reglab/statecodes huggingface dataset:
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 41 - Data Collection and Data Verification › Section XI-4104 - Data Validation [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4104]

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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 data
				  audit.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 41 - Data Collection and Data Verification › Section XI-4105 - Reported Irregularities [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4105]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section XI-4301 - Inclusion of All Districts [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4301]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section XI-4310 - Subgroup Component AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4310] (Repealed)

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AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 17:10.1.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section XI-4311 - District Letter Grades [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4311]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section XI-4315 - Progress Report [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4315]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 43 - District Accountability › Section XI-4317 - District Accountability Data Corrections [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4317]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section XI-4501 - Potential Impact of Disasters on Accountability [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4501]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section XI-4503 - One Year Waiver for "Severe Impact" Schools and Districts [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4503]

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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
				  311 into its current year October 1 enrollment of 3-11 students exited using
				  "disaster" codes or entered using "disaster" codes (see §4507).
3. for the 2016-2017 school year
				  school performance scores and letter grades, any school which sustained
				  significant damage as a result of federally declared disaster DR-4277,
				  Louisiana Severe Storms and Flooding, such that schools temporarily relocated
				  to another school campus or facility, or received a displaced school or entire
				  grade levels from another school at its campus as a result of such disaster,
				  the LDE shall use for school accountability purposes the higher of the
				  2016-2017 or 2015-2016 school performance score. This policy shall also apply
				  to all schools within the East Baton Rouge Parish system. The state
				  superintendent, with consent of the president of the board, may provide for the
				  same in cases of extraordinary and abnormal displacement of teachers and
				  students and hardship due to such disaster, if such displacement directly and
				  indisputably contributed to abnormal changes in school performance scores and
				  assessment results, based on analysis conducted by the LDE.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section XI-4507 - Identifying Displaced Students [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4507]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section XI-4509 - Assessment Index Calculations with Displaced Students for Limited Impact Schools [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4509]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section XI-4511 - Graduation Index Calculations for Limited Impact Schools [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4511]

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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 912 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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section XI-4517 - District Performance Score Calculations with Displaced Students [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4517]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 45 - Disaster Considerations for School and District Accountability › Section XI-4527 - Disaster Considerations for the School and District Subgroup Component [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4527]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 49 - School District Academically in Crisis › Section XI-4901 - Definition of Academically in Crisis [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4901]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 49 - School District Academically in Crisis › Section XI-4907 - The Financial Audit and Contracting an Independent CPA [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4907]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 1 - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System › Chapter 49 - School District Academically in Crisis › Section XI-4911 - Exiting the Status of a District Academically in Crisis [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.4911]

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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 XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 51 - General Provisions › Section XI-5101 - Purpose [Formerly LAC 28:CXL101]

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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.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 17:24.4 and
					 R.S.
					 17:391.1-391.11.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 51 - General Provisions › Section XI-5103 - Overview [Formerly LAC 28:CXL103]

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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
				  Secondary Education (SBESE) for student promotion and to provide guidelines
				  relative to the content of pupil progression plans.
B. The amendment and reenactment of the
				  Louisiana Competency-Based Education Program was the result of an
				  ever-increasing demand by Louisiana taxpayers for a better accounting of
				  educational dollars. Act 621, the Public School Accountability Law statute
				  initiated the following guidelines, which continue in the Louisiana
				  Competency-Based Education Program. The Public School Accountability Law called
				  for:
1. the establishment of a program for
				  shared educational accountability in the public educational system of
				  Louisiana;
2. the attainment of
				  established testing standards for education;
3. the provision of information for an
				  analysis of the effectiveness of instructional programs through test assessment
				  results; and
4. the annual
				  assessment of students based on state content standards.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 51 - General Provisions › Section XI-5105 - Testing and Accountability [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.105]

