20-7-104. Transparency and public availability of public school performance data -- reporting. (1) The office of public instruction shall develop a publicly available data system that displays an educational data profile for each school district.
     (2) Each school district's educational profile must include, at a minimum, the following elements:
     (a) school district contact information and links to district websites, when available;
     (b) state criterion-referenced testing results;
     (c) program and course offerings;
     (d) student enrollment and demographics by grade level; and
     (e) graduation rates.
     (3) Each school district shall annually report to the office of public instruction and publish and post on the school district's internet website the following district data for the preceding school year:
     (a) the number and type of employee positions, including administrators;
     (b) for the current employee in each position:
     (i) the total amount of compensation paid to the employee by the district. The total amount of compensation includes but is not limited to the employee's base wage or salary, overtime pay, and other income from school-sanctioned extracurricular activities, including coaching and similar activities; and
     (ii) the certification held by and required of the employee;
     (c) the student-teacher ratio by grade;
     (d) (i) the amount, by category, spent by the district for operation and maintenance, stated in total cost and cost per square foot; and
     (ii) the amount of principal and interest paid on bonds;
     (e) the total district expenditures per student;
     (f) the total budget for all funds;
     (g) the total number of students enrolled and the average daily attendance;
     (h) the total amount spent by the district on extracurricular activities and the total number of students that participated in extracurricular activities; and
     (i) the number of students that entered the 9th grade in the school district but did not graduate from a high school in that district and for which the school district did not receive a transfer request. For reporting purposes, the students identified under this subsection (3)(i) are considered to have dropped out of school.
     (4) Each school district shall also post on the school district's internet website a copy of every working agreement the district has with any organized labor organization and the district's costs, if any, associated with employee union representation, collective bargaining, and union grievance procedures and litigation resulting from union employee grievances.
     (5) If a school district does not have an internet website, the school district shall publish the information required under subsections (2) and (3) in printed form and provide a copy of the information upon request at the cost incurred by the school district for printing only.
     (6) The superintendent of public instruction shall continually enhance the statewide data system to support the collection of data from schools, implement a data collection plan to reduce redundant data requests, increase data use from the centralized system by various functions within the office of public instruction, and promote transparency in reporting to schools, school districts, communities, and the public. Actionable data analysis must be produced to promote academic improvement.
     (7) The superintendent of public instruction shall gather, maintain, and distribute longitudinal, actionable data in the following areas:
     (a) statewide student identifier;
     (b) student-level enrollment data, including average daily attendance;
     (c) student-level statewide assessment data;
     (d) information on untested students;
     (e) student-level graduation and dropout data;
     (f) ability to match student-level K-12 and higher education data;
     (g) a statewide data audit system;
     (h) a system to track student achievement with a direct teacher-to-student match to help track, report, and create opportunities for improved individual student performance;
     (i) student-level course completion data, including transcripts, to assess career and college readiness; and
     (j) student-level ACT results, scholastic achievement test results, and advanced placement exam data.
     (8) The superintendent of public instruction shall emphasize the creation of and distribution of individual diagnostic data for each student in a manner that is timely and protects the privacy rights of students and families as they relate to education so that school districts may use the data to support timely academic intervention as needed and to otherwise improve the academic achievement of the students of each school district.
     (9) On or before June 30, 2013, the superintendent of public instruction shall begin presenting longitudinal data on academic achievement and shall develop plans for a measurement of growth for the statewide student assessment required by the board of public education.

     History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 418, L. 2011.