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The bill increases transparency and helps identify and address teacher supply and equity gaps for students and policymakers, but it imposes additional reporting burden, privacy risks for individual educators in small groups, and modest costs to implement.
Students and families (especially racial/ethnic minorities and women): access to disaggregated data on teacher experience and certification that reveals equity gaps and enables targeted improvement efforts.
State and local policymakers: standardized, regular workforce reports give actionable data to target recruitment, retention, and certification programs (e.g., addressing STEM or special education teacher shortages).
Researchers, the public, and school leaders: publication of detailed counts, qualifications, and underlying data (with visualizations) improves transparency and enables independent analysis and accountability of workforce trends.
Local school districts and LEAs: expanded data collection and reporting requirements increase administrative workload and divert staff time from instruction and local priorities.
Teachers (particularly in small schools or small demographic subgroups): highly disaggregated reporting raises the risk of inadvertent identification of individual educators and potential privacy harms.
Taxpayers and state budgets: collecting, processing, and publishing expanded data may require additional Department/state resources or IT investments, creating new costs.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the OCR to collect and publish expanded, disaggregated educator workforce data (counts, experience, certification/status by subject) in the CRDC and to publish reports and data visualizations.
Official title: Strengthen Federal data collection regarding the teacher and principal workforce.
Introduced April 30, 2026 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress April 30, 2026
Requires the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to collect and publish expanded, disaggregated data on the educator workforce (principals and teachers) as part of the civil rights data collection. Data must include counts, experience measures, certification/licensure status overall and in key subjects, and be disaggregable by race, ethnicity, and sex while protecting privacy; the Department must publish a special report and make underlying data and visualizations publicly accessible after each collection. Sets definitions and privacy coordination, and applies to civil rights collections beginning on or after the Act’s enactment date.