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Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 16 - Academically Unacceptable Schools and Subgroup Component Failure › Section LXXXIII-1603 - Requirements for Academically Unacceptable Schools

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Schools/LEAs that do not comply with AUS
				remedies and sanctions will be eligible for state takeover.
B. Schools entering AUS Level 1 (AUS1)-AUS
				Level 3 (AUS3) must:
1. allow parents of
				students in academically unacceptable schools (AUS) to transfer their child to
				a higher performing public school as stated in Chapter 25;
2. supplemental education services (SES) are
				no longer a required remedy. However, if SES will be utilized in an "F" school,
				then the SES provider must be selected from a state-approved list of providers
				published annually by the LDE.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 16 - Academically Unacceptable Schools and Subgroup Component Failure › Section LXXXIII-1605 - Entry and Exit from Subgroup Component Failure

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A. Any school that fails to meet Subgroup AYP
				in the same subject or in the AAI for two consecutive years enters Subgroup
				Component Failure Level 1 (SCF1).
B. Schools in any level of subgroup component
				failure remain at the same level if they pass Subgroup AYP for one year in the
				subject that caused them to originally enter.
C. A school exits subgroup component failure
				when it passes the Subgroup AYP for two consecutive years in the subject that
				caused them to originally enter subgroup component failure.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 16 - Academically Unacceptable Schools and Subgroup Component Failure › Section LXXXIII-1607 - Requirements for Schools Identified as Failing the Subgroup Component for Two Consecutive Years

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A. Schools
				identified as entering subgroup component failure shall enter school
				improvement level 1. Each year the school improvement level shall be updated to
				reflect the number of years of subgroup failure.
B. Schools identified as SI1+ shall not
				qualify for "reward school" status or any of the benefits of such
				status.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 21 - State-Level School Improvement, Academically Unacceptable Schools and Subgroup Component Failure Tasks › Section LXXXIII-2101 - State Support at Each Level

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A. State's responsibilities to districts with
				schools in school improvement, and schools labeled AUS or for subgroup
				component failure as aligned with Chapter 16 levels of remedies and sanctions,
				include:
1. providing a diagnostic process
				for schools through the network structure;
2. providing support and training through the
				network structure; and
3. providing
				an approved list of supplemental educational service providers should schools
				or districts wish to utilize supplemental educational services.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 23 - Reconstitution/Alternate Governance Plans › Section LXXXIII-2301 - Schools Requiring Reconstitution/Alternate Governance Plans

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A. Districts shall
				notify SBESE of all school closures and reconstitution.by December 31 of the
				previous academic year. Notice shall include requests for site code changes,
				grade reconfigurations, and attendance zone changes. Requests to close schools
				after October 1 will not be approved until the end of the current academic
				year.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 24 - Recovery School District › Section LXXXIII-2401 - Eligibility for Transfer to the Recovery School District

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A. The Louisiana legislature established the
				recovery school district with the passage of
				R.S.
				17:1990. A school is eligible for the
				recovery school district under any of the following conditions.
1. The LEA fails to submit a reconstitution
				plan for a school in AUS 4 to BESE for approval.
2. A school's reconstitution plan is
				submitted to BESE but is deemed to be unacceptable.
3. A school and/or the LEA fails to comply
				with the terms of a BESE approved reconstitution plan.
4. A school is labeled academically
				unacceptable for four consecutive years.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 25 - School Choice › Section LXXXIII-2501 - Schools Requiring Choice

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A. An
				LEA must develop a school choice policy for schools that are academically
				unacceptable.
B. Beginning with the
				2003-04 school year, an LEA shall notify parents of their school choice options
				not later than the first day of the school year for the schools that must offer
				choice.
1. An LEA must offer more than one
				choice to eligible students, if more than one school is eligible to receive
				students.
2. The LEA must take into
				account the parents' preferences among the choices offered, or the LEA may
				allow parents to make the final decision.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 25 - School Choice › Section LXXXIII-2503 - Student Eligibility

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A. An LEA
				must offer choice to all students in an eligible school until the school is no
				longer identified as AUS except:
1. if an
				eligible student exercises the option to transfer to another public school, an
				LEA must permit the student to remain in that school until he or she has
				completed the highest grade in the school and shall provide transportation to
				the student.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 25 - School Choice › Section LXXXIII-2505 - Transfer Options

