Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Performance Rating.
1. For the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school
years, the performance rating for each publicly-funded site shall be based on
the average of the dimension-level toddler and pre-K observation results from
the fall and spring observation periods for all toddler and pre-K classrooms
within the site, excluding the negative climate dimension.
2. For 2020-2021 school year and beyond, the
performance rating for each publicly-funded site shall be based on the average
of the dimension-level infant, toddler, and pre-K-3 observation results from
the fall and spring observation periods for all infant, toddler, and pre-K
classrooms within the site, excluding the negative climate dimensions.
a. Exception due to the COVID-19 pandemic
with regard to observation completion and other associated challenges. For the
2020-2021 school year only, the performance rating for each site which received
at least one observation during 2020-2021 shall be based on the higher of the
published 2019-2020 performance rating and the 2020-2021 performance rating
calculated for the site.
i. The LDE shall
share performance summaries based on 2020-2021 observations for informational
purposes only.
ii. Sites not
receiving any observations during the 2020-2021 school year shall not receive a
performance rating.
3. BESE may include a weight for improvement
beginning with the 2016-2017 school year.
4. Sites that have classrooms which receive a
score of 3.5 or above for the negative climate dimension and sites that have
infant classrooms that receive a "low" on the lack of adult negativity
indicator will receive a notice in writing at the end of the observation period
in which the score was received. If a site receives a notice for two
consecutive observation periods, an indicator of high negative climate, low
lack of adult negativity or an indicator for both may be reported on the
performance profile. Lack of adult negativity is an indicator used in infant
CLASS® and is comparable to the
pre-K-3 and toddler negative climate dimension. Like all indicators for
CLASS®, the measure is expressed as
"high," "medium," or "low" rather than as a numerical score.
B. Any classroom in a
publicly-funded site that does not have the observations required in LAC
28:XCI.503 or does not have all results reported, shall have third-party scores
for that classroom reported when available. If no third-party scores are
available for that classroom, but there are observation scores for comparable
classrooms within the site as required in LAC 28:XCI.503, the department shall
assign the average domain score for the comparable classrooms to each missing
CLASS® score. The department may
assign a score of 1 to each missing
CLASS® domain score if no
comparable local or third-party scores are available. If this occurs, the score
of 1 for missing or not-reported observation results shall be included in the
performance rating calculation for that site. In these circumstances, the
number of missing or not-reported observation results shall be reported on the
performance profile.
1. Lead agencies may have
their approval terminated as provided in
§309. G for
incomplete observations or observation results not reported.
2. Any site or program that has diligently
sought observations from the lead agency, including written evidence of such
efforts, and that has not been provided such observations, may request of BESE
an appeal of its performance rating as described in
§521 BESE shall consider diligent
efforts and evidence thereof in determining the appeal.
3. Prior to the issuance of the
publicly-funded site or community network profiles, the department shall
provide to the Advisory Council on Early Childhood Care and Education committee
members and to BESE members a list of all publicly funded sites receiving a
score of one due to a missing or not-reported
CLASS® domain score and the number
of such ones received by each site.
4. Exception due to the COVID-19 pandemic
with regard to observation completion and other associated challenges. For the
2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years only, a classroom that does not have a
second observation because the classroom received a fall
CLASS® score of 4.50 or higher
after third party replacement shall have their fall
CLASS® score after third party
replacement duplicated and treated as the spring local observation for the
purposes of performance rating. A classroom that does not have a second
observation for any other reason shall have their score replaced consistent
with Subsection B of this Section.
C. The department shall compare the
domain-level results from observations of classrooms conducted by the
departments third-party contractors to the domain-level results from
observations conducted by the community network for each publicly-funded site.
1. In calculating the performance rating, the
department shall replace domain-level results from classroom observations
conducted by community networks with the domain-level results from observations
conducted by the departments third-party contractors for any single domain in
which the results differ by more than one point and shall calculate the
performance rating using the replaced results.
2. The department shall monitor the
domain-level observation results of classroom observations conducted by
community networks for each publicly-funded site, including by observer, and
domain-level observation results conducted by the departments third-party
contractor for each publicly-funded site.
a.
Beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, if observation results conducted by
community networks are consistently different by more than one point from
observation results conducted by the departments third-party contractors, the
department may replace all of the community networks observation results for a
publicly-funded site with the results from the departments third-party
contractors, including those results that do not differ by at least one
point.
b. Beginning with the
2016-2017 school year, if observation results conducted by community networks
are consistently different by more than one point from observation results
conducted by the departments third-party contractors, the department may
replace all of the community networks observation results for a publicly-funded
site with the results from the departments third-party contractors, including
those results that do not differ by at least one point.
D. The performance rating for each
site shall be based on the following numerical scale:
1. 6.0-7.0-excellent;
2. 5.25-5.99-high proficient;
3. 4.50-5.24-proficient;
4. 3.0-4.49-approaching proficient;
5.
1.0-2.99-unsatisfactory
E. The numerical scale and performance rating
shall be used for each CLASS®
domain and for the overall performance rating.
F. BESE may transition to a five-level rating
scale beginning with the 2017-2018 school year
G. BESE shall review the overall rating
calculation, including but not limited to data collected on the informational
metrics of best practices, prior to the 2016-2017 school year and determine
whether additional factors should be added to the rating calculation.
AUTHORITY
NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
17:6 and
17:407.21 et
seq.
