BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: June 21, 2006
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Jackie Goldberg, Chair
SB 1614 (Simitian) - As Amended: May 3, 2006
SENATE VOTE : 24-14
SUBJECT : Teacher identification number.
SUMMARY : Requires the development of a teacher data system to
serve as a central state repository of information on the
teacher workforce to inform policy, identify trends, and
identify future teacher workforce needs. Specifically, this
bill :
1)Makes findings and declarations regarding the need for
accurate teacher information service in regard to recruitment,
movement, professional development, departure and retirement
in a central data base.
2)Expresses Legislative intent that this be accomplished through
the establishment of a comprehensive state education data
information system in the State Department of Education (SDE).
3)Specifies that the existing California Education Information
System (CEIS) include:
a) The California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data
System (CALPADS) which maintains pupil data, regarding
demographics, program participation, enrollment, and
statewide assessments in addition to data gathered through
the California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS)
through the Professional Assignment Information Form
prepared by the SDE and filled out each year at every
public school; and
b) The California Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data
Education System (CALTIDES) to enable the analysis of
workforce trends, including mobility, retention, attrition,
evaluation of teacher preparation and professional
development programs, and monitoring of teacher
assignments as required by the federal No Child Left Behind
Act of 2001 (NCLB) by consolidating data that is already
collected through a variety of data systems by state
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agencies and county offices of education, as well as data
collected by SDE.
4)Requires the SDE and California Commission on Teacher
Credentialing (CCTC) to contract for the development of
CALTIDES, based on the findings of a teacher data feasibility
study conducted pursuant to Item 6110-001-0890 of Section 2.00
of the Budget Act of 2005 (Chapter 38 of the Statutes of
2005).
5)Requires the CCTC to establish nonpersonally identifiable
teacher identification numbers for each person authorized to
teach in the state.
6)Permits public disclosure of this number with information
regarding credentials, permits, or other documents the CCTC
issues.
7)Prohibits use of data in either CALPADS of CALTIDES for
purposes of pay, promotion, sanction, or personnel evaluation
of an individual teacher or groups of teachers, or of
employment decisions related to individual teachers.
8)Requires CALTIDES to include all of the following information:
a) Age profiles of teachers in the workforce;
b) Projections of retirements over the next ten years
throughout the state;
c) Identification of severe shortages of teachers in
specific subject matter areas;
d) Geographical distribution of teachers by credential
type; and
e) Present patterns of in-service education for teachers.
9)Requires that the system shall:
a) Utilize and maximize existing databases;
b) Maintain longitudinally linked data without including
names of teachers; and
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c) Comply with all state and federal confidentiality and
privacy laws.
10)Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to
convene a working group to provide advice and guidance on the
development of the CALTIDES; specifies that the group should
include representatives of the CCTC, the Department of
Finance, the Secretary for Education, the Legislative
Analyst's Office, the Employment Development Department, and
representatives of local education agencies, postsecondary
institutions, researchers, teachers, administrators, and
parents.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Establishes CALPADS to track student data longitudinally.
2)Permits the CCTC to disclose information on teachers regarding
credentials, certificates, permits, or other documents that it
issues and prohibits the CCTC from disclosing any other
information except by court order.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, the SDE Budget Change Proposal for the CLTIDES
estimates one time first year costs of $468,000 and one time
vendor costs of $678,000, for a total of $1,146,000. The SDE
estimated ongoing costs of $1,132,871 in 2009-10, $2,013,780 in
2010-11, and $1,945,796 in 2011-12. There are one time data
center services ($389,577) and software purchases ($422,200) in
2008-09.
COMMENTS : AB 1213 (Wyland) of 2005 which failed in the
Assembly Education Committee required the SPI to adopt a unique
teacher identifier and to preserve student and teacher
confidentiality.
This bill, by allowing the CCTC to disclose the teacher
identification number, has the potential to disclose unknown
amounts of personal information in the CALTIDES data base to the
public.
In Strengthening California's Teacher Information System, the
Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning states: "In
developing a comprehensive data system, policy-makers will need
to consider several additional issues. First, a new system will
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need to include strong safeguards to keep any unique identifier
out of the public domain and protect the identity of individual
teachers." This bill makes the identifiers open to the public.
Staff recommendation : This bill should delete the amendment
that allows the CCTC to release the unique teacher identifier to
the public. The author has agreed to this amendment.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research Center
California Teachers Association
Ed Voice
Pacific Institute for Community Organizations
Public Advocates, Inc.
Springboard Schools
Stanford University School of Education
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Dee Brennick / ED. / (916) 319-2087