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A. An LEA may
				consider health and safety factors in determining the transfer options. Should
				the LEA have concerns for health and safety factors, the LEA will need to find
				ways to provide choice consistent with their obligations to provide a healthy
				and safe learning environment.
B.
				An LEA that is subject to a desegregation plan is not exempt from offering
				students the option to transfer.
1. An LEA
				should first determine whether it is able to offer choice within the parameters
				of its desegregation plan.
2. If it
				is not able to do so, or if the desegregation plan forbids the LEA from
				offering the choice option, the LEA needs to seek court approval for amendments
				to the plan that permit a transfer option for students.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 29 - Progress Report › Section LXXXIII-2901 - State Annual Reporting

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A. The
				SBESE shall report annually on the state's progress in reaching Louisiana's
				2014 goal. The Louisiana Department of Education shall publish individual
				school reports to provide information on every school's performance. The school
				reports shall include the following information: school performance scores,
				percent proficient scores, and school progress in reaching growth targets. The
				LDE shall report subgroup performance to schools for the following subgroups:
1. African American;
2. American Indian/Alaskan Native;
3. Asian;
4. Hispanic;
5. white;
6. two or more races;
7. economically disadvantaged;
8. limited English proficient;
9. students with disabilities; and
10. all students.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 31 - Data Correction and Appeals/Waivers Procedure › Section LXXXIII-3101 - Appeals/Waivers and Data Certification Processes

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A. An appeal/waiver procedure and a data
				certification process have been authorized by the State Board of Elementary and
				Secondary Education (SBESE) and shall be used to address unforeseen and
				aberrant factors and to correct inaccurate accountability data impacting
				schools in Louisiana.
1. Beginning with the
				2008-09 academic year, in compliance with the requirement in the
No
				Child Left Behind Act
of 2001 that a school shall have an opportunity
				to review school level data prior to being identified as an Academically
				Unacceptable School or failing the subgroup component, the LDE shall establish
				a data certification period for all schools/LEAs to correct any inaccurate
				accountability data.
a. The LDE shall provide
				a period (or periods) of not less than 30 calendar days for final review,
				correction, and verification of accountability data.
b. All cohort graduation data must be
				corrected during the year following its collection.
c. The LDE will provide training to district
				level staff on an annual basis.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 31 - Data Correction and Appeals/Waivers Procedure › Section LXXXIII-3103 - Definitions

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Appeal
-a request for the calculation or
				  recalculation of the School Performance Score (SPS), growth target, and/or
				  subgroup component scores based on the most recent spring test administration,
				  and attendance and dropout data from the prior academic year.
Waiver
-a temporary "withholding" of
				  accountability decisions for no more than one accountability year. Waivers
				  shall be denied to aggrieved parties attempting to subvert the intent of
				  provisions outlined in the state statute.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 31 - Data Correction and Appeals/Waivers Procedure › Section LXXXIII-3105 - General Guidelines-Parent/School-Level Requests

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A. Parents or individual schools seeking an
				appeal or waiver on issues relating to Louisiana's District and School
				Accountability System shall file their requests, regardless of the type,
				through the local superintendent, charter school leader, or appointed
				representative as authorized by the local governing board of
				education.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 31 - Data Correction and Appeals/Waivers Procedure › Section LXXXIII-3107 - General Guidelines-Local Board of Education-Level Requests

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A. The local
				superintendent, charter school leader, or official representative of each local
				governing board of education shall complete the LDE's appeals/waivers request
				form and provide supporting documentation to the Division of Assessments and
				Accountability no later than 15 working days after the official release of the
				fall accountability results.
B.
				Data corrections shall not be grounds for an appeal or waiver request as all
				data corrections shall be made prior to the release regardless of the source of
				any errors.
1. Requests concerning either the
				inclusion or exclusion of special education student scores in accountability
				calculations, except as outlined in Bulletin 111, shall not be considered by
				the LDE.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 31 - Data Correction and Appeals/Waivers Procedure › Section LXXXIII-3109 - Criteria for Appeal

