Mississippi House Passes Bill To Track Children (From birth to workforce)

The Mississippi House has passed H.B. 608 providing for the establishment of a longitudinal data system to track education and student outcomes in the workforce which will require a multi-agency database. According to the PPJ Gazette for Feb. 21, this means tracking Mississippians from cradle to grave — almost. Under the bill, several Mississippi state agencies will join in an interagency cooperation to track children from birth to workforce. The multiple databases will be combined into one database making information available to interested parties. Neither the legislation nor the Gazette article identified the “interested parties.”