Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part CLIII - Bulletin 133-Scholarship Programs › Chapter 13 - Criteria for School Participation in the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program › Section CLIII-1305 - Accountability System for Participating Nonpublic Schools

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Accountability criteria shall serve the
				goal of ensuring the public trust that all schools participating promote
				student achievement.
B. Within the
				accountability system, the state superintendent may adjust individual numeric
				performance targets and thresholds to accommodate changing policies and
				circumstances outside the accountability system.
C. Because some schools are larger
				participants than others in the program, and thus take on a larger share of the
				public trust, accountability criteria shall vary depending on the number of
				scholarship students enrolled in the school as of October 1 of each academic
				year, as follows.
D. As nonpublic
				schools approved by the board in accordance with Article 8, Section 4 of the
				Louisiana State Constitution, all participating schools shall continue to
				demonstrate a sustained curriculum of quality at least equal to that prescribed
				for similar public schools. In accordance with
				R.S.
				17:11, the LDE will periodically determine
				whether the nonpublic school is maintaining such quality.
Number of Participating Students
Means of Academic Numeric Measurement and
							 Reporting
Average of 0-9.9 participating students per K-12
							 grade in the school and fewer than 40 students enrolled in tested grades
Per state and federal law, state test scores will be
							 reported publicly for the entirety of the scholarship program student cohort if
							 the school has 10 or more participating students taking tests, as well as for
							 any grade level with 10 or more participating students taking tests.
Average of 3 10
							 participating students per K-12 grade in the school or 40 or more students
							 enrolled in tested grades
Per state and federal law, state test scores will be
							 reported publicly for the entirety of the scholarship program student cohort if
							 the school has 10 or more participating students taking tests, as well as for
							 any grade level with 10 or more participating students taking tests.
A Scholarship Cohort Index, calculated in a manner
							 that is substantially similar to the school performance score outlined in
							 Bulletin 111 and is based on state assessments of student learning, shall be
							 produced after the school year in which assessments were taken. The scholarship
							 Cohort Index will measure only students in the scholarship program rather than
							 the school as a whole.
E.
				Nonpublic Schools that Receive Scholarship Cohort Indexes
1. There shall be three fundamental rules of
				the accountability system for participating nonpublic schools that receive
				scholarship cohort indexes. Starting with the 2012-2013 school year:
a. Scholarship cohort indexes will be
				released after the school year on which they are based. If the school receives
				a scholarship cohort index below 50 in the second year of participation or in
				any year thereafter (on a scale of 150), the school shall not enroll additional
				scholarship recipients for the next school year. Students attending a
				participating school that receives a score below 50 in any year shall have
				priority admission to attend another participating school the following
				year;
b. following four school
				years of program participation, and in any period of four school years
				thereafter, if the participating school has scored below 50 for the majority of
				years in which it received a scholarship cohort index, the school shall be able
				to enroll new scholarship recipients only after achieving a score greater than
				50 and a satisfactory quality review by the LDE.
c. beginning with the 2021-2022 school year,
				a participating school that for three consecutive years receives a scholarship
				cohort index below 50 shall be ineligible to participate in the
				program.