1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Student Data Counts Act of 2019”.
Student Data Counts Act of 2019
A BILL
To amend the Education Sciences and Reform Act of 2002 to include racial subgroups in IPEDS data, and for other purposes.
2. Inclusion of racial subgroups in IPEDS data
Section 153(a)(3) of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9543(a)(3)) is amended—
by striking “feasible, information” and inserting the following:
“(A) information”
by inserting “and” after the semicolon; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(B) information from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Survey or a successor system (whichever includes the most recent data), that is disaggregated by race in a manner that captures all the racial groups specified in the American Community Survey of the United States Census Bureau;”