La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XI-3607

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

Section XI-3607 - Monitoring and Interventions

A. A special advisor shall be assigned to the OJJ by the LDE to assist schools with implementation of academic improvement efforts.

1. The special advisor shall have extensive experience working with schools in adjudicated settings.

2. The special advisor shall work directly with the OJJ director of education, as well as the school principals, and designated LDE staff.

B. Monitoring

1. The LDE shall conduct a program of regular, in-person monitoring of OJJ schools.

a. The LDE shall conduct at least one in-person monitoring visit for each OJJ school per year.

b. The LDE shall develop a rubric for use as a monitoring tool during annual monitoring visits.

C. OJJ School Improvement

1. During the 2017-2018 school year, the OJJ special advisor and OJJ shall jointly review each schools results and monitoring visits data to collaboratively develop a comprehensive school improvement plan to be implemented no later than the 2018-2019 school year.

2. Beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, the LDE shall assign a progress label to each OJJ school based on monitoring results and the results measured by the specialized report card. The progress label shall indicate which schools are considered "academically unacceptable" for the purposes of this Section.

3. The LDE shall require supports, interventions, and remedies for any OJJ school earning a progress label indicating the school is academically unacceptable. The intensiveness of the supports, interventions and remedies developed by the LDE shall escalate for every year that a school continues to earn a progress label indicating the school is academically unacceptable.

4. Such supports, interventions, and remedies may include, but shall not be limited to:

a. development and implementation of a revised school improvement plan approved by the special advisor;

b. reconstitution of the school subject to the approval of BESE. Reconstitution may include, but shall not be limited to required actions related to school leadership, personnel, structure, operations, budgeting, program offerings, professional development, and contracting with one or more external partners.

D. Pursuant to R.S. 17:10.9(C)(b)(3), the LDE shall submit an annual report to the Juvenile Justice Reform Act Implementation Commission and the House and Senate Committees on Education detailing any supports, interventions, and remedies implemented for each OJJ school earning a progress label indicating the school is academically unacceptable. The report shall also be made available on the LDE website.

E. School Improvement Available to All Schools

1. In addition to the accountability provided above, OJJ schools shall participate in the statewide accountability system detailed in this bulletin applicable to all other public alternative schools.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XI-3607

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 432127 (11/1/2017).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:10.9.