BILL NUMBER: AB 2366	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Portantino

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2008

   An act relating to pupil data.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2366, as introduced, Portantino. Pupil data: workforce
outcomes.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Education to
contract for the development of proposals to provide for the
retention and analysis of longitudinal pupil achievement data to be
known as the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System.
The system is required to be used, among other ways, to provide a
better means of evaluating educational progress and investments over
time, to provide local educational agencies information that can be
used to improve pupil achievement, and to provide an efficient,
flexible, and secure means of maintaining longitudinal statewide
pupil level data. The system is required to have the ability to
provide data to the state and local educational agencies upon their
request.
   A local educational agency is required to retain individual pupil
records including, among other information, all demographic data
collected from the STAR Program test, high school exit examination,
and English language development tests, pupil achievement data from
those assessments, and a unique pupil identification number.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to require the department to link the California
Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System to the workforce data
system maintained by the Employment Development Department in order
to track pupils after they leave the public elementary and secondary
school system.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to require the State Department of Education to link the
California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System to the
workforce data system maintained by the Employment Development
Department in order to track pupils after they leave the public
elementary and secondary school system.