Minnesota Session Laws - 1992, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1992 

                        CHAPTER 496-S.F.No. 2556 
           An act relating to education; including in the PER 
          policy a procedure for parents to review the content 
          of instructional materials; entitling the PER report 
          the "Annual Report on Curriculum and Student 
          Performances"; including in the PER report information 
          about curriculum advisory committee membership; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 126.666, 
          subdivisions 1 and 4. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 126.666, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [ADOPTING POLICIES.] A school board shall 
adopt each year a written PER policy that includes the following:
    (1) district curriculum goals; 
    (2) learner outcomes for each subject area at each grade 
level that include the essential learner outcomes adopted by the 
state board under section 126.663, subdivision 2; 
    (3) a process for evaluating each student's progress toward 
attaining learner outcomes and for identifying strengths and 
weaknesses of the curriculum; 
    (4) a system for establishing a review cycle for all 
curriculum; 
    (5) curriculum and instruction improvement plans; and 
    (6) an instruction plan that includes education 
effectiveness processes developed according to section 121.608 
and integration of curriculum and technology; and 
    (7) a procedure for a parent, guardian, or an adult 
student, 18 years of age or older, to review the content of the 
instructional materials to be provided to a minor child or to an 
adult student and, if the parent, guardian, or adult student 
objects to the content, to make reasonable arrangements with 
school personnel for alternative instruction.  Alternative 
instruction may be provided by the parent, guardian, or adult 
student if the alternative instruction, if any, offered by the 
school board does not meet the concerns of the parent, guardian, 
or adult student.  The school board is not required to pay for 
the costs of alternative instruction provided by a parent, 
guardian, or adult student.  
    School personnel may not impose an academic or other 
penalty upon a student merely for arranging alternative 
instruction under clause (7).  School personnel may evaluate and 
assess the quality of the student's work. 
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 126.666, 
subdivision 4, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 4.  [REPORT.] (a) By October 1 of each year, the 
school board shall adopt, using state board standard reporting 
procedures, a report that includes the following:  
    (1) learner outcomes adopted for that year; 
    (2) results of local assessment data, and any additional 
test data; 
    (3) the annual school district improvement plans; and 
    (4) information about progress that has been made toward 
the improvement plans that were previously adopted by the board; 
and 
    (5) the procedure adopted under subdivision 1, clause (7). 
    The school board shall publish the report in the local 
newspaper with the largest circulation in the district or by 
mail.  The report shall be available for inspection by the 
public.  A copy of the report shall be sent to the commissioner 
of education by October 15 of each year.  
    (b) The title of the report shall contain the name and 
number of the school district and read "Annual Report on 
Curriculum and Student Performance."  The report must include at 
least the following information about curriculum advisory 
committee membership: 
    (1) the name of each committee member and the date when 
that member's term expires; 
    (2) the method and criteria the school board uses to select 
committee members; and 
    (3) the date by which a community resident must apply to 
next serve on the committee. 
    Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective for the 1992-1993 school year.  
Section 2 is effective June 1, 1992. 
    Presented to the governor April 16, 1992 
    Signed by the governor April 20, 1992, 4:39 p.m.