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A. LEA
				superintendents or charter school leaders shall notify the LDE in writing of
				any changes to existing school configurations and newly opened schools no later
				than the 15 day appeal/waiver window during the first year of the
				reconfiguration and school opening. All school closures must be reported at the
				end of the schools' last academic year of operation.
B. LEAs may petition the SBESE in instances
				not addressed by policy or in instances when the policy is unclear.
C. An appeal shall be filed by the LEA in
				order to receive monetary rewards for any eligible closed school.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 33 - New Schools and/or Significantly Reconfigured Schools › Section LXXXIII-3301 - Inclusion of New Schools

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A. For
				a newly formed school, the school district shall register the new school with
				the Louisiana Department of Education to have a site code assigned to that
				school. A new school shall not be created nor shall a new site code be issued
				in order to allow a school to avoid an accountability decision or prevent a
				school from entering the accountability system. Before a new school is created,
				the local education agency must work with the Louisiana Department of Education
				to explore ways the new school can be included in the accountability
				system.
B. When two or more schools
				are created from an existing school (e.g., grades 4-6 "split" from an existing
				K-6 structure, creating a K-3 school and a 4-6 school), the LEA must consult
				with the LDE prior to implementing such changes to determine how the impacted
				schools will retain reward and/or AUS or subgroup component failure status and
				any sanctions, remedies, and funds (e.g., a 3-8 school in AUS 3 should retain
				the AUS3 status in both schools if it is reconfigured into a 3-5 and a 6-8
				school and if all grade levels contributed to its poor performance). After this
				consultation, the LDE shall make all decisions regarding the effects of these
				changes on rewards, AUS and subgroup component failure status, and sanctions
				for all schools effected by the changes and will notify the LEA of its
				decision.
C. New K-8 schools (in
				existing LEAs) with one year of test data shall be included in accountability.
				For dropout/credit accumulation data, the district average for elementary
				schools will be used.
D. The new
				high school in an existing LEA shall enter accountability using its first year
				of assessment data.
1. This adjusted
				assessment index shall be used as a first year SPS to assign letter
				grades.
2. The graduation index
				calculated from the school's first graduating class shall be included as a SPS
				indicator.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 33 - New Schools and/or Significantly Reconfigured Schools › Section LXXXIII-3303 - Reconfigured Schools

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A. Reconfigured
				schools are identified as schools that change grade configuration, combine two
				schools with separate sitecodes into one school with a single sitecode, or
				divide one school into two separate schools with different sitecodes. Data
				collected at one site shall not be moved to another site and included in
				accountability results except when two or more schools with dissimilar
				configurations combine to create one school.
B. Prior to any reconfiguration, the LDE will
				review the changes to school sites in the planned reconfiguration and will
				consult with the LEA on the effects that the reconfiguration will have on
				rewards and/or AUS or subgroup component failure status. After this
				consultation, the LDE shall make all decisions regarding the effects of these
				changes on rewards, AUS or subgroup component failure status, and sanctions for
				all schools effected by the changes and will notify the LEA of its decision.
				Any AUS, SCF, or AA status and eligibility for participating in any specific
				programs shall be determined by the LDE.
C. All reconfigurations must be submitted to
				the sponsor site database before October 1 of the first year of operation under
				the reconfiguration.
D. High
				schools with a grade 12 that merge with a school without a grade 12 will retain
				its graduation data from the prior year.
E. When a high school with a grade 12 merges
				with another school with a grade 12, the graduation cohort outcome data from
				both schools will be combined together and recalculated.
F. The LDE will consult with the district
				concerning the SPS calculation when unusual circumstances or configurations
				exist.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 35 - Inclusion of Alternative Education Schools and Students in Accountability › Section LXXXIII-3501 - Alternative Education

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A.
				Districts must provide an alternative education placement for all students
				suspended for a period of more than 10 consecutive schools days or expelled.
				Districts shall either operate an alternative program or school (direct run or
				charter), or enter into an agreement with an education service provider to run
				a program or school.
B. Alternative
				schools and programs must be approved by BESE. Classifications must be
				submitted to the LDE prior to July 1 and cannot be changed until the following
				year.
C. For the purposes of school
				accountability alternative schools and programs are those that:
1. are established to meet the specific needs
				of students with special challenges that require educational environments that
				are alternatives to the regular classroom;
2. house one or more programs designed to
				address discipline, dropout prevention and recovery, credit recovery, etc;
				and
3. do not provide programs only
				for students who are academically advanced, gifted, talented, or pursuing
				specific areas of study (arts, engineering, medical, technical,
				etc.).
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 35 - Inclusion of Alternative Education Schools and Students in Accountability › Section LXXXIII-3503 - Alternative Schools Including Alternative Charter Schools [Formerly Sec. 3501]

