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This bill establishes a comprehensive, secure, and privacy-protected postsecondary student data system to be developed and maintained by the Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics within four years of enactment. The system aims to accurately track student enrollment, progression, completion, and post-college outcomes, while providing transparent and customizable information for students and families and reducing reporting burdens on higher education institutions. The data system will include student-level data elements such as enrollment status, race, age, gender, program of study, and financial aid recipient status, while explicitly prohibiting the collection of sensitive personal information like health data, discipline records, and exact addresses. The bill requires periodic data matching with other federal agencies to assess student outcomes, creates a diverse advisory committee to guide the system's development, and mandates the creation of a user-friendly public website with aggregate, anonymized information about institutional performance. Importantly, the bill includes robust privacy protections, forbidding the sale of data, limiting its use for law enforcement or immigration purposes, and establishing strict penalties for unauthorized disclosure of personally identifiable information. The system is designed to be transparent, adaptable, and focused on providing meaningful educational insights while protecting individual student privacy.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4806/all-info