A comprehensive testing program is established and maintained in order to evaluate the total program of the school district as well as to provide better counseling service to the students. The district shall identify valid, bias-free student assessment procedures and the process for monitoring student progress.
The superintendent with assistance of the certified staff shall develop standards and procedures to evaluate the educational program and student progress within each area of instruction.
No student is required, as part of any applicable program, to submit to a survey, analysis or evaluation that 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;
- 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.
(April 20, 1981; June 20, 1994; December 19, 1994; July 7, 2003; July 9, 2012; January 19, 2015; October 21, 2019)