Sec. 124. Review of current data collection and feasibility study of improved data collection
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Part C of title I ( 20 U.S.C. 1015 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of the PROSPER Act , the Secretary shall, in order to help improve the information available to students and families and to eliminate significant and burdensome data collection requirements placed on institutions under this Act— complete a review of all data reporting requirements on institutions under this Act; determine which requirements are duplicative or no longer necessary to provide meaningful information for compliance, accountability, or transparency in decision making; and examine the best way to collect data that includes all students from institutions that will— eliminate or reduce the burden and duplication of data reporting; and capture the data necessary to ensure compliance, accountability, and transparency in decision making which shall include, at a minimum— enrollment; retention; transfer; completion; and post-collegiate earnings; and implement the changes necessary to improve the data reporting process for institutions, and submit a report to the authorizing committees on any legislative changes necessary to make such improvements.
In conducting the review under subsection (a)(1), the Secretary shall consult with— all applicable offices within the Department to ensure the review captures all data reporting requirements under this Act; and relevant stakeholders, including students, parents, institutions of higher education, and privacy experts. In examining the best way to collect data under subsection (a)(3), the Secretary shall explore the feasibility of working with the National Student Clearinghouse to establish a third-party method to collect and produce institution and program-level analysis of the data determined necessary to report, and how such data reported to the clearinghouse could be secured, while considering the following:
Whether data reported to the clearinghouse can accurately reflect institutional and program-level enrollment, retention, transfer, and completion rates. How much duplication of reporting can be eliminated and if such reporting can replace the reporting to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), including whether the data quality will be maintained or improved from the current data provided to the Department through IPEDS. Whether such reporting to the clearinghouse can protect the confidentiality of the reported data, while providing more accurate institutional performance measures.
Whether such reporting can be made compatible with systems that include post-graduation outcomes including employment and earnings data. Whether the use of the clearinghouse for such data reporting will change the current interaction between institutions and the clearinghouse. Whether the clearinghouse can meet the requirements of such reporting without transferring any disaggregated data that would be personally identifiable to the Department of Education. Whether the clearinghouse can ensure the Department of Education would never have access to any health data, student discipline records or data, elementary and secondary education data, or information relating to citizenship or national origin status, course grades, individual postsecondary entrance examination results, political affiliation, or religion, as a result of producing information for program level analysis of the data received from institutions of higher education.
Whether the clearinghouse can provide the analysis under this subsection without maintaining or transferring, publishing, or submitting any data containing the information described in paragraph
(7)to any entity, including any Federal or State agency. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of the PROSPER Act , the Secretary shall submit to the authorizing committees a report on the Secretary’s progress in carrying out this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the development of a nationwide database of personally identifiable information on individuals involved in studies or other collections of data under this Act. .
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