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Alexandria board debates state Minnesota Student Survey, directs staff to craft district questionnaire
Summary
Board members debated whether to administer the statewide Minnesota Student Survey and moved to commission a district-specific survey; a motion to skip the state instrument was made and seconded and an amendment on broader local control of assessments was proposed but not decided in the transcript.
At a meeting of the Alexandria Public School District board, a motion was made to not administer the statewide Minnesota Student Survey this year and to direct district administrators to create a district-specific questionnaire instead.
Board members debating the measure said the statewide survey — which the board heard is offered every three years — provides data used by partners such as Horizon Public Health and by grant programs, but they raised concerns about the state instrument's fixed questions and about specific items some members called potentially harmful to vulnerable students.
The motion, introduced by a board member identified in the transcript as the mover, said: "I'd like to move that we do not administer the Minnesota student survey for this school year and that we direct our administration to put together a survey that's specific for our school district to use." A second board member promptly seconded the…
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