School Accountability Update Fall 2006 – Summer 2007

School Accountability Update

Fall 2006 – Summer 2007

Overview of Bulletin 111 Changes

Preliminary Release SPS Component Changes

• Growth SPS• Baseline SPS

Subgroup Component Changes Label Changes SI/AA Changes Disaster Accountability

Schools Included in Preliminary Accountability Release (Aug. 1)For 2007, schools identified as: Failing the Subgroup Component

based on spring 2006 test results, or

Failing the SPS Component based on the 2007 Baseline SPS; or

Failing the SPS Component based on the 2006 Baseline SPS; or

Being in AUS or SCF (any level) in academic year 2006-07

Bulletin 111, Section 301

SPS Component Changes

Inclusion of Students in the SPS

As in the past two years of Accountability releases, only students who have been in a district for a Full Academic Year (Oct. enrollment and time of testing) will count in the school’s SPS Assessment Index.


2007 Growth SPS Will use assessment data from

2007 and attendance and dropout data from 2006

Calculated using• LEAP/GEE, iLEAP, LAA 1, and LAA 2

test data

•Attendance data

•Dropout data


Assessment Index will use achievement levels from each test converted to index points

LEAP/GEE/iLEAP•Advanced = 200 points

•Mastery = 150 points

•Basic = 100 points

•Approaching Basic = 50 points

•Unsatisfactory = 0 points

2007 Growth SPS


2007 Growth SPS LAA 1 Accountability Conversion

• Average of 4 State-specified skill levels (0-5) converted to an index and included in the SPS and Subgroup % Proficient Calculations


LAA 1 Raw Score

Level Assessment Points

0.00-0.49 Unsatisfactory 0

0.50-2.49 Approaching Basic

50

2.50-3.49 Basic 100

3.50-4.49 Mastery 150

4.50-5.00 Advanced 200

2007 Growth SPS LAA 2 Accountability Achievement

Levels• Grades 4-11 included in the Growth SPS



Basic 100

Approaching Basic

75

Foundational 50

Pre-Foundational 0

2007 Growth SPS – K-8 Two or three Indexes

•Assessment Index 90% weight

• Attendance Index 10% weight for schools with grades K-6 5% weight for schools with grades 7 and 8

•Dropout Index 5% weight for schools with grades 7 and 8


2007 Growth SPS – K-8 Assessment Index Grade – Subject weighting

Grade

ELA Math

Science

Soc. Stud.

3rd 2 1 ½ ½4th 2 2 1 15th 1 1 1 16th 1 1 1 17th 1 1 1 18th 2 2 1 1


Spring Incentive Points – K-8 As in 2005 and 2006, if during

2007 spring testing, a repeating 4th grader or an Option I 8th grader scores at a higher achievement level on a LEAP test, the school shall receive 50 incentive points per subject improved


Summer Incentive Points – K-8 For the 2007 accountability results,

if during the 2006 summer school, a 4th or 8th grade student earns a score at a higher achievement level than the previous spring, the school that the student attended in the spring will receive 50 incentive points per subject improved


2007 Growth SPS – K-8 Assessment Index Calculation

• Sum index points and incentive points for each test unit

• Multiply each sum times its appropriate grade-subject weight

• Sum the weighted index points

• Sum the grade-subject weights of each testing unit

• Divide sum of weighted points by sum of the grade-subject weights


2007 Growth SPS – High Schools

Three Indexes •Assessment Index

90% weight

• Attendance Index 5% weight

•Dropout Index 5% weight


2007 Growth SPS – High Schools Assessment Index Weights

Grade

ELA Math Sci. Soc. Stud

9th 1 110th 1.25 1.2511th 1.25 1.25



As in past years, the Assessment Index will continue to be adjusted by a dropout adjustment factor based upon a goal of no more than 4% dropouts•For the 2006 Growth SPS the

expectation was no more than 7% dropouts


Option II 8th Grade Incentive Points

Due to the change in High Stakes testing policy, Option II 8th graders and the incentive points associated with these students no longer exist