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A. For the
				purposes of school accountability, alternative schools are those schools that:
1. have a separate site code; and
2. enroll some or all students for 45 or more
				days.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 35 - Inclusion of Alternative Education Schools and Students in Accountability › Section LXXXIII-3505 - Alternative Programs

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A. For
				the purposes of school accountability, alternative programs are those programs
				that provide education to suspended and/or expelled student but:
1. do not enroll students; and
2. do not have a site code.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 35 - Inclusion of Alternative Education Schools and Students in Accountability › Section LXXXIII-3507 - Alternative Schools for Adjudicated Youth [Formerly Section 3505]

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A. Any child who is
				in the custody of the Office of Juvenile Services, Department of Public Safety
				and Corrections, as a result of being an adjudicated delinquent or in need of
				supervision by a court and assigned by the office of juvenile services to a
				community-based program or facility, as provided for in
				R.S.
				17:100.1, shall be provided educational
				services pursuant to
				R.S.
				17:100.1.
1. For those LEAs providing educational
				services directly to students in these programs/facilities, the facility shall
				be considered a district alternative program or school for accountability
				purposes, according to the provisions set forth in
				§3505 of this bulletin.
2. Subject to the requirements of
				R.S.
				17:100.1(B), any city or
				parish school board may contract for the provision of educational services for
				children described in Subparagraph b. The site at which contracted educational
				services are provided may be considered an alternative program or alternative
				school, according to the provisions set forth in
				§3505 of this bulletin.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 39 - Inclusion of Students with Disabilities › Section LXXXIII-3901 - Assessment of Students with Disabilities

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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 LEAP, iLEAP, EOC assessments, ACT,
				PLAN, EXPLORE, or LAA 1 shall be included in the calculation of the SPS. Most
				students with disabilities shall take the assessments with accommodations, if
				required by their individualized education program (IEP).
1. Only students with significant cognitive
				disabilities are eligible to participate in LEAP Alternate Assessment Level 1
				(LAA 1) as defined by the LEAP Alternate Assessment Level 1 participation
				criteria.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 39 - Inclusion of Students with Disabilities › Section LXXXIII-3903 - LEAP Alternate Assessment Participation Criteria

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A. A student participating in LEAP Alternate
				Assessment Level 1 shall progress toward a certificate of
				achievement.
B. Students with
				disabilities participating in the LEAP Alternate Assessment Level 1 (LAA 1)
				must meet specific participation criteria as stated in
Bulletin
				1530
-
Louisiana's IEP Handbook for Students with
				Disabilities
.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 39 - Inclusion of Students with Disabilities › Section LXXXIII-3905 - Inclusion of Alternate Assessment Results

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A. All SPS shall include LAA 1
				scores.
B. Each LAA 1 exam will be
				assigned one of three performance levels (exceeds standard, meets standard,
				working toward standard) and each performance level will be assigned points for
				use in assessment index calculations as follows.
LAA 1 Performance Level
Assessment Points
Exceeds Standard
150
Meets Standard
100
Working Toward Standard
0
1. Students
				scoring meets standard or exceeds standard on a LAA 1 exam will be considered
				proficient in subgroup component calculations.
2. Students taking LAA 1 exams shall be
				included in accountability calculations at the grade level in which they are
				enrolled in the student information system (SIS).
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 40 - Definitions Related to English Proficiency › Section LXXXIII-4001 - Proficient in English

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A. To be
				considered English proficient and exit limited English proficient (LEP) status,
				a LEP student must score as follows.
1. For
				grades K-2:
a. two years at composite level V
				on the English language development assessment (ELDA); or, in the same
				year;
b. at composite level V on
				ELDA and at grade-level/benchmark/low-risk on a standardized reading
				assessment, such as DIBELS Next.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 40 - Definitions Related to English Proficiency › Section LXXXIII-4003 - Making Progress in Learning English

