Title 30, Education and Culture

(1) The Department of Early Learning and Care, in coordination with the Early Learning Council and in collaboration with the Educator Advancement Council created by ORS 342.940, shall establish and implement policies and practices to achieve vigorous and comprehensive early child…

Subject to the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: (1) The district school board of any school district in which there are resident children who are three years of age or older but who have not attained compulsory attendance age and who are not enrolled in a kin…

(1) The district school board of every school district operating any elementary schools may establish a child development specialist program. (2) If a district school board establishes a child development specialist program, the school district must meet the following requirement…

(1) The State Board of Education by rule shall establish guidelines for implementation of ORS 329.255, including but not limited to qualifications for child development specialists and procedures for community coordination of efforts. Such qualifications and procedures shall not …

(1) The Department of Education shall prepare operating guides for child development programs and for student-parent programs applicable to programs under this section that are consistent with requirements imposed by the State Board of Education. (2) The Department of Education s…

As used in ORS 329.395 to 329.425: (1) “Child development program” means an educational program funded by ORS 329.395 to 329.425 that conforms to standards adopted by the State Board of Education and that consists of an education component and a child care component. (2) “Teenage…

(1) The Department of Education shall prepare operating guides for child development programs and for teenage parent programs applicable to programs under ORS 329.395 to 329.425 that are consistent with requirements imposed by the State Board of Education. (2) The department shal…

(1) An approved school district child development program shall be entitled to receive a grant not to exceed $50,000. (2) An approved school district teenage parent program shall be entitled to receive a grant not to exceed $25,000. (3) A district may receive grants under both su…

(1)(a) At or before grade 12, a school district or public charter school shall award a high school diploma to a student who completes the requirements established by subsection (2) of this section. (b) A school district or public charter school shall award a modified diploma to a…

(1) Except as provided by subsection (2) of this section, a school district employee or volunteer may not post, publish or otherwise make publicly available in a nonsecure setting any personally identifiable information in relation to the specific or comparative results of a perf…

(1) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Student Assessment Bill of Rights. (2) As used in this section: (a) “Adult student” means a student of a public school or a public charter school who is 18 years of age or older or who is emancipated pursuant to ORS 419B.550…

(1) As allowed by federal law, the Department of Education shall ensure that standardized summative assessments are administered in the schools of this state to the minimum extent practicable while still appropriately and effectively assessing the academic achievement of the stud…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Content-based assessment” means testing of the understanding of a student of a predetermined body of knowledge. (b) “Criterion-referenced assessment” means testing of the knowledge or ability of a student with respect to some standard. (c) “Perfo…

The State Board of Education shall adopt guidelines for the best practices of administering statewide assessments of students. The guidelines must provide that a student who is in any grade from kindergarten through grade eight and who has met or exceeded state standards on a tes…

(1) The Department of Education shall contract with a nonprofit entity to administer a nationally normed assessment, in collaboration with the department, to all students in grade 10 who are enrolled in a public school. The purpose of the assessment is to predict the success of s…

(1) Within the State of Oregon’s kindergarten through grade 12 education system, proficiency for students in American Sign Language shall be in accordance with rules adopted by the State Board of Education pursuant to ORS chapter 329 and any other applicable state or federal law.…

(1) The Department of Education shall develop academic content standards for Oregon Studies and shall prepare materials to support teacher training and classroom instruction in Oregon Studies. (2) In the development of the academic content standards in Oregon Studies and in the p…

(1) The Department of Education shall: (a) Develop a curriculum relating to the Native American experience in Oregon and make the curriculum available to school districts; and (b) Provide professional development to teachers and administrators relating to the curriculum. (2) The …

(1) School districts must provide instruction about the Holocaust and genocide. (2) Instruction required under this section must be designed to: (a) Prepare students to confront the immorality of the Holocaust, genocide and other acts of mass violence and to reflect on the causes…

(1)(a) Every public school student in kindergarten through grade five, and every public school student in grade six at a school that teaches kindergarten through grade six, shall participate in physical education for the entire school year for at least 150 minutes during each sch…

(1) The Department of Education shall collect data from school districts on: (a) The number of minutes of physical education that are provided to students in kindergarten through grade eight in each public school within the district, as calculated on a weekly basis or an average …

Prior to February 1 of each odd-numbered year, the Department of Education shall report to the Legislative Assembly on the data collected under ORS 329.498 for the prior two school years. [2007 c.839 §2] Note: See note under 329.498.

