Pupils: privacy of pupil records: standardized test scores and grades.

Existing law establishes the public school system in this state, pursuant to which school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools provide educational services to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at elementary and secondary schools throughout the state. Existing law generally requires school districts, as defined to also include county offices of education and charter schools, to establish, maintain, and destroy pupil records according to regulations adopted by the State Board of Education. This bill would prohibit school districts from including, or causing to be included, on a pupil's school identification card or any other object that a pupil is required by school officials to carry on his or her person while present at school, any information about that pupil's scores on standardized tests or the course grades that the pupil has received. The bill would define "information" for these purposes to include the pupil's actual test scores or grades, the percentile or range into which those test scores or grades fall, or any symbol, color, logo, or other device or emblem used to represent or convey any information about those test scores or grades. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature that it not be construed to prohibit schools from honoring or recognizing pupil achievement nor to prohibit a pupil, at his or her option, from wearing or displaying an emblem or insignia that honors or recognizes his or her academic achievements.