Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CLIII - Bulletin 133-Scholarship Programs
Chapter 7 - Testing
Section CLIII-701 - Required Participation in the State Testing Program
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code CLIII-701
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
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.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S.17:6 and R.S. 17:4025.
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