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The bill increases transparency and data access to support equity monitoring and better education policy, but does so at the expense of additional reporting burden, potential privacy risks to educators, and higher federal/taxpayer costs.
Teachers, principals, and schools get more transparent workforce data that can support targeted professional supports and local policy decisions (e.g., staffing, training, retention).
Parents, students, and communities gain access to disaggregated educator metrics (by race, ethnicity, sex, experience), allowing monitoring of equity, representation, and local accountability.
Policymakers and researchers obtain underlying workforce data for analysis to improve teacher recruitment, retention, credentialing, and evidence-based education policy.
Making detailed educator data public risks exposing individually identifiable teachers if strong privacy safeguards are not enforced.
Collecting and preparing disaggregated data increases reporting burden on local education agencies and schools, diverting staff time and resources.
Expanded federal data collection, publication, and maintenance will raise implementation and ongoing costs for the Department and taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Department of Education to collect and publish standardized, disaggregated K–12 educator workforce data (counts, experience, certification, endorsements) and publish visual state reports.
Official title: To strengthen Federal data collection regarding the teacher and principal workforce.
Introduced April 30, 2026 by Eric Sorensen · Last progress April 30, 2026
Requires the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights to collect, publish, and make publicly available standardized educator workforce data for public K–12 schools and local education agencies. Data must include counts of teachers and principals, experience measures, certification status, and subject endorsements, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and sex where privacy allows, and presented in visual reports and downloadable datasets. Applies to civil rights data collections that begin on or after enactment and requires coordination with the Department’s privacy officer to limit release of personally identifiable information while making aggregated and underlying data accessible at the school and state levels.