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S. 2511119th CongressEducation
College Transparency Act
Sponsored by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) · 26 active : 13 Republicans, 13 Democrats
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 537.
Where it standsBefore the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govCollege Transparency Act
This bill requires the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to establish a secure and privacy-protected data system that contains information about postsecondary students.
Specifically, the data system must
evaluate student enrollment patterns, progression, completion, and postcollegiate outcomes, and higher education costs and financial aid;
provide complete and customizable information for students and families making decisions about postsecondary education;
reduce the requirements for reporting by institutions of higher education; and
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periodically match with other federal systems of data.
The bill also establishes a postsecondary student data system advisory committee.
The Department of Education (ED) and NCES must (1) provide dedicated and adequate staffing at ED to implement the bill's requirements, and (2) report to Congress on a quarterly basis regarding the progress of implementing the bill's requirements.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Academic performance and assessments
- Advisory bodies
- Census and government statistics
- Data collection, sharing, protection
- Government information and archives
- Higher education
- Labor market
- Student aid and college costs
- Student records
- Wages and earnings
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 44Middle 30–70
- 50Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
26 activeShow all 26 cosponsors
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Thomas Tillis
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
