The Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act requires the Department of Education to expand its existing civil rights data collection to systematically track detailed information about teachers and principals in public schools. Specifically, schools and districts must report the number of teachers and principals employed, their years of experience broken down into specific categories, whether teachers meet state licensing requirements, and which teachers are certified in high-need subjects like math, science, special education, and English as a second language. All of this data must be broken down by race, ethnicity, and sex to reveal potential disparities in the educator workforce. The Department must then publish an accessible public report on its Office for Civil Rights website showing this information by state, along with the underlying data, while ensuring individual teacher and principal identities remain confidential. The new data collection requirements take effect with the next civil rights data collection cycle after the bill is enacted, with no specific funding amount mentioned in the legislation.
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