(105 ILCS 13/5)
Sec. 5. Findings; declarations. The General Assembly finds and declares all of the following:
(1) Sound data collection, reporting, and analysis
| are critical to building a State education system capable of ensuring all Illinois students are adequately prepared for college and the global workforce. School districts and institutions of higher learning can improve instructional and educational decision‑making using data that is collected and made available by this State. | |
(2) Reliable and sufficient education data is |
| necessary to ensure that this State bases education policy decisions on valid, objective measures of student outcomes. Publicly accessible data on State, school district, and school performance allows the citizens of this State to assess local and statewide investments in education. | |
(3) A national collaborative effort among State |
| education officials, national education organizations, and state and federal policymakers has defined the essential elements a State longitudinal data system should contain. Public Law 110‑69, the America COMPETES Act, requires state longitudinal data systems to include all 10 elements identified by this national, collaborative effort for states to qualify for federal funding opportunities. The federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 requires states to establish longitudinal data systems with all 10 elements to qualify for federal funding for education, public safety, and other government services. | |
(4) Public Law 110‑134 requires the Illinois Early |
| Learning Council to develop recommendations regarding the establishment of a unified data collection system for public early childhood education and development programs and services throughout this State, and those efforts should be coordinated with the development of this State's longitudinal data system. | |
(5) State education policymaking benefits from |
| partnerships between State education agencies and entities with expertise in education research, including school districts, institutions of higher learning, and research organizations. This State should establish systems and processes to permit qualified researchers to assist with State evaluation and research functions in a manner consistent with privacy protection laws. | |
(6) State education systems and national policymaking |
| benefit from multi‑state collaborations that are informed by high quality data collection systems. | |
(7) This State is committed to establishing and |
| maintaining a longitudinal student unit record data system that educators and policymakers can use to analyze and assess student progress from early learning programs through postsecondary education and into employment. The State Board of Education, the Illinois Community College Board, and the Board of Higher Education have designed, built, and deployed some of the fundamental components of a longitudinal data system and have engaged in extensive efforts to effectively link and use available education data. However, the various education data components maintained by this State must be integrated and managed in a cooperative manner to establish a data‑driven, decision‑making environment for this State's education system. | |
(8) The longitudinal data system established by this |
| Act is intended, among other purposes, to link student test scores, length of enrollment, and graduation records over time, as permitted by Section 1111(b)(3)(B) of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. 6311(b)(3)(B)). | |
(9) Students will achieve improved learning outcomes |
| as a result of the longitudinal data system established by this Act through instruction and educational programs informed by valid and reliable data. | |
(10) State use and management of education data must |
| be in accordance with all legal requirements protecting student privacy and must protect personal information from intentional or accidental release to unauthorized persons and from intentional or accidental use for unauthorized purposes. | |
(Source: P.A. 96‑107, eff. 7‑30‑09.) |
(105 ILCS 13/15)
Sec. 15. Establishment of the longitudinal data system and data warehouse.
(a) The State Education Authorities shall jointly establish and maintain a longitudinal data system by entering into one or more agreements that link early learning, elementary, and secondary school student unit records with institution of higher learning student unit records. To the extent authorized by this Section and Section 20 of this Act:
(1) the State Board is responsible for collecting
| and maintaining authoritative enrollment, completion, and student characteristic information on early learning, public school (kindergarten through grade 12), and non‑public school (kindergarten through grade 12) students; | |
(2) the Community College Board is responsible for |
| collecting and maintaining authoritative enrollment, completion, and student characteristic information on community college students; and | |
(3) the Board of Higher Education is responsible for |
| collecting and maintaining authoritative enrollment, completion, and student characteristic information on students enrolled in institutions of higher learning, other than community colleges. | |
(b) On or before June 30, 2013, subject to the availability of funding through appropriations made specifically for the purposes of this Act, the State Education Authorities shall improve and expand the longitudinal data system to enable the State Education Authorities to perform or cause to be performed all of the following activities and functions:
(1) Reduce, to the maximum extent possible, the data |
| collection burden on school districts and institutions of higher learning by using data submitted to the system for multiple reporting and analysis functions. | |
(2) Provide authorized officials of early learning |
| programs, schools, school districts, and institutions of higher learning with access to their own student‑level data, summary reports, and data that can be integrated with additional data maintained outside of the system to inform education decision‑making. | |
(3) Link data to instructional management tools that |
| support instruction and assist collaboration among teachers and postsecondary instructors. | |
(4) Enhance and expand existing high |
| school‑to‑postsecondary reporting systems to inform school and school district officials, education policymakers, and members of the public about public school students' performance in postsecondary education. | |
