Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CLXVII - Bulletin 140-Louisiana Early Childhood Care and Education Network
Chapter 5 - Early Childhood Care and Education Accountability System
Section CLXVII-511 - Performance Rating Calculations for Community Networks

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code CLXVII-511

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. Community networks shall receive two performance ratings which shall be calculated as follows.

1. CLASS® observation results shall be one of the community network performance ratings.

2. An equitable access score for four-year-olds shall be one of the community network performance ratings.

3. BESE may include a weight for improvement on equitable access beginning with the 2017-2018 school year.

B. The CLASS® observation results will be determined by averaging the results of all fall and spring dimension-level toddler and pre-K-3 observation results for all toddler and pre-K classrooms within the community network excluding negative climate. Beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, the CLASS® observation results will be determined by averaging the results of all fall and spring dimension-level infant, toddler, and pre-K observation results for all infant, toddler, and pre-K classrooms within the community network, excluding negative climate.

1. Any classroom in a site that does not have the observations required in LAC 28:XCI.503, or has not had all observation 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 that site as required in LAC 28:XCI.503, the department shall assign the average domain score for the comparable classrooms to each missing CLASS® domain score. The department may assign a score of 1 to each missing CLASS® domain score if no comparable local or third-party score is available. If this occurs, the score of 1 for missing observation or not-reported results shall be included in the performance rating calculation for the community network. In these circumstances the number of missing or not-reported observation results shall be reported on the community networks performance profile.
a. Lead agencies may be subject to termination as provided in §309.G for incomplete observations or observation results not reported.

2. 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 community network for each publicly-funded site.
a. In calculating the performance rating, the department shall replace domain-level results from classroom observations conducted by community network with the domain-level results from observations conducted by the departments third-party contractor for any single domain in which the results differ by more than one point and shall calculate the performance rating using the replaced results.

b. The department shall monitor domain-level observation results of classroom observations conducted by community network for each publicly-funded site, including by observer, and domain-level observation results conducted by the departments third-party contractors for each publicly-funded site.
i. For every year after the 2015-2016 school year, if the observation results conducted by a community network are consistently different by more than one point from observation results conducted by the departments third-party contractor, the department may replace all of the community networks observation results for a publicly-funded site with the results from the departments third-party contractor for that site, including those results that do not differ by at least one point.

ii. For every year after the 2015-2016 school year, if the observation results conducted by a community network are consistently different by more than one point from observation results conducted by the departments third-party contractor, the department may replace all of the community networks observation results for a publicly-funded site with the results from the departments third-party contractor for that site, including those results that do not differ by at least one point.

C. The equitable access score performance rating shall be determined by calculating the access achieved by the community network for all at-risk four-year-old children in the community network coverage area. Points are earned on a four-level rating scale according to:

Percentage of At-Risk Four-Year-Olds Served

Rating

95-100 percent

Excellent

85 - 94.99 percent

High Proficient

75-84.99 percent

Proficient

65-794.99 percent

Approaching Proficient

0-64.99 percent

Unsatisfactory

D. The CLASS® observation results performance rating for each community network 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 reporting each CLASS® domain and the overall performance rating.

F. BESE may transition to a five-level rating scale beginning with the 2017-2018 academic 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.

H. Prior to the start of the 2017-2018 school year, a workgroup of Early Childhood Care and Education Advisory Council members shall be formed to study the inclusion of additional metrics in the performance rating calculations and review R.S. 17:407.21 et seq., for potential statutory changes, and shall make recommendations regarding the use of any additional performance rating calculation metrics in LAC 28:XCI.509.D.

I. Exception due to the COVID-19 pandemic with regard to observation completion and other associated challenges. For the 2020-2021 school year only, the LDE shall not publish community network ratings.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6 and 17:407.21 et seq.

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