La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XI-5316

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

Section XI-5316 - Cell Phones and Other Electronic Devices [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.316]

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.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XI-5316

Promulgated by the Department of Education, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 32:391 (March 2006), amended LR 40:2512 (December 2014), Amended LR 43635 (4/1/2017).

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