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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 Education shall provide the assessment results for each
				  student who is administered the standards-based assessment in English language
				  arts and mathematics to each public school governing authority no later than
				  June 30 of each year, with an exception given for any year in which a new
				  assessment or significant adjustments to an existing assessment are required in
				  order to align content standards or due to actions taken by BESE, the Division
				  of Administration, or the legislature. The results shall contain, but shall not
				  be limited to, the following:
1. the scale
				  score achieved by the student;
2.
				  the raw score achieved by the student;
3. student performance on categories and
				  subcategories within a given subject; and
4. longitudinal information, if available, on
				  the students progress in each subject area based on previous statewide
				  standards-based assessment data.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 51 - General Provisions › Section XI-5107 - Assessment Programs [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.107]

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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. Louisiana
				  Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) 2025. Criterion-referenced tests in
				  English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies in grades 3-8
				  and tests administered upon completion of English I, English II, algebra I,
				  geometry, biology, and U.S. history in high school assess student performance
				  relative to specific benchmarks established in the state's content standards
				  and provide data for evaluating student, school, and district performance.
1. The tests assess a student's complex
				  thinking skills as well as knowledge and application of information.
2. The assessments will be administered to
				  high school students enrolled in and/or receiving credit for a high school
				  course having a LEAP assessment or retesting for the purposes of graduation, as
				  well as for students in the third year assessment cohort as defined in Part XI,
				  Subpart 1,
				  §409
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 51 - General Provisions › Section XI-5109 - Assessment Populations [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.109]

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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 services under the Individuals with
				  Disabilities Education Act.
3.
				  Students with Disabilities. These are students who have been evaluated in
				  accordance with CFR 300.530-300.536 and are receiving special education and
				  related services as a result of an intellectual disability, a hearing
				  disability including deafness or hearing loss, a speech or language impairment,
				  a visual impairment including blindness, serious emotional disturbance
				  (hereafter referred to as emotional disturbance), an orthopedic impairment,
				  autism, traumatic brain injury, other health impairment, a specific learning
				  disability, deaf-blindness, or multiple disabilities (
Federal
				  Register
, Vol. 64, No. 48).
4. Gifted and Talented Students. These are
				  students who have been identified as possessing demonstrated or potential
				  abilities that give evidence of high-performing capabilities in intellectual,
				  creative, specific academic or leadership areas, or ability in the performing
				  or visual arts and who require services or activities not ordinarily provided
				  by the school in order to fully develop such capabilities;
5.Section 504 Students. These are students
				  with one or more disabilities according to the regulations for section 504 of
				  the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which defines disability as a physical or
				  mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life
				  activities.
6. English Learners.
				  These are students who are aged 3 through 21; who were not born in the United
				  States or whose native language is a language other than English; who are
				  Native Americans or Alaska Natives or native residents of the outlying areas
				  and come from an environment where a language other than English has had
				  significant impact on their level of English language proficiency; or who are
				  migratory, whose native language is a language other than English, and who come
				  from an environment where a language other than English is dominant; and whose
				  difficulties in speaking, reading, writing, or understanding the English
				  language may be sufficient to deny them:
a.
				  the ability to meet the state's proficient level of achievement on state
				  assessments;
b. the ability to
				  successfully achieve in classrooms where the language of instruction is
				  English; or
c. the opportunity to
				  participate in society.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 51 - General Provisions › Section XI-5111 - Limitations on Public Release of Assessment Data [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.lll]

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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 at one achievement level, do not release the assessment data
				  publicly.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 17:24.4.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5301 - Participation [Formerly LAC 28:CXl.301]

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A. All persons involved in assessment
				  programs must abide by the security policies and procedures established by the
				  LDE and the SBESE.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated ii accordance with
					 R.S.
					 17:81.6 et seq., R.S. 416 et seq., and R.S.
					 441 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5303 - Definitions [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.303]

