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The bill increases transparency and data access to help policymakers, researchers, schools, and communities improve educator equity and workforce decisions, but it creates privacy risks, additional administrative burdens for local schools, and added costs for government and taxpayers.
State and local policymakers and education researchers gain access to underlying, disaggregated educator workforce data, enabling evidence-driven improvements to teacher recruitment, retention, credentialing, and systemwide policy.
Teachers, principals, and schools get more transparent workforce data that can be used to target supports, professional development, and local policy decisions to improve school functioning and educator effectiveness.
Parents, families, students, and community stakeholders can view disaggregated educator metrics (by race, ethnicity, sex, experience), improving public oversight of equity, representation, and fairness in staffing.
Public release of detailed, disaggregated educator data risks exposing individually identifiable teachers unless strong privacy protections and de-identification safeguards are applied.
Collecting, preparing, and reporting the required detailed data will increase administrative and reporting burdens on local education agencies and schools, diverting staff time and resources.
Expanded federal data collection, processing, and publication will raise costs for the Department of Education and taxpayers to implement and maintain new reporting and data systems.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds required educator workforce metrics to the Civil Rights Data Collection and requires public State-level reports and underlying data access while protecting individual privacy.
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 Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to collect and publish detailed educator workforce data for public K–12 schools and LEAs as part of the routine civil rights data collection. The data set must include counts of full-time teachers and principals, experience measures, certification/licensure status, subject endorsements in core areas, and disaggregation by race, ethnicity, and sex, and must be published with visual, State-level reports and publicly accessible underlying data while protecting individual privacy. The requirement applies to civil rights data collections that begin on or after enactment and directs the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights to coordinate with the Department’s Chief Privacy Officer to avoid disclosure of individually identifiable educator information.