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Educational data: district contract terms, notice of curriculum, testing or assessment technology provider contracts, and parent inspection of provider contracts
Minn. Stat. § 13.32, subdivision 13, paragraphs (g) to (i)
In force.
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a public educational agency or institution, include in each contract with a technology provider requirements to ensure appropriate security safeguards for educational data, including that the provider's employees or contractors have access to educational data only if authorized and only when access is necessary to fulfill their official duties (Minn. Stat. 13.32, subd. 13(g)).
- If you are a public educational agency or institution, within 30 days of the start of each school year give parents and students direct and timely notice, by United States mail, e-mail, or other direct form of communication, of any curriculum, testing, or assessment technology provider contract affecting a student's educational data (Minn. Stat. 13.32, subd. 13(h)).
- In that notice, identify each curriculum, testing, or assessment technology provider with access to educational data, identify the educational data affected, and include information about the contract inspection and contact information for a school department to which a parent or student may direct questions or concerns (Minn. Stat. 13.32, subd. 13(h)(1) to (3)).
- Give parents and students an opportunity to inspect a complete copy of any contract with a technology provider (Minn. Stat. 13.32, subd. 13(i)).
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If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Section 13.09(a) makes a person who willfully violates the provisions of chapter 13 guilty of a misdemeanor.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Paragraphs (g) to (i) of subdivision 13 require a public educational agency or institution to put security safeguards in each technology provider contract, give parents and students notice of technology provider contracts and to let them inspect a copy. No record, audit or demand for a record is named, and a notice to a parent is not a log. The subdivision contains no territorial test.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 13.32, subdivision 13, paragraph (g) requires a contract between a technology provider and a public educational agency or institution to include requirements to ensure appropriate security safeguards for educational data, including that the provider's employees or contractors have access to educational data only if authorized and only when access is necessary to fulfill their official duties.
Paragraph (h) requires a public educational agency or institution, within 30 days of the start of each school year, to give parents and students direct and timely notice of any curriculum, testing, or assessment technology provider contract affecting a student's educational data. The notice must identify each curriculum, testing, or assessment technology provider with access to educational data.
Paragraph (i) requires a public educational agency or institution to provide parents and students an opportunity to inspect a complete copy of any contract with a technology provider. A postsecondary institution is exempt from subdivisions 13 and 14. Section 13.09 makes a person who willfully violates the provisions of chapter 13 guilty of a misdemeanor.
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