STRATEGIC PLAN FOR UNIFIED WORKFORCE DATA REPOSITORY

(a) The coordinating board shall develop a strategic plan for the operation of a unified repository for education and workforce data. In developing the plan, the coordinating board shall solicit input from the agency, the commission, and relevant stakeholders. (b) The plan developed under Subsection (a) must include recommendations for: (1) automatically matching records of the agency, coordinating board, and commission at the student level on a timely basis; (2) creating publicly available tools and resources regarding data on the outcomes of participants in career education and training programs, including graduation rates, student debt, employment status and industry of employment, and earnings over time, disaggregated to the extent practicable by income, race, ethnicity, and gender; (3) making timely student data available to authorized entities to support higher education and workforce application, entry, and success; and (4) creating and supporting a secure portal through which authorized personnel of approved entities can view and analyze comprehensive longitudinal and the most currently available matched data related to the progress toward meeting state workforce needs.