Committee advances bill to update student data sharing for state‑managed information system

Mar 5, 2025

Witnesses told the Senate Education Committee that House Bill 1357 updates state law to reflect migration to a single, state‑managed student information system and requires district‑level data‑sharing agreements with the Department of Public Instruction that comply with federal privacy law.

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Representative Desiree Morton presented House Bill 1357, which updates statutory language governing student data sharing to reflect a planned migration to a single state instance of a student information system managed by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Morton said the bill requires school boards to execute a data‑sharing agreement with DPI before student data is shared with state entities and that the agreements must comply with federal and state privacy laws.

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