(1) An LEA shall adopt policies to protect student data in accordance with this part and state board rule, taking into account the specific needs and priorities of the LEA.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 53E-9-303

  • Data governance plan: means an education entity's comprehensive plan for managing education data that:
         (6)(a) incorporates reasonable data industry best practices to maintain and protect student data and other education-related data;
         (6)(b) describes the role, responsibility, and authority of an education entity data governance staff member;
         (6)(c) provides for necessary technical assistance, training, support, and auditing;
         (6)(d) describes the process for sharing student data between an education entity and another person;
         (6)(e) describes the education entity's data expungement process, including how to respond to requests for expungement;
         (6)(f) describes the data breach response process; and
         (6)(g) is published annually and available on the education entity's website. See Utah Code 53E-9-301
  • LEA: means :
         (10)(a) a school district;
         (10)(b) a charter school; or
         (10)(c) the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. See Utah Code 53E-9-301
  • Metadata dictionary: means a record that:
         (11)(a) defines and discloses all personally identifiable student data collected and shared by the education entity;
         (11)(b) comprehensively lists all recipients with whom the education entity has shared personally identifiable student data, including:
              (11)(b)(i) the purpose for sharing the data with the recipient;
              (11)(b)(ii) the justification for sharing the data, including whether sharing the data was required by federal law, state law, or a local directive; and
              (11)(b)(iii) how sharing the data is permitted under federal or state law; and
         (11)(c) without disclosing personally identifiable student data, is displayed on the education entity's website. See Utah Code 53E-9-301
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • State board: means the State Board of Education. See Utah Code 53E-1-102
  • Student data: means information about a student at the individual student level. See Utah Code 53E-9-301
  • Student data manager: means :
         (18)(a) the state student data officer; or
         (18)(b) an individual designated as a student data manager by an education entity under Section 53E-9-303, who fulfills the duties described in Section 53E-9-308. See Utah Code 53E-9-301
(2)

     (2)(a) An LEA shall designate an individual to act as a student data manager to fulfill the responsibilities of a student data manager described in Section 53E-9-308.
     (2)(b) If possible, an LEA shall designate the LEA’s records officer as defined in Section 63G-2-103, as the student data manager.
(3) An LEA shall create and maintain an LEA:

     (3)(a) data governance plan; and
     (3)(b) metadata dictionary.
(4) An LEA shall establish an external research review process for a request for data for the purpose of external research or evaluation.