(5) Provide data reporting, analysis, and planning |
| tools that assist with financial oversight, human resource management, and other education support functions. | |
(6) Improve student access to educational |
| opportunities by linking data to student college and career planning portals, facilitating the submission of electronic transcripts and scholarship and financial aid applications, and enabling the transfer of student records to officials of a school or institution of higher learning where a student enrolls or seeks or intends to enroll. | |
(7) Establish a public Internet web interface that |
| provides non‑confidential data reports and permits queries so that parents, the media, and other members of the public can more easily access information pertaining to statewide, district, and school performance. | |
(8) Provide research and reports to the General |
| Assembly that assist with evaluating the effectiveness of specific programs and that enable legislators to analyze educational performance within their legislative districts. | |
(9) Allow the State Education Authorities to |
| efficiently meet federal and State reporting requirements by drawing data for required reports from multiple State systems. | |
(10) Establish a system to evaluate teacher and |
| administrator preparation programs using student academic growth as one component of evaluation. | |
(11) In accordance with a data sharing agreement |
| entered into between the State Education Authorities and the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, establish procedures and systems to evaluate the relationship between need‑based financial aid and student enrollment and success in institutions of higher learning. | |
(12) In accordance with data sharing agreements |
| entered into between the State Education Authorities and health and human service agencies, establish procedures and systems to evaluate the relationship between education and other student and family support systems. | |
(13) In accordance with data sharing agreements |
| entered into between the State Education Authorities and employment and workforce development agencies, establish procedures and systems to evaluate the relationship between education programs and outcomes and employment fields, employment locations, and employment outcomes. | |
(c) On or before June 30, 2013, subject to the availability of funding through appropriations made specifically for the purposes of this Act, the State Board shall establish a data warehouse that integrates data from multiple student unit record systems and supports all of the uses and functions of the longitudinal data system set forth in this Act. The data warehouse must be developed in cooperation with the Community College Board and the Board of Higher Education and must have the ability to integrate longitudinal data from early learning through the postsecondary level in accordance with one or more data sharing agreements entered into among the State Education Authorities. The data warehouse, as integrated with the longitudinal data system, must include, but is not limited to, all of the following elements:
(1) A unique statewide student identifier that |
| connects student data across key databases across years. The unique statewide student identifier must not be derived from a student's social security number and must be provided to institutions of higher learning to assist with linkages between early learning through secondary and postsecondary data. | |
(2) Student‑level enrollment, demographic, and |
| program participation information, including information on participation in dual credit programs. | |
(3) The ability to match individual students' |
| elementary and secondary test records from year to year to measure academic growth. | |
(4) Information on untested students in the |
| elementary and secondary levels, and the reasons they were not tested. | |
(5) A teacher and administrator identifier system |
| with the ability to match students to early learning, elementary, and secondary teachers and elementary and secondary administrators. Information able to be obtained only as a result of the linkage of teacher and student data through the longitudinal data system may not be used by a school district for decisions involving teacher pay or teacher benefits unless the district and the exclusive bargaining representative of the district's teachers, if any, have agreed to this use. Information able to be obtained only as a result of the linkage of teacher and student data through the longitudinal data system may not be used by a school district as part of an evaluation under Article 24A of the School Code unless, in good faith cooperation with the school district's teachers or, where applicable, the exclusive bargaining representative of the school district's teachers, the school district has developed an evaluation plan or substantive change to an evaluation plan that specifically describes the school district's rationale for using this information for evaluations, how this information will be used as part of the evaluation process, and how this information will relate to evaluation standards. However, nothing in this subdivision (5) or elsewhere in this Act limits or restricts (i) a district's use of any local or State data that has been obtained independently from the linkage of teacher and student data through the longitudinal data system or (ii) a charter school's use of any local or State data in connection with teacher pay, benefits, or evaluations. | |
(6) Student‑level transcript information, including |
| information on courses completed and grades earned, from middle and high schools. The State Board shall establish a statewide course classification system based upon the federal School Codes for Exchange of Data or a similar course classification system. Each school district and charter school shall map its course descriptions to the statewide course classification system for the purpose of State reporting. School districts and charter schools are not required to change or modify the locally adopted course descriptions used for all other purposes. The State Board shall establish or contract for the establishment of a technical support and training system to assist schools and districts with the implementation of this item (6) and shall, to the extent possible, collect transcript data using a system that permits automated reporting from district student information systems. | |
(7) Student‑level college readiness test scores.
