E Relating to education standards; modifying certain high school graduation standards; eliminating the requirement for student assessments under the profile of learning to be performance based, requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning after consultation with education Minnesota and superintendents to designate a uniform method for reporting student performance; specifying profile of learning required learning areas, requiring the commissioner to periodically review and report on the assessment process and student achievement and to annually make available to the public reports on the content standards offered at school sites and required for graduation; modifying certain requirements for implementation of the profile of learning; requiring high school student transcripts to account for work done in the content standards; requiring school districts to choose the methods used to assess student achievement, specifying certain options and prohibiting commissioner mandates; requiring the commissioner to establish and maintain a high standards tool library offering teachers examples of assessment tools and lesson plans, best practices methods, research on proven methods and examples of exemplar work aligned to the content standards; requiring the commissioner to grant a waiver to school districts voting to select fewer standards for graduation requirements than the state standards, requiring district waiver requests; providing for completion of content standards; specifying certain school district recordkeeping requirements for audit at the request of the commissioner; requiring individual scoring of students participating in group projects based on contribution to the project; prohibiting a requirement for school districts to adopt specific provisions of federal education programs; requiring the commissioner to establish an academic panel to examine, evaluate and sustain the rigor of the content standards contained in the graduation rule, specifying membership requirements; requiring the availability of third and fifth grade test results to districts for diagnostic purposes affecting student learning and district instruction and curriculum and for establishing educational accountability; requiring the commissioner to award grants to education Minnesota to provide for best practices professional development seminars for public school teachers during the summer of 1999; requiring the commissioner to amend certain rules for state graduation requirements by a certain date; repealing a certain provision providing for student lifework development plan and certain rules(ra, ja)