Parents' Bill of Rights: school district procedures informing parents of their rights, including the right to opt out of district data collection for the state longitudinal student data system

Section 2003 of Title 25, part of the Parents' Bill of Rights, requires the board of education of each school district, in consultation with parents, teachers and administrators, to develop and adopt a policy to promote the involvement of parents and guardians of children enrolled in the district's schools.

The policy must include procedures by which parents may learn about their parental rights and responsibilities under state law, among them the right to opt out of any data collection instrument at the district level that would capture data for inclusion in the state longitudinal student data system, except what is necessary and essential for establishing a student's public school record. The board may provide that information to parents in electronic form.

A parent asks for the information in writing from the school principal or the superintendent, who within ten days must either deliver it or give the parent a written explanation of the denial; a parent who is denied, or who has not received it within fifteen days, may take the request to the district board of education, which must formally consider it at its next scheduled public meeting at which it can be properly noticed. Section 2003 was added by Laws 2014, chapter 238, section 3, effective November 1, 2014.