La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CXI-316

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

Section CXI-316 - Cell Phones and Other Electronic Devices

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 make certain that the devices are in the off position while test booklets and answers documents are in the vicinity.

1. Except for devices required for approved accommodations or online assessments, 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.

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 students 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.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CXI-316

Promulgated by the Department of Education, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 32:391 (March 2006), LR 40:2512 (12/1/2014).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:24 et seq.