279.60 - KINDERGARTEN ASSESSMENT -- ACCESS TO DATA -- REPORTS.
279.60 KINDERGARTEN ASSESSMENT -- ACCESS TO DATA --
REPORTS.
Each school district shall administer the dynamic indicators of
basic early literacy skills kindergarten benchmark assessment or
other kindergarten benchmark assessment adopted by the department of
education in consultation with the Iowa empowerment board to every
kindergarten student enrolled in the district not later than the date
specified in section 257.6, subsection 1. The school district shall
also collect information from each parent, guardian, or legal
custodian of a kindergarten student enrolled in the district,
including but not limited to whether the student attended preschool,
factors identified by the early care staff pursuant to section 28.3,
and other demographic factors. Each school district shall report the
results of the assessment and the preschool information collected to
the department of education in the manner prescribed by the
department not later than January 1 of that school year. The early
care staff designated pursuant to section 28.3 shall have access to
the raw data. The department shall review the information submitted
pursuant to this section and shall submit its findings and
recommendations annually in a report to the governor, the general
assembly, the Iowa empowerment board, and the community empowerment
area boards. Section History: Recent Form
2005 Acts, ch 148, §16; 2006 Acts, ch 1152, §37