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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 order to alter student or school assessment results
					 by inappropriately accessing secure test materials in violation of Bulletin
					 118, LAX 28:XI. Chapter 53.
Erasure
-erasing answers on paper and
					 pencil test, as well as changing answers online.
Secure Materials
-test materials that
					 contain test items or student responses and to which access is restricted.
					 Secure test materials include:
1.
				  student test booklets;
2. student
				  answer documents;
3. student log-in
				  information; and
4. any other
				  materials that contain test items or student responses.
Oath of Security
-attestation that a test
					 administrator has received required testing procedure training and vows to
					 comply with all policies set forth.
Test Security Violation
-actions(s)
					 committed by an educator during the handling or administration of secure
					 materials that compromises the validity of assessment results and may result in
					 voiding test scores.
Tesing Irreguilarity
-an error in test
					 handling or administration that compromises reliability regarding the security
					 of the test or the accuracy of the test data.
AUTHORITY
					 NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 17:81.6 et seq., R.S. 416 et seq., and R.S.
					 441 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5305 - Test Security Policy [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.305]

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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 assessments;
b. all
				  criterion-referenced tests (CRTs) and norm-referenced tests (NRTs).
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5307 - Change of District Test Coordinator Notification [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.307]

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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
				  coordinator must inform the new district test coordinator of the location of
				  placement tests and other relevant testing materials.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5309 - Erasure Analysis and Online Answer Changes [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.309]

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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 computed for each subject at each grade level.
2. Students whose wrong-to-right erasures
				  exceed the state average by more than four standard deviations are identified
				  for further investigation. For each student with excessive erasures, the
				  proportion of wrong-to-right erasures to the total number of erasures is
				  considered.
3. Based on the
				  criteria for excessive wrong-to-right erasures, scoring contractors produce the
				  following reports.
a. District/School Erasure
				  Analysis Report. This report identifies districts and schools within the
				  districts whose answer documents have excessive wrong-to-right
				  erasures.
b. Student Erasure
				  Analysis Report. This report identifies individual students whose answer
				  documents have excessive wrong-to-right erasures. The answer documents of
				  students identified as having excessive wrong-to-right answers are available
				  for review at the LDE upon request.
4. Once districts, schools, and individual
				  students have been identified, the state superintendent of education sends
				  letters to district superintendents stating that students in those districts
				  have been identified as having excessive wrong-to-right erasures. Copies of the
				  district/school and student erasure analysis reports are enclosed with the
				  letters. Copies of the correspondence are provided to the coordinator of test
				  security.
5. A summary report of
				  erasure analysis irregularities will be presented to BESE after each test
				  administration.
6.
				  Repealed
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5311 - Violations of Test Security [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.311]

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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 violations by school personnel or others that are reported. In addition, the
				  scoring process produces information regarding written responses that have
				  common elements, which indicate a student brought unauthorized materials to
				  testing and used them to assist in writing; that indicate that teacher
				  interference might have been a significant factor, and in which troubling
				  content was evident. Procedures for dealing with these issues follow.
1. Violation by Student as Observed by Test
				  Administrator
a. The test administrator must
				  notify the school test coordinator about any suspected incident of cheating and
				  provide a written account of the incident. Answer documents in such cases
				  should be processed like all other answer documents.
b. The school test coordinator must then
				  convene a school-level test security committee consisting at a minimum of the
				  principal, the school test coordinator, and the test administrator to determine
				  whether a test should be voided.
c.
				  If it is deemed necessary to void the test, the school test coordinator must
				  notify the district test coordinator of the void request in a letter written on
				  school letterhead, signed by the school principal and the school test
				  coordinator. The original account of the incident written by the test
				  administrator must be enclosed.
d.
				  The district test coordinator must then email a completed void form to the LDE,
				  as directed in the
District and School Test Coordinators
				  Manual
.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5312 - Testing Irregularities [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.312]