(8) Student‑level graduation and dropout data.
(9) The ability to match early learning through |
| secondary student unit records with institution of higher learning student unit record systems. | |
(10) A State data audit system assessing data |
| quality, validity, and reliability. | |
(d) Using data provided to and maintained by the longitudinal data system, the State Education Authorities may, in addition to functions and activities specified elsewhere in this Section, perform and undertake the following:
(1) research for or on behalf of early learning |
| programs, schools, school districts, or institutions of higher learning, which may be performed by one or more State Education Authorities or through agreements with research organizations meeting all of the requirements of this Act and privacy protection laws; and | |
(2) audits or evaluations of federal or |
| State‑supported education programs and activities to enforce federal or State legal requirements with respect to those programs. Each State Education Authority may assist another State Education Authority with audit, evaluation, or enforcement activities and may disclose education records with each other for those activities relating to any early learning through postsecondary program. The State Education Authorities may disclose student information to authorized officials of a student's former early learning program, school, or school district to assist with the evaluation of federal or State‑supported education programs. | |
(e) In establishing, operating, and expanding the longitudinal data system, the State Education Authorities shall convene stakeholders and create opportunities for input and advice in the areas of data ownership, data use, research priorities, data management, confidentiality, data access, and reporting from the system. Such stakeholders include, but are not limited to, public and non‑public institutions of higher learning, school districts, charter schools, non‑public elementary and secondary schools, early learning programs, teachers, professors, parents, principals and administrators, school research consortiums, education policy and advocacy organizations, news media, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, the Illinois Education Research Council, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Illinois Early Learning Council, and the Legislative Research Unit.
(f) Representatives of the State Education Authorities shall report to and advise the Illinois P‑20 Council on the implementation, operation, and expansion of the longitudinal data system.
(g) Appropriations made to the State Education Authorities for the purposes of this Act shall be used exclusively for expenses for the development and operation of the longitudinal data system. Authorized expenses of the State Education Authorities may relate to contracts with outside vendors for the development and operation of the system, agreements with other governmental entities or research organizations for authorized uses and functions of the system, technical support and training for entities submitting data to the system, or regular or contractual employees necessary for the system's development or operation.
(Source: P.A. 96‑107, eff. 7‑30‑09.) |
(105 ILCS 13/25)
Sec. 25. Data sharing.
(a) The State Education Authorities may disclose data from the longitudinal data system collected pursuant to Section 20 of this Act only in connection with a data sharing arrangement meeting the requirements of this Section.
(b) Any State agency, board, authority, or commission may enter into a data sharing arrangement with one or more of the State Education Authorities to share data to support the research and evaluation activities authorized by this Act. State Education Authorities may also enter into data sharing arrangements with other governmental entities, institutions of higher learning, and research organizations that support the research and evaluation activities authorized by this Act.
(c) Any data sharing arrangement entered into pursuant to this Section must:
(1) be permissible under and undertaken in accordance |
| with privacy protection laws; |
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(2) be approved by the following persons:
(A) the State Superintendent of Education or his |
| or her designee for the use of early learning, public school, and non‑public school student data; |
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(B) the chief executive officer of the Community |
| College Board or his or her designee for the use of community college student data; and |
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(C) the executive director of the Board of Higher |
| Education or his or her designee for the use of student data from an institution of higher learning, other than a community college; |
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(3) not permit the personal identification of any |
| person by individuals other than authorized representatives of the recipient entity that have legitimate interests in the information; |
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(4) ensure the destruction or return of the data when |
| no longer needed for the authorized purposes under the data sharing arrangement; and |
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(5) be performed pursuant to a written agreement with |
| the recipient entity that does the following: |
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(A) specifies the purpose, scope, and duration |
| of the data sharing arrangement; |
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(B) requires the recipient of the data to use |
| personally identifiable information from education records to meet only the purpose or purposes of the data sharing arrangement stated in the written agreement; |
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(C) describes specific data access, use, and |
| security restrictions that the recipient will undertake; and |
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(D) includes such other terms and provisions as |
| the State Education Authorities deem necessary to carry out the intent and purposes of this Act. |
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(d) Data that has been submitted to the Board by a consortium of non‑public colleges and universities is prohibited from being included in any interstate data‑sharing agreements with other states unless consortium participants agree to allow interstate data sharing.
Any non‑public college may prohibit its data from being shared with any other state.
Any non‑public college may prohibit its data from being included in any interstate data‑sharing agreement.
(Source: P.A. 96‑107, eff. 7‑30‑09; 96‑1249, eff. 7‑23‑10.) |