Arizona Laws 15-1042. Student level data; timeline for submittal; confidentiality; definition
A. The department of education shall notify school districts, career technical education districts and charter schools of electronic data submission procedures and shall distribute a list of the specific student level data elements, including the statutory or regulatory reference for each data element, that school districts, career technical education districts and charter schools are required to submit.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 15-1042
- Average daily membership: means the total enrollment of fractional students and full-time students, minus withdrawals, of each school day through the first one hundred days or two hundred days in session, as applicable, for the current year. See Arizona Laws 15-901
- Charter school: means a public school established by contract with the state board of education, the state board for charter schools, a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents, a community college district or a group of community college districts pursuant to article 8 of this chapter to provide learning that will improve pupil achievement. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Parent: means the natural or adoptive parent of a child or a person who has custody of a child. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- School district: means a political subdivision of this state with geographic boundaries organized for the purpose of the administration, support and maintenance of the public schools or an accommodation school. See Arizona Laws 15-101
B. Each school district, career technical education district and charter school shall submit electronic data on a school-by-school basis, including student level data, to the department of education in order for the school district, career technical education district or charter school to receive monies for the cost of educating students pursuant to this title.
C. The department of education shall grant a school district, career technical education district or charter school an extension to the deadline to submit student level data or may provide for an alternative method to submit student level data if the school district, career technical education district or charter school proves that good cause exists for the extension, and the school district, career technical education district or charter school shall continue to receive monies for the cost of educating students pursuant to this title. The request for an extension of the deadline to submit student level data pursuant to this subsection shall include a justification for the extension and the status of current efforts toward complying with the submission of student level data.
D. A pupil or the parent or guardian of a pupil shall not be required to submit data that does not relate to the provision of educational services or assistance to the pupil.
E. Unless otherwise prescribed, school districts, career technical education districts and charter schools shall begin to report new data elements on July 1 of the year that follows the effective date of the law that requires the collection of the data.
F. Student level data items submitted to the department of education by school districts, career technical education districts and charter schools pursuant to this section shall not be used to adjust funding levels or calculate the average daily membership for the purpose of funding school districts at any time other than the fortieth, one hundredth and two hundredth days of the school year.
G. A school district, career technical education district or charter school is not required to submit student level data to the department of education more often than once every twenty school days.
H. Notwithstanding subsection J of this section, the student level data shall include reasons for the withdrawal if reasons are provided by the withdrawing pupil or the pupil’s parent or guardian. For the purposes of this subsection, the department of education shall include in the specific student level data elements that school districts, career technical education districts and charter schools are required to submit data relating to students who withdraw from school because the student is pregnant or because the student is the biological parent of a child.
I. All student level data collected pursuant to this section is confidential and is not a public record. The data collected may be used for aggregate research and reporting and for providing access of student level data to school districts, career technical education districts, charter schools, community colleges and universities under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents.
J. For the purposes of this section, "student level data" means all data elements that are compiled and submitted for each student in this state and that are necessary to complete the statutory requirements of the department of education and the state board of education relating to calculating funding for public education, determining student academic progress as measured by student testing programs in this state, state and federal reporting requirements and other duties prescribed to the department of education or the state board of education by law. Student level data does not include data elements related to student behavior, discipline, criminal history, medical history, religious affiliation, personal physical descriptors or family information not authorized by the parent or guardian of the pupil or otherwise required by law.