A. In developing and implementing a state student record system, as required in Subsection E of Section 18-200.1 of this title, and as needed to comply with the tracking and reporting requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), P.L. No. 114-95, as reauthorized by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015, the State Department of Education shall construct the system to contain the following elements and comply with the following standards and compliance capabilities:

1. Extensible Markup Language (XML), which defines common data formats used during communication between disparate systems;

2. Web services protocol developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, which enables systems that are physically separated but connected to the Internet to be combined to permit complex operations;

3. Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) version 1.5 specifications, or any updated versions of the specifications, which enable school district software management systems to communicate with each other. The student record system shall include, but not be limited to, the specifications for course identifiers, state standard formatting, content formatting, and assessment formatting specification;

4. United States Department of Education EDFacts data exchange guidelines with data elements capable of providing reporting on federal educational programs; and

5. Defined state data codes to ensure consistent reporting from school districts including, but not limited to, data codes for course identifiers, entries, gains, and losses. Current data codes for teacher certification and the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System shall be extended to match other defined data codes.

B. Any student information system and any instructional management system used by school districts in the state shall comply with the Extensible Markup Language (XML) standards and the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) version 1.5 specifications, or any updated versions of the specifications.

C. The State Department of Education shall have the authority to define requirements for the submission of data elements in compliance with the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) version 1.5 for the student information systems and instructional management systems used by school districts statewide in compliance with state and federal statutes.

Added by Laws 2003, c. 430, § 2, eff. July 1, 2003. Amended by Laws 2019, c. 486, § 1, eff. July 1, 2019.