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A. Making progress in learning English will
				be demonstrated by a student who moves from the most recent Prior Year ELDA
				composite level to, in the current year, at least the next higher progress
				criterion as described below:
Prior Year ELDA Level
Progress Criterion
Beginning (Level I)
Lower Intermediate (Level II)
Lower Intermediate (Level II)
Upper Intermediate (Level III)
Upper Intermediate (Level III)
Advanced (Level IV)
Advanced (Level IV)
Full English Prof. (Level V) or English proficient
							 (Sec.4001-Definition)
Full English Prof. (Level V)
English Proficient (Sec.4001-Definition)
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 40 - Definitions Related to English Proficiency › Section LXXXIII-4005 - English Language Proficiency Descriptors

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A.
English language proficiency
				labels
are defined as:
1. Level I -
				Beginning Proficiency indicates that the student who is limited English
				proficient is:
a. beginning to understand
				short utterances;
b. beginning to
				use gestures and simple words to communicate;
c. beginning to understand simple printed
				material;
d. beginning to develop
				communicative writing skills.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 41 - Data Collection and Data Verification › Section LXXXIII-4101 - Valid Data Considerations

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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 results, which are otherwise:
a. expected;
b. unrealistic information; or
c. data generated as a result of defective
				data collection or processing.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 41 - Data Collection and Data Verification › Section LXXXIII-4103 - NRT and CRT Data

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A. For
				NRT and CRT data:
1. if there is evidence of
				irregular data or a UDR, the LDE shall require the LEA to investigate. The LEA
				shall report the results of its investigation to the State Superintendent of
				Education;
2. if the State
				Superintendent of Education determines that the results of the investigation do
				not sufficiently explain the data, s/he shall designate a team to visit the
				school and conduct its own investigation:
a.
				if the test data are determined to be inaccurate, invalid, and/or undocumented
				the LDE shall void or correct the data as described in §4101;
3. if the gains are validated by
				the visit, the school will be designated a "pacesetter" school. If the gains
				cannot be validated, the State Superintendent of Education may initiate further
				action.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 41 - Data Collection and Data Verification › Section LXXXIII-4104 - Dropout/Exit Data

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A. The LDE may
				review and validate attendance, dropout, 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 data audit.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 41 - Data Collection and Data Verification › Section LXXXIII-4105 - Reported Irregularities

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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.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4301 - Inclusion of All Districts

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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 reported for each school district for district
				accountability:
1. a district performance
				score (DPS); and
2. a subgroup
				component.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4310 - Subgroup Component AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress)

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A. District Subgroup Component Indicators
1. Each district shall be evaluated on the
				subgroup component at three different levels (grade-clusters); elementary
				(K-5), middle (6-8), and high school (9-12). A district shall pass the subgroup
				component provided that each subgroup of students within each grade-cluster
				meets the passes the subgroup component, and each grade-cluster the district,
				as a whole, meets the criteria for status or improvement on the additional
				academic indicator.
a. Passing the Subgroup
				Component
i. Participation rate test: 95
				percent of the students within the each subgroup within each grade-cluster
				participated in the standards-based assessments; and
ii. Annual measurable objective status test
				(AMO status test): the subgroup percent proficient score within each
				grade-cluster is at/or above the annual measurable objective in ELA and
				mathematics; or
iii. Safe harbor
				test:
(a). the percentage of non-proficient
				students within the each subgroup within each grade-cluster reduced declined by
				at least 10 percent of the previous year's value; and
(b). the subgroup improved or met the
				criterion on the additional academic indicator (attendance rate for the
				elementary and middle schools grade-clusters and non-dropout rate for the high
				schools grade-cluster).
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4311 - District Letter Grades

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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.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4315 - Progress Report

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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, as well as data from the
				subgroup component.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4317 - District Accountability Data Corrections

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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.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4501 - Potential Impact of Disasters on Accountability

