col-
lection. 
(C) The legislative or regulatory source of 
the reporting requirement. 
(D) The level of data (such as the State 
educational agency, local educational agency, in-
stitution of postsecondary education, or school). 
(E) The mechanism of data collection. 
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(F) Information about whether data relat-
ing to the reporting requirement is publicly 
available. 
(2) UPDATES.—The Secretary shall update the 
description required under subsection (a) annually. 
(b) ASSURANCE.—The Secretary shall ensure that if 
a new reporting requirement becomes effective, or if a re-
porting requirement is changed, on or after the date of 
enactment of this Act, each State shall have not less than 
90 days to comply with such requirement. 
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2012 and such sums 
as may be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year. 
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