§ 3-80 — Remediation data sharing agreement

(a) Beginning January 1, 2024, a community college district, upon a request from the school district of a high school located within the boundaries of the community college district, shall provide individualized disaggregated data on the enrollment of students in community college remediation courses from the most recently completed academic year. A signed remediation data sharing agreement between the school district and the community college district must be entered into before sharing remediation data. (b) The remediation data sharing agreement shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) The agreement shall require that the data be individualized by student and that each student record be identified with the student's State identification number and last previous high school within the school district, as provided by the school district. (2) The agreement shall provide that each student record include, at a minimum, any course codes, the course names or titles, and the academic department for any courses that are in the department or subject area of mathematics, reading, English, or communications or any other course that is designated as remedial. (3) The agreement shall provide that each student record include, at a minimum, course codes, course names or titles, and the academic department for any courses in any department or subject area in which the student is enrolled for a given term at the community college that are noncredit-bearing courses. (4) The agreement shall specify the format and method by which the data will be shared with the school district. (5) The agreement shall provide a timeline for which the required data shall be provided to the school district by the community college district, which must be at least annually and must be within a reasonable amount of time following the end of the academic year. (6) The agreement shall provide that the data may not be used in the evaluation of licensed educators. (c) If, within 90 calendar days after the school district's initial request to enter into a remediation data sharing agreement with the community college district under this Section, the school district and the community college district do not reach an agreement on all of the provisions of a remediation data sharing agreement, then the school district and community college district shall jointly implement the provisions of the model remediation data sharing agreement developed under subsection (d) for those provisions for which an agreement could not be reached and shall jointly implement the remaining provisions for which agreement could be reached. A community college district may combine its negotiations with multiple school districts to establish one uniform remediation data sharing agreement to use with all of the school districts with high schools located within the boundaries of the community college district or may negotiate individual remediation data sharing agreements with school districts. (d) The Illinois Community College Board and the State Board of Education shall develop a model remediation data sharing agreement that may be used by school districts and community college districts under this Section. The model remediation data sharing agreement shall address all of the matters set forth in subsection (b) and shall be completed by January 1, 2024. (e) The sharing of data under this Section must be in accordance with the requirements of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. Nothing in this Section supersedes the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 or rules adopted pursuant to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 or any federal or State laws or rules governing student privacy rights.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 103-401, eff. 7-28-23.)