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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 significant numbers of students from affected schools and
				districts;
3. enrollment of
				significant numbers of displaced students into receiving schools and
				districts;
4. emigration of
				displaced students to other states;
5. multiple transfers of displaced students
				as they move from shelters and temporary housing to more permanent
				situations;
6. the transfer of
				displaced students as they return to their home schools and
				districts.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4503 - One Year Waiver for "Severe Impact" Schools and Districts

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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 the disaster occurred. The conditions are:
1. the school was closed, due to a disaster,
				for 18 or more consecutive school days during a given academic year;
				or
2. the school either gained or
				lost 25 percent or more of its testing population due to a disaster.
a. This 25 percent gain or loss is calculated
				by dividing a school's prior year October 1 enrollment of students in grades
				3-11 into its current year October 1 enrollment of 3-11 students exited using
				"disaster" codes or entered using "disaster" codes (see §4507).
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4507 - Identifying Displaced Students

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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 what specific disasters and impacted districts to which these codes
				will be applied and any time limitations.
C. Districts are required to use the
				"disaster codes" as instructed by the LDE if consideration related to
				accountability is to be granted the schools and districts.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4509 - Assessment Index Calculations with Displaced Students for Limited Impact Schools

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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 described in Chapters 3
				and 4, but excluding the assessment results of any student who entered the
				school using a "disaster" entry code during that academic year. The assessment
				index calculated when excluding the displaced students is called the alternate
				assessment index.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4511 - Graduation Index Calculations for Limited Impact Schools

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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 graduation cohort as described in Chapter 6.
C. When student mobility is a result of a
				disaster, students exiting grades 9-12 using a "disaster" exit code shall not
				be considered dropouts (refer to §611).
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4517 - District Performance Score Calculations with Displaced Students

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A. The District
				Performance Scores will be calculated using the same indices as School
				Performance Scores with displaced students excluded.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section LXXXIII-4527 - Disaster Considerations for the School and District Subgroup Component

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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 for 18 consecutive school days.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 49 - School District Academically in Crisis › Section LXXXIII-4901 - Definition of Academically in Crisis

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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.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 49 - School District Academically in Crisis › Section LXXXIII-4907 - The Financial Audit and Contracting an Independent CPA

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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 the financial policies and practices of the school
				district.
1. The district school board shall
				make its selection within 10 working days of receipt of the superintendent's
				list.
2. If the selection is not
				made within 10 days, the district superintendent shall refer the matter to the
				legislative auditor who shall select the independent, licensed, certified
				public accountant to complete the required audit.
3. The audit shall be conducted using
				generally accepted governmental auditing standards and the Louisiana
				Governmental Audit Guide.
4. The
				engagement agreement describing the scope of the audit shall be submitted to
				legislative auditor for his review and comment to the district school board
				prior to the execution of the agreement.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 49 - School District Academically in Crisis › Section LXXXIII-4911 - Exiting the Status of a District Academically in Crisis

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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 addressed.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXV - Bulletin 112-Louisiana Connectors for English Language Learners › Chapter 1 - Introduction › Section LXXXV-101 - Introduction

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A. The Louisiana
				connectors for English language learners, developed for K, 1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-8,
				and 9-12, highlight and amplify the critical language, knowledge about
				language, and skills using language that are in college-and-career-ready
				standards and that are necessary for English language learners (ELL) to be
				successful in schools. The 10 connectors for English language learners
				highlight a strategic set of language functions (what students do with language
				to accomplish content-specific tasks) and language forms (vocabulary, grammar,
				and discourse specific to a particular content area or discipline) which are
				needed by English language learners as they develop competence in the practices
				associated with English language arts (ELA) and literacy, mathematics, and
				science. The five English language proficiency levels for each of the
				connectors address the question, "What might an English language learners
				language use look like at each English language proficiency level as he or she
				progresses toward independent participation in grade-appropriate activities?"
				The connectors might also be framed in relation to narrower domains of
				listening, speaking, reading, and writing and also in relation to broader
				receptive, productive, and interactive modalities. The interactive modalities
				category allows for emphasis on the need for English language learners to
				meaningfully engage with their peers during content area instruction.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17.6.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part LXXXV - Bulletin 112-Louisiana Connectors for English Language Learners › Chapter 1 - Introduction › Section LXXXV-103 - Listening Benchmarks and Proficiency Levels (Repealed)

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AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17.6.