TESTING PROGRAM
A Comprehensive testing program shall be established and maintained to evaluate the education program of the school district and to assist in providing guidance or counseling services to students and their families.
No student shall be required, as part of a program funded by the United States Department of Education, to submit, without prior written consent from the students’ parent, to surveys, analysis or evaluation which reveals information concerning:
- political affiliations;
- mental and psychological problems potentially embarrassing to the student or the student’s family;
- sex behavior and attitudes;
- illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating and demeaning behavior;
- critical appraisals of other individuals with whom students have close family relationships;
- legally recognized, privileged and analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians and ministers; or
- religious practices, affiliations or beliefs of the student or student’s parent; or
- income, but not including income required by law to determine eligibility for participation in a program or for receiving financial assistance under such program.
It shall be the responsibility of the superintendent, in conjunction with the principal, to develop administrative regulations regarding this policy.
It shall be the responsibility of the board to review and approve the evaluation and testing program.
Legal References: Goals 2000: Educate America Act, Pub. L. No. 103-227, 108
Stat. 125 (1994)
20 U.S.C. § 1232h (1988).
Iowa Code §§ 280.3; 256B; 282.1, .3, .6 (1993)
281 I.A.C. 12.5 (13), .5(21).
Cross References: 505 Student Scholastic Achievement
506 Student Records
507 Student Health and Well-Being
Previously Code No. 605.2
Approved: May 12, 1986
Reviewed: March 11, 1996
March 20, 2000
September, 2006
December 17, 2012
Revised: October 10, 1994
February 17, 2003