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• Introduced by Sen. Eric Oemig, (D-Kirkland) (D) on February 9, 2009, establishes comprehensive education data improvement systems for financial, student, and educator data . Establishes a data governance group within the educational data center to assist in the design and implementation such systems.
  • Referred to the Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee on February 9, 2009.
    • Substitute offered in the Senate on February 19, 2009, to include additional educator, classroom, and student data in the data improvement system. Additional sorting categories for the cost of a education per student are added. It is clarified that it is the classroom teacher when analyzing the ratios on a per student/teacher basis. The OFM must seek federal funds to implement the bill. The substitute passed in the Senate by voice vote on February 19, 2009.
  • Referred to the Senate Ways & Means Committee on February 19, 2009.
    • Substitute offered in the Senate on March 2, 2009, to clarify the Legislature's intent that school districts collect and report new data elements only to the extent funds are available for this purpose. The substitute passed in the Senate by voice vote on March 2, 2009.
  • Referred to the Senate Rules Committee on March 2, 2009.
    • Amendment offered by Sen. Eric Oemig, (D-Kirkland) (D) on March 9, 2009, to clarify the requirement of data from school distircts.
• Passed in the Senate (35 to 13) on March 9, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the House on March 11, 2009.
  • Referred to the House Education Committee on March 11, 2009.
    • Amendment offered in the House on March 27, 2009, to remove the statement of legislative intent to have the Data Center and LEAP provide independent review and evaluation of the K-12 data system. The Governance Group is established in the OSPI, not in the Data Center in the Office of Financial Management. A requirement is removed for the Data Center to annually submit a list of data elements to the Governance Group and for the Governance Group, within 3 months, to return a feasibility analysis for obtaining the data. The Legislature intends that the K-12 data system serve various information needs, with the benefits of additional data weighed against the costs to school districts to collect it, and remain focused on improving education. Specificity is removed from the list of expected data elements in the K-12 data improvement system, such as data elements related to individual classrooms, a list of educator certification information, a list of assessments for which student data is expected, separate accounting of revenues and courses by fund source, and a non-identifiable copy of data updated quarterly and made available to the public. An expectation is added for student data sufficiently disaggregated to monitor the achievement gap. Specificity is also reduced regarding data governance issues and operating rules. A requirement is removed for the OSPI, to the extent data is available, to post reports on the Internet including spending per student and by student calculated according to a specified algorithm; improvement in assessments by scale score; and other specified items.
  • Referred to the House Ways & Means Committee on March 30, 2009.
  • Referred to the House Rules Committee on April 6, 2009.