E Modifying certain high school graduation requirements; modifying the requirement for school calendars to include additional days of student instruction, requiring instruction or staff development training relating to implementing preparatory and high school content standards; defining school site as a separate facility or a separate program within a facility recognized by the local school board as a school site for curriculum and assessment purposes; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of children, families and learning to develop and disseminate to school districts a uniform method for reporting student performance on the profile of learning; specifying the learning areas of the profile of learning; eliminating the annual reporting requirement of the commissioner relating to the status of graduation requirements implementation, requiring the commissioner to publish a report by school site, area learning center and charter school the required preparatory and high school content standards and the number of individual student waivers approved by the district, area learning center or charter school; requiring school districts to integrate required and elective content standards in the scope and sequence of the district curriculum and exempting districts from requirements to adopt specific provisions of the goals 2000 and the federal school to work programs; requiring and providing for annual school site determination of required content standards by school sites by majority vote of licensed teachers and administrators and school boards or charter school sponsors, requiring student completion of the state required content standards in cases of disagreement and site reporting to the commissioner of the content standards implementation schedule and specifying certain learning opportunities provision requirements of school districts; requiring student transcripts to record work completed in implemented content standards; eliminating performance package requirements, requiring district, area learning center and charter school selection of performance assessments with a grading system comparable to certain criteria, prohibiting the commissioner from mandating the use of certain assessment methods; providing for school district, area learning center or charter school waiver of the content standards for students choosing an equal or more rigorous course of study or satisfactorily completing approved post-secondary enrollment options courses or programs; requiring the board of regents of the university of Minnesota, the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) and the governing boards of Minnesota private colleges to annually determine and notify the commissioner of the courses offered under the PSEO program meeting the rigorous course requirements, list availability requirement; authorizing school boards to waive content standards for students entering the ninth grade before a certain school year under certain conditions; requiring the establishment of processes for student transfers; granting districts, area learning centers and charter schools flexibility relating to the completion of content standards; specifying certain records maintenance requirements for commissioner audit purposes; specifying certain scoring requirements and options, grade level of a student not to prohibit the student from receiving the highest state exemplar score upon completion of a content standard; requiring the commissioner to maintain a high standards tool library for teachers to use in assessing student achievement, requiring commissioner establishment of a variety of tools by a certain date and requiring the library to be interactive and to allow for submission of tools by teachers; requiring the commissioner to designate software packages for reporting student performance on the content standards, requiring the recordkeeping software to be capable of transferring student records between schools and school districts, requiring the commissioner to convene an advisory group to recommend recordkeeping practices under the graduation rule and to report on technology needs for efficient daily classroom recordkeeping and accountability reporting; 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 and duties, requiring biennial recommendations to the commissioner; modifying certain statewide testing requirements, authorizing school districts at the request of the parent or guardian and with recommendation of the teacher to offer the basic skills test beginning in grade and providing for dissemination of third and fifth grade test results; providing for school district determination of the meeting of local expectations of student achievement levels; requiring the commissioner by a certain date to establish a best practices network for the learning areas under the profile of learning, to report to the legislature by a certain later date on recommendations relating to graduation standards rules or realignment of standards for implementing a technical and vocational education learning area, to contract with an independent organization to evaluate the quality of the state standards as an integrated educational system and to make certain graduation rule amendments; repealing certain provisions providing for school district implementation of the profile of learning and for student maintenance of lifework development plans and certain rules (mk, ja)