Military and Educational Data Integration Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Military and Educational Data Integration Act creates a data-sharing process between the Secretaries concerned and state educational agencies. Within 18 months, the military departments, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, state educational agencies, local educational agencies, and student data and privacy experts, must enable a state educational agency to access data about Armed Forces members who graduated high school in that state and integrate that data into the state's longitudinal data system or another state data system. The data may include highest education attained, postsecondary institution name and location, high school name and location, Armed Forces Qualification Test score, date joined, and other service-related information. The purpose is to let states understand military enlistment and education outcomes for their graduates while requiring privacy-sensitive design.
Who Benefits and How
State educational agencies benefit because they can connect military service and education outcomes to high school graduate data. Local educational agencies benefit from better information about how graduates perform in Armed Forces pathways. Military recruiting analysts benefit if integrated data helps evaluate education pipelines and enlistment outcomes. Students considering military service benefit indirectly if states use outcome data to improve counseling and career pathways.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Military departments must build a data-sharing process within 18 months and coordinate with education agencies. State data system administrators must integrate military data into longitudinal or alternate state systems. Privacy officers must protect sensitive education, test-score, and service information in cross-agency data flows. The Department of Education must consult on data governance, access, and privacy safeguards.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Secretaries concerned to establish a military-education data-sharing process within 18 months.
- Authorizes state educational agencies to access Armed Forces member data for graduates from their states.
- Permits integration of military data into statewide longitudinal data systems or alternate state systems.
- Requires consultation with Education Department officials, state agencies, local agencies, and privacy experts.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the military departments to create, within 18 months and in consultation with education agencies and privacy experts, a process for sharing certain Armed Forces member education and service data with state longitudinal education data systems.
Key Policy Areas
Military, Education Data, Privacy
Primary Purpose
Requires the military departments to create, within 18 months and in consultation with education agencies and privacy experts, a process for sharing certain Armed Forces member education and service data with state longitudinal education data systems.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- State educational agencies
- Local educational agencies
- Military recruiting analysts
- Military-bound students
Identified Costs
- Military departments
- State data administrators
- Privacy officers
- Department of Education
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Lee of Nevada (for herself, Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Bergman, …
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
State data administrators, State educational agencies
Military departments, Military recruiting analysts
Positive-direction: Military recruiting analysts
Negative-direction: Military departments
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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