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178.550 .

  4.  The state board of education shall hold at least three public hearings whenever it develops, evaluates, modifies, or revises academic performance standards or learning standards.  The hearings shall provide an opportunity to receive public testimony, including but not limited to testimony from educators at all levels in the state, local school boards, parents, representatives from business and industry, labor and community leaders, members of the general assembly, and the general public.  The state board of education shall hold the first hearing within thirty days of the work groups being convened.  The state board of education shall hold the second hearing approximately six months after it holds the first hearing.  The state board of education shall hold the third hearing when the work groups submit the academic performance standards they have developed to the state board.  The state board of education shall also solicit comments and feedback on the academic performance standards or learning standards from the joint committee on education and from academic researchers.  All comments shall be made publicly available.   5.  The state board of education shall develop written curriculum frameworks that may be used by school districts.  Such curriculum frameworks shall incorporate the academic performance standards adopted by the state board of education pursuant to subsection 1 of this section.  The curriculum frameworks shall provide guidance to school districts but shall not be mandates for local school boards in the adoption or development of written curricula as required by subsection 6 of this section.   6.  Not later than one year after the development of written curriculum frameworks pursuant to subsection 5 of this section, the board of education of each school district in the state shall adopt or develop a written curriculum designed to ensure that students attain the knowledge, skills and competencies established pursuant to subsection 1 of this section.  Local school boards are encouraged to adopt or develop curricula that are rigorous and ambitious and may, but are not required to, use the curriculum frameworks developed pursuant to subsection 5 of this section.  Nothing in this section or this act shall prohibit school districts, as determined by local boards of education, to develop or adopt curricula that provide for academic standards in addition to those identified by the state board of education pursuant to subsection 1 of this section.   7.  Local school districts and charter schools may adopt their own education standards, in addition to those already adopted by the state, provided the additional standards are in the public domain and do not conflict with the standards adopted by the state board of education. ­­-------- (L. 1993 S.B. 380 § 3, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1490)

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