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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 directed in the
District and School Test Coordinators
				  Manual
.
B. If tests are
				  voided by the district due to administrative error, the LEA superintendent, on
				  behalf of individual students, must initiate a request to the state
				  superintendent of education for an opportunity to retest prior to the next
				  scheduled test administration on behalf of individual students.
C. If the LDE determines that an
				  administrative error that allows for a retest did occur the tests will be
				  voided. LDE will notify the LEA of the determination and of arrangements for
				  the retest. The LEA must provide a corrective plan of action.
D. To offset costs involved in retesting, the
				  vendor will assess the LEA a fee for each test.
E. The LDE will provide a report to the SBESE
				  of retests due to administrative errors.
F. Administrative errors on tests that result
				  from failure to transfer answers from a test form onto an answer form require
				  the following steps:
1. the LEA
				  superintendent will place a request on behalf of individual students, which
				  request must include a description of the administrative error and a corrective
				  plan of action, to the state superintendent of education to have the testing
				  vendor send to the district the students test booklet and a new answer
				  document;
2. the DTC and STC will
				  transfer only the answers not initially transferred from the test booklet onto
				  the new answer document; and
3. the
				  DTC will return all testing materials to the vendor, who will assess the LEA a
				  fee for the service.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5313 - Viewing Answer Documents [Formerly LAC 28:CXl.313]

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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 Accountability. The request must include:
1. the student's name;
2. the student's state identification
				  number;
3. the student's enrolled
				  grade;
4. the type of assessment
				  and the content area of the answer document or documents requested;
				  and
5. the district name and code
				  and school name and code where the student tested.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5315 - Emergencies during Testing [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.315]

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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 computer-based test or
				  place the answer document inside the test booklet and leave both on the desk
				  for paper-based tests. For computer-based tests, students will resume the test
				  after returning to the classroom. For paper-based tests, before students are
				  allowed back into the room, the test administrator should return to the room,
				  pick up the test booklets, answer documents, and other secure materials, and
				  then distribute them individually to the students when they have returned to
				  their desks.
2. If the room cannot
				  be locked and if at all possible, the test administrators should direct
				  students to place the answer document on top of the test booklet and hand both
				  along with any other secure materials to the test administrator as students
				  file out of the room. Test administrators should carry the documents with them
				  to their designated location outside the building. If return to the building is
				  delayed, the school test coordinator should pick up and check in the materials
				  from the test administrators.
3. If
				  testing has not started prior to the emergency and the students have not yet
				  opened their test booklets and answer documents, testing should start when
				  students return to the room.
4. If
				  students have opened their testing materials to begin testing and test security
				  has been maintained, testing may continue after students return to the
				  room.
5. If the test booklets have
				  been opened and test security has been compromised, testing should not be
				  continued. The answer documents should be sent to the testing company with the
				  responses that were completed prior to the emergency.
6. As a precautionary measure, graduating
				  seniors might be tested together in a single group or in several smaller groups
				  so test security is easier to maintain if there is an emergency.
7. If test security has been compromised, the
				  district test coordinator must notify the LDE, Division of Assessments and
				  Accountability, as soon as possible.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5316 - Cell Phones and Other Electronic Devices [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.316]

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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 possession of and/or uses a cell phone or
				  electronic device in any manner during the administration of a statewide test,
				  the phone or electronic device will be confiscated until assurance can be
				  evidenced that all traces of information, in print, image, or verbal form, have
				  been removed from all local and cloud storage and that no such traces remain on
				  the device.
1. Test administrators may have
				  devices but they must be in the off position while around secure test
				  materials, except for devices required for approved accommodations, online
				  assessments, or to provide technical assistance during online assessments.
2. If evidence exists on the cell
				  phone or other electronic device that indicates the device was used during the
				  test administration and/or test material was recorded and/or transmitted, the
				  student's score is voided.
3.
				  Violation of the no cell phone or electronic device Rule may result in
				  discipline by the district in accordance with local policy.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 53 - Test Security › Section XI-5319 - E-mail Addresses for Nonpublic and Public School Test Coordinators [Formerly LAC 28:CXl.319]

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A. All
				  designated school test coordinators for nonpublic and public schools are
				  required to provide the department with a valid work email address. Personal
				  email addresses (Yahoo! Hotmail, Google, etc.) will not be accepted.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 17:24.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 55 - Test Coordinator Responsibilities › Subchapter A - District Test Coordinator › Section XI-5501 - District Test Coordinator Role [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.501]

