SEC. 3. IMPROVING THE USE OF STATEWIDE LONGITU-
DINAL DATA SYSTEMS. 
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of Edu-
cation is authorized to award grants of up to 5 years, on 
a competitive basis, to State educational agencies to en-
able such agencies to improve access to, sharing of, and 
use of, education data to improve student outcomes. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant under this section, a State educational agency 
shall have integrated statewide education longitu-
dinal data systems that includes the following: 
(A) The required data elements of a state-
wide education longitudinal data system de-
scribed in section 6401(e)(2)(D) of the America 
COMPETES Act (20 U.S.C. 9871(e)(2)(D)). 
(B) The following design elements: 
(i) Compliance with section 444 of the 
General Education Provisions Act (20 
U.S.C. 1232g) (commonly known as the 
Family Educational Rights and Privacy 
Act of 1974). 
(ii) Ability to generate data easily for 
continuous improvement and decision-mak-
ing such as timely reporting to parents, 
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teachers, and school leaders about student 
achievement. 
(iii) Ability to facilitate the exchange 
of data among agencies within a State and 
between States utilizing standard data 
structures, standards, formats, and data 
definitions. 
(iv) A data warehouse, data reposi-
tory, or systemic capacity to link statewide 
data systems that stores, organizes, and 
links student, school, and district informa-
tion over time with the ability to customize 
queries. 
(v) A State data audit process to en-
sure data quality, validity, and reliability. 
(2) EXCEPTION.—A State educational agencies 
is deemed to satisfy the requirement of paragraph 
(1) if it demonstrates that it has developed and is 
implementing a plan that will result in the existence 
of integrated statewide education longitudinal data 
systems described in such paragraph. 
(c) USES OF FUNDS.— 
(1) REQUIRED USES OF FUNDS.—A State edu-
cational agency receiving a grant under this section 
shall use the funds to— 
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(A) expand the ability of integrated state-
wide education longitudinal data systems to link 
student-level data across the prekindergarten to 
higher education and workforce pipeline and 
across State agencies, through activities such 
as— 
(i) linking State data systems with 
early learning, postsecondary education, 
workforce, social services, and other critical 
State agency data systems; and linking 
data across programs and activities within 
State agencies; 
(ii) identifying processes to guide data 
collection, sharing and use; and 
(iii) improving State data warehouses, 
repositories, or systemic capacity to link 
statewide data systems across agencies; 
(B) improve opportunities to access, ana-
lyze, and use data from integrated statewide 
education longitudinal data systems, through 
activities such as— 
(i) creating portals for teachers, lead-
ers, parents, students, and the public to 
access data in a way that respects student 
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and educator privacy and is appropriate to 
each stakeholder’s role; 
(ii) creating progress reports with in-
dividual student data that provide informa-
tion educators, parents and students can 
use to improve student performance; 
(iii) creating reports that include lon-
gitudinal statistics on school systems and 
groups of students to guide school-, 
district- and State-level improvement ef-
forts; and 
(iv) making data efficiently available 
to researchers, analysts, and evaluators, 
consistent with student and educator pri-
vacy protections, to facilitate the identifica-
tion of effective programs and practices 
through data analysis; and 
(C) build the capacity of teachers, leaders, 
parents, students, researchers, and the public to 
use longitudinal data for effective decision-
making, through activities such as— 
(i) implementing strategies to ensure 
that educators know how to access, ana-
lyze, and use data appropriately, through 
activities such as— 
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