Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part CLIII - Bulletin 133-Scholarship Programs › Chapter 7 - Testing › Section CLIII-701 - Required Participation in the State Testing Program

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Scholarship recipients attending
				participating public schools shall participate in the state assessment program
				as outlined in Bulletin 118.
B.
				Nonpublic Schools
1. Participating nonpublic
				schools shall administer all state assessments that are subject to the
				Louisiana School and District Accountability System to their eligible student
				with nonpublic school staff in the school setting.
2. The participating nonpublic school will
				develop and submit to the department annually a test security policy in
				compliance with Bulletin 118, Chapter 3 approved by its board. After review of
				the test security policy by the department, the participating nonpublic school
				may be required to make revisions and resubmit.
3. Participating nonpublic schools shall
				follow BESE's test security policy as stated in Bulletin 118.
4. The participating nonpublic school shall
				name a school test coordinator for the school and provide contact information
				to the department.
a. The school test
				coordinator for the participating nonpublic school shall attend the pretest
				workshop designed for the participating nonpublic schools as well as any
				additional training required to administer the state tests.
b. All designated school test coordinators
				are required to provide the department with a valid work email address.
				Personal email addresses (Yahoo!, Hotmail, Google, etc.) will not be
				accepted.
c. When the school test
				coordinator changes, the participating nonpublic school shall provide the name
				and contact information of the new school test coordinator to the department on
				school letterhead within 15 days of the change in appointment.
5. The participating nonpublic
				school shall be responsible for all required accountability and demographic
				coding of testing documents.
6. The
				participating nonpublic school shall investigate and report any testing
				irregularities and/or violations of test security to the department. In
				addition, the department has the authority to conduct an investigation and void
				any scores deemed to be invalid.
7.
				The department staff shall have the authority to:
a. monitor the implementation of the state
				testing;
b. require changes to the
				testing plan as deemed necessary; and
c. conduct site visits during
				testing.
8. The
				department staff shall:
a. notify
				participating nonpublic schools of any new requirements in state testing;
				and
b. evaluate annually the
				testing plan to ensure full compliance with policies and procedures.
9. The local school district shall
				not test any students enrolled in participating nonpublic schools unless there
				is a written agreement between the local school district and the participating
				nonpublic school to this effect. No local school district shall ever be
				required to test students attending the participating nonpublic schools under
				the scholarship program.