1. a. A school district shall annually submit to the Commissioner of Education, no later than October 15, information on teaching positions in the current school year, including the number of vacant teaching positions the number of new teaching positions, the number of teaching positions that were eliminated, and the anticipated number of teacher retirements. The information shall be submitted in a manner to be prescribed by the commissioner.
b. The Executive Leadership Council of the New Jersey Education to Earnings Data System shall define the vacancy data elements to be submitted by school districts pursuant to subsection a. of this section.