Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. An appeal/waiver procedure and a data
certification process have been authorized by the State Board of Elementary and
Secondary Education (SBESE) and shall be used to address unforeseen and
aberrant factors and to correct inaccurate accountability data impacting
schools in Louisiana.
1. Beginning with the
2008-09 academic year, in compliance with the requirement in the
No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001 that a school shall have an opportunity
to review school level data prior to being identified as an Academically
Unacceptable School or failing the subgroup component, the LDE shall establish
a data certification period for all schools/LEAs to correct any inaccurate
accountability data.
a. The LDE shall provide
a period (or periods) of not less than 30 calendar days for final review,
correction, and verification of accountability data.
b. All cohort graduation data must be
corrected during the year following its collection.
c. The LDE will provide training to district
level staff on an annual basis.
2. All data correction must occur during the
designated data certification period.
3. Each LEA must collect supporting
documentation for every data element that is corrected and maintain the
documentation on file for at least four years.
4. Each school district shall create and
implement a district data certification procedure that requires the site-based
administrator at each accountable school to review all accountability data
during the data certification period.
B. The LDE shall review all data corrections
during the certification period and grant approval of those proven valid. The
LDE may request documentation to support the validity of the changes.
C. The appeal/waiver procedure is created to
address issues when the literal application of accountability policy does not
consider certain unforeseen and unusual circumstances.
1. All appeal/waiver requests must be
submitted to the LDE within 15 working days of the fall accountability
release.
2. The LDE shall review
appeal/waiver requests and make recommendations to the SBESE during first
regularly scheduled BESE sessions following the close of the appeal/waiver
period. Within this interval, the LDE shall notify LEAs of its recommendations
and allow them to respond in writing. The LDE's recommendations and LEA
responses will be forwarded to SBESE for final disposition.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
17:10.1.
