Statewide Longitudinal Student Database.

Existing law establishes a system of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, which maintains pupil data regarding demographic, program participation, enrollment, and statewide assessments for the public elementary and secondary education system. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to establish the Statewide Longitudinal Student Database to collect and store data regarding individual students as they matriculate from preschool through entry into the workforce. The bill would require the Office of Higher Education Coordination, Accountability, and Performance, proposed to be established by SB 3 of the 2019–20 Regular Session, to convene a review committee for purposes of advising the office on the establishment, implementation, funding, and ongoing administration of the database. The bill would require the office to review the committee's recommendations and develop a database plan that would include, among other things, requirements on state agencies, public schools, private institutions of higher education, and private schools to submit data. To the extent the requirement to submit data would impose additional data reporting requirements on public schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would exempt contracts entered into by the office for purposes of implementing the bill's provisions from provisions of the Government Code and Public Contract Code and from the review or approval of any division of the Department of General Services. Subject to an appropriation for implementation of the database in the annual Budget Act or another statute and the completion of specified requirements, the bill would require the office to develop and implement the database. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature that the development of the database be substantially completed on or before July 1, 2022. The bill would prohibit the office from implementing the database if there is a determination, after consultation with the review committee, that the office is unable to obtain necessary, reliable, and relevant data or protect individual privacy rights and confidentiality of the data. The bill would make implementation of its provisions contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes. The bill would make its operation contingent on the enactment of SB 3 of the 2019–20 Regular Session. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.