Chapter XI

A. A special advisor shall be assigned to the OJJ by the LDE to assist schools with implementation of academic improvement efforts. 1. The special advisor shall have extensive experience working with schools in adjudicated settings. 2. The special advisor shall work directly with…

A. Students shall be assigned to appropriate educational programs and schools including high school diploma programs, industry-based certifications approved by BESE, and recognized high school diploma equivalent programs. B. Student and parent interests may be considered when ass…

A. OJJ shall request cumulative records for students upon entry to an OJJ school. B. OJJ shall send cumulative records to receiving local education agencies within two business days from when a request for records is received. In the case that an unforeseen circumstance creates a…

A. All students, including those with disabilities, shall participate in Louisiana's testing program. The scores of all students who are eligible to take the 3-8 or high school LEAP 2025, ACT, LEAP Connect, or Louisiana English language proficiency test (ELPT and ELPT Connect) sh…

A. Students with disabilities participating in the LEAP and ELPT alternate assessments LEAP Alternate Assessment, LEAP Connect, must meet specific participation criteria as stated in LAC 28:LV. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § XI-3903 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and S…

A. All SPS shall include LEAP Connect scores. B. Each LEAP Connect exam will be assigned one of four achievement levels and each achievement level will be assigned points for use in assessment index calculations as follows. LEAP Connect Performance Level Assessment Points Level 4…

A. To be considered English proficient and exit English learner (EL) status, an EL student must score level 4 (early advanced) or level 5 (advanced) on all four ELPT domains: 1. speaking; 2. listening; 3. reading; and 4. writing. B. In order for a student to receive an approval f…

A. For measuring progress on the ELPT assessment, the overall proficiency scores will be organized into the following levels: 1. emerging-all domain scores are one or two; 2. progressing 1-at least one domain score of three and the lowest domain score is one; 3. progressing 2-at …

A. For all grades 3-8 use the values from the following table. LEAP 2025 Index Points Label Subject-Test Index Points Advanced 150 Mastery 100 Basic 80 Approaching Basic 0 Unsatisfactory 0 B. Beginning no earlier than the 2019-2020 school year, the kindergarten through eighth gra…

A. All operational high school LEAP 2025 tests will be used in the calculation of the grade 9-12 assessment index. 1. All subjects will be weighted equally. 2. The performance level will be used in the calculation of the assessment index as described in the chart below. High Scho…

A. 1. Unusual Data Result (UDR) -any CRT, NRT, attendance, dropout/credit accumulation, and graduation data that exceeds a parameter or a range of parameters, which shall be determined by the LDE and approved by the SBESE. 2. Irregular Data -any data, which appears to contradict …

A. For all data used from state assessments: 1. if there is evidence of irregular data or an Unusual Data Result (UDR), the LDE shall require the LEA to investigate. The LEA shall report the results of the investigation to the State Superintendent of Education; 2. if the State Su…

A. The LDE may review and validate attendance, dropout, graduation, discipline, accountability code and exit code data: 1. due to an unusual data result or irregular data; 2. while at a school or district site primarily to investigate other data or records; 3. during a random dat…

A. The LDE will determine and the SBESE shall approve a process for the public to report possible irregularities. B. Anonymous complaints may be investigated. C. All signed complaints shall be investigated. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § XI-4105 Promulgated by the Board of Ele…

A. 1. The ACT composite score will be used in the calculation of the ACT assessment index as described in the chart below. To the extent practicable, a students highest earned score for any ACT administration shall be used in the calculation. ACT Composite Index Points Beginning …

A. A dropout/credit accumulation index score for each school with a grade eight shall be calculated. B. The following scale will be used to determine the dropout/credit accumulation index. 1. In order for students to be included in the calculations, they must; a. have been consid…

A. Every school district shall participate in a district accountability system based on the performance of schools as approved by the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (SBESE). B. Indicators for District Accountability. There shall be two statistics repo…

A. The LDE shall report district scores and labels on every school district. In 2013-2014 and 2014-2015, letter grades shall be assigned pursuant to § 303 of this bulletin. Thereafter, districts shall be assigned a district letter grade using their district performance score. Not…

A. The Louisiana Department of Education shall publish a district accountability report. The report shall contain the labels for the DPS. The report shall also contain the percent poverty, poverty ranking, and percentage of students enrolled in public education for the district, …

A. Since data used for district accountability results are derived from school-level data, district accountability data corrections should be handled during the school accountability appeals period. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § XI-4317 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary …

A. Special consideration shall be given to schools and districts significantly impacted by disasters when accountability decisions are made. The consideration shall include but not be limited to: 1. closure of schools and districts for extended periods of time; 2. transfer of sig…

A. Schools that meet either of two conditions associated with disasters shall be labeled "severe impact" schools and shall receive a one year waiver of accountability decisions based on the schools' school performance scores. The one year waiver is limited to the year in which th…

A. Beginning in fall 2005, the Louisiana Department of Education (LDE) will provide specific entry and exit codes and detailed instruction on the use of those codes to address significant and specific disaster situations. B. The Louisiana Department of Education must determine wh…

A. When student mobility occurs prior to October 1 of a given academic year as a result of a disaster, the data collected during that academic year for calculating the assessment index (for use in the SPS) shall be evaluated in two ways: 1. as described in Chapters 3 and 4; 2. as…

