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Authorizing Legislation
Senate Bill 1453 (Chapter 1002, Statutes of 2002) requires the development of the CALPADS to accomplish all of the following goals:
- To provide school districts and CDE access to data necessary to comply with federal reporting requirements delineated in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
- To provide a better means of evaluating educational progress and investments over time
- To provide LEAs information that can be used to improve pupil achievement
- To provide an efficient, flexible, and secure means of maintaining longitudinal statewide pupil-level data
In addition, SB 257 (Chapter 782, Statute of 2003) requires CDE to promote sound data practices with respect to pupil data systems and issues.
This legislation can be viewed at the California State Senate (Outside Source).
