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Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) Committee

During the 2007 legislative session, House Bill 1021 revised North Dakota Century Code 15.1-02-18 to establish this committee and identified the membership as follows:

The statewide longitudinal data system committee consists of the chancellor of the board of higher education or chancellor's designee, the superintendent of public instruction or superintendent of public instruction's designee, the chief information officer or chief information officer's designee, the director of the department of career and technical education or the director's designee, the director of job service North Dakota or the director's designee, the director of the department of commerce or the director's designee, the director of the department of human services or the director's designee, and one person appointed by the governor. The governor shall appoint the chair of the committee. The committee may appoint advisory committees that would serve in an advisory capacity to the committee.

The legislation gave the committee the following responsibilities:

  1. The committee shall plan and propose a longitudinal data system which:
    • Provides for dissemination of management information to stakeholders and partners of state education, training, and employment systems; and
    • Uses data from educational and workforce systems as central sources of longitudinal data.
  2. The committee shall recommend policies, procedures, and guidelines to protect the privacy and security of personal information as provided by state and federal law.
  3. The committee shall provide a report to the information technology committee, interim committee on education issues, and interim committee on economic development prior to the sixty-first legislative assembly on the status of the statewide longitudinal data system plan. The report shall include recommendations for further development, cost proposals, proposals for legislation, and data sharing governance, including recommendations concerning the long-term role and administration of the followup information in North Dakota for education and training program.

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