La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CLIII-701

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section CLIII-701 - Required Participation in the State Testing Program

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.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CLIII-701

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 38:3131 (December 2012).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S.17:6 and R.S. 17:4025.