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A.
1. A
					 district test coordinator's responsibilities fall into three categories:
a. making arrangements for testing;
b. handling and maintaining the security of
					 test materials; and
c. training
					 school test coordinators, district special education directors/supervisors,
					 district Section 504 coordinators, district student information system
					 coordinators, and principals.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 55 - Test Coordinator Responsibilities › Subchapter B - School Test Coordinator › Section XI-5511 - School Test Coordinator Role [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.511]

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A. A school test coordinator's
					 responsibilities include:
1. supervising
					 testing procedures and materials control at the school level;
2. scheduling testing dates and times with
					 the district test coordinator;
3.
					 making arrangements to test students with accommodations or accessibility
					 features when needed;
4.
					 scheduling and monitoring makeup testing;
5. notifying the district test coordinator
					 immediately of any missing secure materials;
6. verifying the count of all materials
					 received and reporting any discrepancies to the district test
					 coordinator;
7. ensuring the
					 security of testing materials;
8.
					 noting any discrepancies in the count or numbering of test booklets or answer
					 documents from that recorded on the security check off lists from the testing
					 contractor;
9. notifying the
					 district test coordinator of additional test booklets, answer documents, or
					 manuals needed;
10. reviewing all
					 manuals in their entirety;
11.
					 conducting a training session in test security and administration for test
					 administrators and all other individuals who have access to secure materials
					 before, during, and after test administration;
12. compiling a list of students approved for
					 accommodations, with the accommodations they are to receive, and providing a
					 list of such students in a testing group to individual test
					 administrators;
13. verifying that
					 classrooms have been prepared for testing (test-related content material
					 removed or covered, sufficient space for students, testing sign on
					 door);
14. distributing materials
					 to test administrators on the appropriate testing day and collecting, checking
					 in and putting into the secure storage area all secure testing materials at the
					 end of each day of testing and during any extended breaks;
15. monitoring testing sessions;
16. supervising test administrators who must
					 transfer student answers from large-print, braille, or other accommodation
					 formats to a scorable test form;
17. collecting and returning any computer
					 disks or other accommodation-format testing materials;
18. reporting any testing irregularities to
					 the district test coordinator; and
19. packaging test materials as instructed in
					 the manuals for return to the district test coordinator;
20. assigning TA numbers before scheduled
					 test administrations;
21.
					 distributing student reports and summary reports to teachers and parents in a
					 timely manner.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 59 - Kindergarten Entry Assessment › Section XI-5901 - Statement of Purpose [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.901]

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A. This Chapter provides for the
				  implementation of a kindergarten entry assessment to identify children's
				  developmental levels as required by Act 146, Regular Session, 1986. Activities
				  conducted under this Chapter shall be coordinated with other forms of
				  assessment conducted by the school district.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 17:24.4(F)(1)(b).
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 59 - Kindergarten Entry Assessment › Section XI-5903 - Definitions [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.903]

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Developmental Levels-
a set of skills or
					 specific tasks that most children can do at a certain age range.
Kindergarten Entry Assessment
-the process
					 of identifying the developmental levels of kindergarten children through
					 gathering of information concerning their social-emotional, language and
					 literacy, math, cognitive, and physical development.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 17:391.11, R.S. 17.24.4(F)(1)(b), and
					 R.S.
					 17:151.3.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part XI - Accountability/Testing › Subpart 3 - Bulletin 118-Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices › Chapter 59 - Kindergarten Entry Assessment › Section XI-5905 - Target Population [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.905]

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A. Every child entering public school
				  kindergarten for the first time shall be assessed with a research-based,
				  standards-aligned assessment. If a student is identified as having a disability
				  according to Bulletin 1508 and has a current multidisciplinary evaluation, he
				  or she shall not be excluded from this assessment. The results of the
				  assessment shall not exclude any child who meets the age requirements from
				  entering public school kindergarten.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 17:151.3,
					 R.S.
					 17:1941, and USCS §1400 et
					 seq.