2006 Minnesota Statutes

120B.362 VALUE-ADDED ASSESSMENT PROGRAM.
(a) The commissioner of education must implement a value-added assessment program to
assist school districts, public schools, and charter schools in assessing and reporting individual
students' growth in academic achievement under section 120B.30, subdivision 1a. The program
must use assessments of individual students' academic achievement to make longitudinal
comparisons of each student's academic growth over time. School districts, public schools, and
charter schools may apply to the commissioner to participate in the initial trial program using a
form and in the manner the commissioner prescribes. The commissioner must select program
participants from urban, suburban, and rural areas throughout the state.
(b) The commissioner may issue a request for proposals to contract with an organization
that provides a value-added assessment model that reliably estimates school and school district
effects on students' academic achievement over time. The model the commissioner selects must
accommodate diverse data and must use each student's test data across grades. Data on individual
teachers generated under the model are personnel data under section 13.43.
(c) The contract under paragraph (b) must be consistent with the definition of "best value"
under section 16C.02, subdivision 4.
History: 1Sp2005 c 5 art 2 s 24