A. Displaced students entering grades 9-12 at a limited impact school using a "disaster" entry code shall not enter the graduation cohort in that academic year. B. If such a student is included in a school's Oct. 1 count of the following academic year, the student shall enter the…

A. The District Performance Scores will be calculated using the same indices as School Performance Scores with displaced students excluded. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § XI-4517 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 32:1414 (August 2006), amended …

A. 1. Schools and districts shall receive a one year exclusion from the Subgroup Component in accountability if they: a. reside within the boundaries of parishes declared natural disaster areas by the President of the United States; and b. were closed due to the declared disaster…

A. A school district shall be labeled Academically in Crisis when: 1. more than 30 schools in the district are academically unacceptable; or 2. more than 50 percent of the district's enrollment attends academically unacceptable schools. B. The state superintendent shall notify th…

A. The district school board of a district Academically in Crisis shall select and contract an independent, licensed, certified public accountant from a list of at least three such accountants submitted to the board by the superintendent to conduct an audit of the finances and th…

A. A school district Academically in Crisis shall remain so until: 1. fewer than 30 schools within the district are academically unacceptable; 2. fewer than 50 percent of the district's students are enrolled in Academically Unacceptable schools; and 3. all audit findings are addr…

A. Beginning in the 2017-2018 school year (2018 SPS), the progress index will be calculated for ELA and math LEAP 2025 assessments as follows. B. For students scoring unsatisfactory, approaching basic, or basic in the prior school year, the progress index will award 150 points fo…

A. Beginning in the 2017-2018 school year (2018 SPS), the progress index will be calculated for algebra I, geometry, English I, and English II assessments as follows. B. Progress is measured between a student's 8th grade ELA and math assessments and the LEAP 2025 ELA and math ass…

A. Bulletin 118 is intended to provide Louisiana educators and education administrators with a unified and comprehensive guide to testing programs, policies, and procedures in the state. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § XI-5101 Promulgated by the Department of Education, Board o…

A. The Louisiana Legislature in Regular Session during the summer of 1997 amended and reenacted R.S. 17:24.4(F) and (G)(1) , relative to the Louisiana Competency-Based Education Program, to require proficiency on certain tests as determined by the state Board of Elementary and Se…

A. Every school shall participate in a school accountability system based on student achievement as approved by BESE. B. All LEAs must administer all assessments according to the testing schedule dates approved by the LDE and reported annually to BESE. C. The state Department of …

A. Kindergarten Developmental Readiness Screening Program (KDRSP). Each school district is required to administer an approved entry assessment instrument to each child entering kindergarten for the first time, with the results to be used for placement and planning instruction. B.…

A. Classified Populations 1. Definition Classified Population! a population of students that is identified for educational and accountability purposes. 2. Regular Education Students. These are students who have not been identified as eligible for special education and related ser…

A. When the total N-count in any reporting category or group on an assessment report is nine or less, do not release the assessment data publicly. B. When the total N-count in any reporting category or group on an assessment report is ten or greater and all students are reported …

A. All persons involved in assessment programs must abide by the security policies and procedures established by the LDE and the SBESE. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § XI-5301 Promulgated by the Department of Education, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 31:1528 (J…

Access -physically handling secure test materials, including reading, reviewing, or analyzing test items or student responses, either before, during, or after testing, except where providing approved accommodations. Cheating -a test security violation committed by an educator in …

A. The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education holds the test security policy to be of utmost importance and deems any violation of test security to be serious. 1. Tests administered by or through the SBESE shall include but not be limited to: a. all alternate assessmen…

A. If during the academic year the person appointed as district test coordinator changes, the district superintendent must notify the LDE. The notification must be in writing and must be submitted within 15 days of the change in appointment. 1. The former district test coordinato…

A. To investigate erasures on student answer documents of the state testing programs, the SBESE and the LDE have developed the following procedures. 1. Scoring contractors scan every answer document for wrong-to-right erasures. The state average and standard deviation are compute…

A. The test security policy approved by the SBESE requires that the LDE establish procedures to deal with breaches of test security. District authorities provide the LDE information about voiding student tests because of student violations observed during test administration or v…

A. Administrative errors that result in questions regarding the security of the test or the accuracy of the test data are considered testing irregularities. If it is deemed necessary to void the test, the district test coordinator must submit a completed void form to the LDE, as …

A. A parent, guardian, student, school, or district must place a request to view an answer document through the district test coordinator. B. The district test coordinator must send a written request to view the answer document to the LDE, Division of Assessments and Accountabili…

A. For emergencies (e.g., fire alarms, bomb threats) that require evacuation of the classroom during administration of statewide assessments, the following procedures should be followed. 1. If the room can be locked, the test administrator should direct the students to pause a co…

A. If district and school policy allows for students and personnel to carry cell phones or other similar technological devices with imaging or text-messaging capability, test administrators must collect all devices secure test materials are in the vicinity. If a student is in pos…

A. Virtual charter schools shall be responsible for testing their own students. 1. Virtual charter schools shall test their students with staff of the virtual school. Virtual charter schools shall administer all state assessments and are subject to the Louisiana School and Distri…

A. Every school shall participate in a school accountability system based on student achievement as approved by the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (refer to R.S. 17:10.1 ). B. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which reauthorized the federal…