California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 1 - California Department of Education › Chapter 2 - Pupils › Subchapter 3.5 - Leroy Greene Assessment of Academic Achievement › Section 800 - General Testing Provisions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
To be eligible for incentive funding available under the
					 voluntary Pupil Testing Incentive Program pursuant to Education Code Section
					 60640(a),
					 a school district must certify that it administered an approved test to all
					 pupils enrolled in grades two through ten or in as many of those grades as are
					 operated by the school district during the time specified by the State
					 Superintendent of Public Instruction.
(a) Each pupil enrolled in the school
				  district during the school district's testing period shall be given an
				  achievement test of basic academic skills, including pupils in subgroups that
				  may have been exempt from testing in the past.
(b) School districts shall make whatever
				  arrangements are necessary to ensure that pupils in alternative education
				  programs or programs conducted off-campus are tested including, but not limited
				  to, pupils enrolled in the school district's continuation school, independent
				  study, or community day school.
(c)
				  Make-up sessions shall be scheduled to permit pupils who were not present
				  during the initial test administration to complete the achievement test of
				  basic academic skills.
(d) A parent
				  or guardian may submit to the school a written request to excuse his or her
				  child from any or all parts of the achievement test of basic academic skills.
				  Such requests must be initiated by the parent or guardian and no school
				  official shall solicit such a written request on behalf of any child.
(e) If a pupil would not be tested pursuant
				  to Section 802(a), the school
				  in which the pupil is enrolled shall test the pupil upon the written request of
				  the pupil's parent or guardian that his or her pupil be tested with any or all
				  parts of the achievement test of basic academic skills. Such testing must be
				  conducted during the same testing window during which other pupils in the same
				  grade are tested.
(f) Achievement
				  tests of basic academic skills are to be selected from among those currently
				  approved for use by the California State Board of Education pursuant to
				  Education Code section
				  60604(d).
(g) School districts shall use more than one
				  approved test, if necessary, to produce scores for all pupils in the required
				  curriculum areas of reading, spelling, written expression, and
				  mathematics.
(h) Pupils in special
				  education programs may be tested with an achievement test of basic academic
				  skills with necessary adaptations or accommodations including, but not limited
				  to, large print, braille, extended time or the use of a reader or scribe.
				  Pupils tested with adaptations or accommodations shall be counted for the $5
				  per-pupil tested apportionment pursuant to Education Code section
				  60640(a).
(i) Oral language proficiency assessments do
				  not qualify as achievement tests of basic academic skills.
(j) School districts may administer an
				  achievement test of basic academic skills to pupils enrolled in grades other
				  than two through ten, but such pupils may not be counted for the $5 per-pupil
				  tested apportionment pursuant to Education Code section
				  60640(a).
(k) Pursuant to Education Code section
				  60641(a),
				  the State Superintendent of Public Instruction has designated that achievement
				  tests shall be administered during the fall, or beginning of the school year,
				  between 5 and 25 percent of the school district's instructional days, or during
				  the spring, or end of the school year, between 70 and 90 percent of the school
				  district's instructional days.
1. New
					 subchapter 3.5 (section
					 800) and section filed 5-22-96 as
					 an emergency; operative 5-22-96 (Register 96, No. 21). A Certificate of
					 Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 9-19-96 or emergency language will be
					 repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Editorial
					 correction of subsection (b) (Register 96, No. 38).
3. New
					 subchapter 3.5 (section
					 800) and section refiled 9-19-96 as
					 an emergency; operative 9-20-96 (Register 96, No. 38). A Certificate of
					 Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 1-21-97 or emergency language will be
					 repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. Repealed by
					 operation of Government Code section
					 11346.1(g)
					 (Register 97, No. 24).
5. New subchapter 3.5 (sections
					 800-802) and section filed 6-11-97;
					 operative 6-11-97 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11343.4(d)
					 (Register 97, No. 24).
Note: Authority: Sections
						33031 and
						60605(g),
						Education Code. Reference: Sections
						60603(a) and
						(c),
						60604(a)(1), (c), and
						(d),
						60605(b),
						60640 and
						60641,
						Education Code.