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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="4-138" title_number="4" title_name="Local School Administration" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="County Boards of Education">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Before releasing to the public any data received from a county board that the Department has synthesized or compiled, the Department shall send the synthesized or compiled data back to the county board for verification.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The county board shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Verify any data for the local school system that will be released to the public; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Send any school–level data to the appropriate school for verification.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Within 7 business days after data is returned to a school for verification:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A school administrator shall verify any data for the school that will be released to the public; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The school principal shall certify the school administrator’s verification.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>If a school or county board discovers a suspected error during the data verification process, the county board shall verify the data for each school in the county.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Department shall develop and maintain a secure online platform for school administrators to use in analyzing and verifying data in accordance with subsection (a) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A school shall notify a county board of any suspected error in data released to the public.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A county board shall notify the Office of Education Accountability within the Department of any suspected error in data for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The local school system; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A school in the local school system.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Office of Education Accountability shall review the data for errors and, if necessary, withdraw the publication to the extent possible.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Before the Department or a county board releases to the public any corrected data that was the subject of a review under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, the school or county board shall repeat the verification process under subsection (a) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
