Law / United States / 
Minnesota
Student surveys: district policies, parent notice, review and opt-out
In force.
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Disclosure, Consent
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a school district or charter school, develop and adopt, in consultation with parents, policies on conducting student surveys and on using and distributing personal information on students collected from the surveys (Minn. Stat. 121A.065(a)).
- Directly notify parents of those policies at the beginning of each school year and after making any substantive policy change (Minn. Stat. 121A.065(a)(1)).
- Tell parents at the beginning of the school year if you have identified specific or approximate dates for administering surveys, and give reasonable notice of planned surveys scheduled after the start of the school year (Minn. Stat. 121A.065(a)(2)).
- Give parents direct, timely notice, by United States mail, email, or other direct form of communication, when their students are scheduled to participate in a student survey, and give parents the opportunity to review the survey and to opt their students out of it (Minn. Stat. 121A.065(a)(3) and (4)).
- Do not impose an academic or other penalty upon a student who opts out of participating in a survey (Minn. Stat. 121A.065(b)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 121A.065 requires a district to adopt survey policies, notify parents, allow a survey to be reviewed and opted out of, and bar a penalty for opting out. No record, audit or demand for a record is named, and a notice to a parent is not a log. The section contains no territorial test.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 121A.065, paragraph (a) requires school districts and charter schools, in consultation with parents, to develop and adopt policies on conducting student surveys and using and distributing personal information on students collected from the surveys. Districts and charter schools must directly notify parents of those policies at the beginning of each school year and after making any substantive policy changes.
Districts and charter schools must give parents direct, timely notice when their students are scheduled to participate in a student survey, and give parents the opportunity to review the survey and to opt their students out of participating in the survey. Paragraph (b) bars imposing an academic or other penalty upon a student who opts out of participating in a survey.
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