EF - INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES

Textbooks selected for use in the public schools shall be furnished without cost to students attending those schools.

Education Code 31.001

PARENTAL ACCESS

A parent is entitled to review all teaching materials, textbooks, and other teaching aids used in the classroom of the parent's child and to review each test administered to the child after the test is administered. The School shall make teaching materials and tests readily available for parental review. Each principal will specify reasonable hours for such review.

Education Code 26.006 (See FNG)

A parent is entitled to request that the School allow the student to take to the student's School residence or the student's home, if the student goes home during the school year, any textbook used by the student. Subject to the availability of a textbook, the School shall honor the request. A student who takes home a textbook must return the textbook to school at the beginning of the next school day if requested to do so by the student's teacher.

Education Code 26.006

PARENTAL INSPECTION

All instructional materials, including teacher's manuals, films, tapes or other supplementary material, that will be used in connection with any survey, analysis, or evaluation as part of any program funded in whole, or in part, by the U.S. Department of Education shall be available for inspection by the parents, or guardians, of the children.

20 U.S.C. 1232h(a)

STUDENT RIGHTS

No student shall be required, as part of any program funded in whole, or in part, by the U.S. Department of Education, to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation that reveals information concerning the following topics without the prior consent of the student (if the student is an adult or emancipated minor), or, in the case of an unemancipated minor, without the prior written consent of the parent. Topics covered by this provision are:

1. Political affiliations.
2. Mental and psychological problems potentially embarrassing to the student or his, or her, family.
3. Sex behavior and attitudes.
4. Illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating, and demeaning behavior.
5. Critical appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close family relationships.
6. Legally recognized privileged, or analogous, relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians, and ministers.
7. Religious practices, affiliations, or beliefs of the student or student's parent.
8. Income (other than that required by law to determine eligibility for participation in a program, or for receiving financial assistance under such program).

20 U.S.C. 1232h(b)

POLICIES

As a condition of receiving funds under any applicable program, the School shall develop and adopt policies (See TSBVI Board Policies FL, FNG, FFAA, CRD) in consultation with parents, pursuant to 20 U.S.C. 1232h(c)(1), regarding the following:

1. The parent's right to inspect a survey created by a third party before the survey is administered or distributed by the School to the student.
2. The School's arrangements to protect student privacy in the event a survey containing the items listed under STUDENT RIGHTS, above, is administered or distributed to a student.
3. The parent's right to inspect any instructional material used in the educational curriculum for the student.
4. The administration of physical examinations or screenings that the School may administer to the student;
5. The collection, disclosure, or use of personal information collected from students for the purpose of marketing or selling that information. This provision does not apply to use of personal information collected from students for the exclusive purpose of developing, evaluating, or providing educational products or services for or to students or educational institutions, such as recruiters, book clubs, curriculum and instructional materials used by schools, sale by students of products or services to raise funds for school-related or education-related activities, or student recognition programs.
6. The parent's right to inspect any instrument used in collection of personal information in item 5 above, before the instrument is administered.

PARENTAL NOTIFICATION

The School shall provide for reasonable notice of the adoption or continued use of TSBVI Board Policies FL, FNG, FFAA, CRD directly to the parents of the students enrolled in schools served by the School. The School shall:

1. Provide notice at least annually, at the beginning of the school year and within a reasonable time after any substantive change in the policies, and
2. Offer an opportunity for the parent to opt the student out of participation in an activity described below.

The School shall directly notify the parent of a student, at least annually at the beginning of the school year, of the specific or approximate dates during the school year when activities, described below, are scheduled or expected to be scheduled. The following activities require notification under this section:

1. Activities involving the collection, disclosure, or use of personal information collected from students for the purpose of marketing or for selling that information.
2. The administration of any survey containing one or more items described at STUDENT RIGHTS, above.
3. Any nonemergency, invasive physical examination or screening that is required as a condition of attendance, administered and scheduled by the school in advance, and not necessary to protect the immediate health and safety of the student or of other students.

'PERSONAL INFORMATION' DEFINED

The term "personal information" means individually identifiable information, including a student's:

1. First and last name;
2. Home or physical address, including street name and city or town;
3. Telephone number; or
4. Social Security identification number.

No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Sec. 1061, Pub. L. No. 107-110, 115 Stat. 2083 (2002) (to be codified at 20 U.S.C. 1232h[c])

Adopted: 9/29/95

Amended: 11/19/99, 5/28/03, 11/16/07

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