The Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act requires the Department of Education to collect and publish detailed information about teachers and principals working in public schools as part of its existing civil rights data collection efforts. Schools and school districts would need to report data on the number of full-time teachers and principals employed, their years of experience, teacher licensing and certification status, and subject area expertise in areas like math, science, and special education. All of this information would be broken down by race, ethnicity, and sex to identify potential disparities in the educator workforce. The Department would then prepare annual public reports with this data presented in accessible formats like graphs and percentages, while working with its privacy office to ensure individual teachers and principals cannot be identified. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to all future civil rights data collections conducted by the Department.
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