(1) The Department of Education shall award grants to school districts and public charter schools for the purpose of meeting the physical education requirements of ORS 329.496. (2) A district or school that receives a grant may use the grant to: (a) Hire teachers who specialize i…

(1) For the purpose of implementing programs that link physical activity and academic achievement, the Department of Education shall, to the extent that funding and personnel are available to the department: (a) Seek public and private funding for programs that link physical acti…

(1) Each school district must provide a coordinated comprehensive school counseling program to support the academic, career, personal and social development of each student and to develop the sense of community involvement for each student. (2) A coordinated comprehensive program…

(1) Nothing in this section shall interfere with the duties, responsibilities and rights of duly elected school district boards. There shall be established at each school a 21st Century Schools Council. The duties of a 21st Century Schools Council shall include but not be limited…

(1) Nothing in this section shall interfere with the duties, responsibilities and rights of duly elected school district boards. There shall be established at each school district an educational equity advisory committee. (2)(a) The duties of an educational equity advisory commit…

For the purpose of federal loan forgiveness programs offered to teachers, the type of school where a teacher teaches shall be determined as follows: (1) The school shall be considered a secondary school if the school offers instruction in: (a) Grades 6 through 12, or any part the…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Education employer” means a public charter school, a school district, a community college operated under ORS chapter 341, a public university listed in ORS 352.002, a tribal college or university, as defined in 20 U.S.C. 1059c(b)(3), as in effect…

(1) A community college operated under ORS chapter 341 or a public university listed in ORS 352.002 that certifies hours worked by a faculty member who teaches for purposes of the public service loan forgiveness program defined in ORS 329.756 must calculate the full-time equivale…

As used in ORS 329.788 to 329.820: (1) “Beginning administrator” means a principal or superintendent who: (a) Possesses an administrative license issued by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission; (b) Is employed as a principal or superintendent by a school district; and (…

The Legislative Assembly finds that: (1) The quality of teaching and administration in the public schools is of vital importance to the future of this state; (2) This state has a special interest in ensuring that the induction of beginning teachers and administrators into their p…

(1) The Educator Advancement Council shall establish a beginning teacher and administrator mentorship program to provide eligible beginning teachers and administrators in this state with a continued and sustained mentorship program from a formally assigned mentor. (2) Any school …

(1) Each school district or educator network that wishes to participate in the beginning teacher and administrator mentorship program shall submit a formal application to the Educator Advancement Council. The application shall include: (a) A description of the priorities to be ad…

(1) Subject to ORS 291.232 to 291.260, the Educator Advancement Council shall distribute grants-in-aid to qualifying school districts or educator networks to offset the costs of beginning teacher and administrator mentorship programs. A qualifying district or educator network sha…

(1) After consulting with representatives of teachers, administrators, school boards, schools of education, the public universities listed in ORS 352.002 and such others as it considers appropriate, the Educator Advancement Council shall approve training for mentors and beginning…

(1) Based on the requirements of ORS 329.788 to 329.820, the selection, nature and extent of duties of mentors shall be determined: (a) By the school district that is the employer of the teacher or administrator and of the mentor; (b) Jointly by the school district that is the em…

(1) The Educator Advancement Council shall be responsible for the regular and ongoing evaluation of implementation and administration of programs under ORS 329.788 to 329.820 and may contract for such evaluation. The council may not expend in a biennium more than 2.5 percent of t…

(1) The Department of Education shall administer an educator professional development program that provides statewide collaborative leadership in educator professional development for prekindergarten through post-secondary education and that emphasizes school improvement. The dep…

It shall be the policy of the State of Oregon to promote and encourage successful and innovative schools. Success shall be determined by establishing standards of improvement in student learning and measuring each school’s performance in meeting those standards. Schools that meet…

(1) The State Board of Education shall establish a system of determining successful schools and dispensing appropriate incentive rewards to those schools. The system shall be based on a school being the measurement unit to determine success. School success shall be determined by …

(1) The School District Collaboration Grant Program is established to provide funding for school districts or educator networks established under ORS 342.943 to improve student achievement through the voluntary collaboration of teachers and administrators to design and implement …

The School District Collaboration Grant Account is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the School District Collaboration Grant Account shall be credited to the account. Moneys in the School District Collaboration Gran…

(1) For the purposes of this section, “plan student” means a student enrolled in early childhood through post-secondary education who: (a) Is Black or African-American; and (b) Has experienced disproportionate results in education due to historical practices, as identified by the…

(1) As used in this section, “plan student” means a student enrolled in early childhood through post-secondary education who: (a) Is an American Indian or Alaska Native; and (b) Has experienced disproportionate results in education due to historical practices, as identified by th…

(1) As used in this section, “plan student” means a student enrolled in early childhood through post-secondary education who: (a) Is Latino or Hispanic, including individuals of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, South American, Central American or Spanish descent; and (b) Has experie…

(1) As used in this section, “plan student” means a student enrolled in early childhood through post-secondary education who: (a) Is an asylum seeker, a refugee or any other immigrant, regardless of status and as identified by the State Board of Education by rule; and (b) Has exp…

(1) As used in this section, “plan student” means a student enrolled in early childhood through post-secondary education who: (a) May be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit, intersex, asexual, nonbinary or another minority gender identity or sexual orientation;…

(1) As used in this section, “plan student” means a student enrolled in early childhood through post-secondary education who: (a) Is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander; and (b) Has experienced disproportionate results in education due to historical practices, as identified by th…

(1) The Education and Workforce Policy Advisor, in consultation with the Department of Education, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, the Bureau of Labor and Industries, the Oregon Business Development Department and the Department of Human Services, shall propose polic…