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S. 2511119th Congress
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S 2511 would replace school-level college stats with a federal system tracking individual students' enrollment, debt, and earnings.
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S 2511 directs the National Center for Education Statistics to build a student-level data system, matching records with agencies like the IRS, Social Security, VA, and Census to track enrollment, debt, transfers, and post-graduation earnings and employment. It repeals the current law banning such a system and adds privacy protections, including bans on selling data, using it for law enforcement or a federal college ranking, plus an advisory committee and audit rules.
Millions of college and university students are affected, since schools that take part in federal financial aid programs must report the data.
The change would let researchers, policymakers, and families track outcomes across schools and programs, but it also expands government data-matching on individual students, raising privacy and implementation questions ahead of the four-year rollout.
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Right now: a Senate committee is reviewing it. If the House changes it, it goes back to the Senate before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.