Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 206 - Education, Dept. of
Sub-Agency 0002 - General Agency, Board or Commission Rules
Chapter 3 - RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Section 3-3 - Informal Review of School Performance Ratings

Universal Citation: WY Code of Rules 3-3

Current through September 21, 2024

(a) The Department shall provide preliminary annual performance ratings to districts for schools within those districts. Before the ratings are final, the schools shall review the ratings and the underlying calculations. Districts may suggest corrections to the Department within fourteen (14) days. Ratings become final on the fifteenth (15) day.

(b) Districts may file a request for informal review in a form and manner prescribed by the Department. The request shall include all relevant documents. The request shall state the basis for changing a school's performance rating. The basis for an informal review shall be limited to the following:

(i) To examine whether the Department improperly computed and reported the school's overall performance rating, including indicator-level performance, or

(ii) To examine whether the school was unable to administer the statewide assessment for good cause.

(c) When it receives the complete informal review request from a district, the Department shall review the documentation. A complete informal review request shall include:

(i) The name, telephone number, mailing address, and email address of the district superintendent and school principal seeking review; and

(ii) The specific reason for the review request, including data, facts, and evidence to support the review.

(d) If the review request is complete, the Department shall notify the district to that effect. If initial documents submitted do not constitute a complete request, the Department shall notify the district of the reason for the deficiencies. No request or related documentation may be submitted after notification from the Department that the request is complete or fifteen (15) days after the ratings are final, whichever is later.

(e) The Department shall submit a recommendation of either maintaining or amending a school's performance rating and the reasons for the recommendation to the Board not later than fourteen (14) days after the request for informal review is complete. The Department shall serve the recommendation on the district at the same time that it is submitted to the State Board.

(f) The Board shall hear the district's request for informal review no later than thirty days after the request is complete. The Board shall notify the Department and the district of the date, time, and location of the meeting in which the Board will consider the request for review.

(i) The district shall be allotted thirty (30) minutes to address the Board. The district may reserve a portion of its time for rebuttal.

(ii) The Department shall be allotted thirty (30) minutes to address the Board.

(iii) No additional documentation may be submitted at the meeting.

(iv) Presentations shall be limited to the basis raised by the district in its request for informal review.

(v) Districts may waive appearance before the Board and rely on the written documents already submitted. If a district waives appearance, it shall notify the Department no later than seven (7) days before the meeting. If a district waives appearance, the Department shall not be permitted to address the Board on the subject of that school's performance rating.

(g) The Board may deliberate and render a decision at the meeting in which it heard presentations by the district and the Department.

(h) The Board decision is the final agency action subject to judicial review under W.S. 16-3-114.

(i) Data maintained by the Department used to calculate performance level ratings shall not be subject to review under these rules.

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