Assessment Index Calculation•Multiply each test unit index points times

its appropriate grade-subject weight and the appropriate dropout adjustment

•Sum weighted points

•Sum grade-subject weights of each testing unit

•Divide sum of weighted points by sum of the grade-subject weights


2007 Growth SPS - Combo Schools Assessment Index calculated using a

weighted average of the K-8 and 9-12 Assessment Indexes•K-8 portion weighted by the number of

test units from spring tests in grades 3-8

•9-12 portion weighted by the number of test units from spring tests in grades 9-11


Dropout Documentation Required

Documentation is required for any exit code used on a student who does not count as a dropout•Example: Exit to private school, Exit

out of state, etc.


2007 Growth SPS - Combo Schools Attendance Index calculated using a

weighted average of K-8 and 9-12 Attendance Indexes• K-8 portion weighted by the number of

students in grades K-8• 9-12 portion weighted by the number of

students in grades 9-12 Dropout Index calculated using a

weighted average of K-8 and 9-12 Dropout Indexes• K-8 portion weighted by the number of

students in grades 7and 8• 9-12 portion weighted by the number of

students in grades 9-12Bulletin 111, Sections 301, 511 and 513

2007 Growth SPS

The LAA 1 scores will be used in the 2006-07 Growth SPS but not for the 2006-07 Baseline SPS due to changes being made to the LAA 1.


2007 Baseline SPS LAA 2 Accountability Achievement Levels

• Grades 4-11 for 2007 included • Grade 4, 8, 10 ELA and math and grade 11

science and Social Studies for 2006 included



Basic 100

Approaching Basic

75

Foundational 50

Pre-Foundational 0

2007 Baseline SPS – K-8 Schools

Calculated in the same manner as the 2006 Baseline SPS for K-8 schools but will include two years (2005-06 and 2006-07) of assessment data


2007 Baseline SPS – High Schools

Calculated using two indexes•Assessment Index (70% weight)

•Graduation Index (30% weight)



Assessment Index will use the same tests and subject-grade weighting as the 2007 Growth SPS, but will incorporate two years of testing data (Spring ’06 and Spring ’07)



Graduation Index cohort definition• All students entering as first-time freshmen

• Tracked for four years

• Students who transfer into the school from outside the LEA on or before October 1 of their 11th grade year will be added to the cohort

• Students who transfer into the school from within the district on or before October 1 of their 12th grade year will be added to the cohort

Bulletin 111, Sections 601-603


Graduation Index cohort definition (continued)•Early graduates will be included with what

would have been their four-year cohort

•Students with Disabilities whose IEPs state that they will take longer than 4 years to graduate will be added to the cohort with which they graduate, provided they are less than 22 years old at the beginning of the academic year

•Legitimate leavers are taken out of the cohort

Bulletin 111, Sections 601-603


Graduation Index point values


Student Result PointsAcademic Endorsement 180

Tops Opportunity Award OR Career Tech Endorsement

160

BESE approved Industry Based Certification ORTops Tech and Dual Enrollment ORTops Tech and Articulated Credit

140

Regular HS Diploma 120

GED 90

Skills Certificate/Certificate of Achievement

60

Attendee 30

Dropout 0

2007 Baseline SPS – Combo Schools

Calculated using a weighted average of the K-8 and 9-12 School Performance Scores• K-8 portion weighted by the number of eligible

spring testers in grades 3-8

• 9-12 portion weighted by the number of eligible spring testers in grades 9-11 plus the number of members of the cohort used as the denominator in the Graduation Index calculation


Inclusion of Schools for 2007 (and Beyond)

To receive a 2007 Growth SPS, a school must have at least 40 testing units in any combination of LEAP/GEE, iLEAP, LAA 1 or LAA 2

To receive a 2007 Baseline SPS, a school must have at least 80 units in any combination of LEAP/GEE, iLEAP, LAA 1, LAA 2 or Graduation Index cohort membership• Each Grad Index cohort member will count as 4

units for this determination


Pairing and Sharing Data Pairing data will no longer be

necessary For the 2007 Growth SPS and the

2007 Baseline SPS, schools that have no testing grade will share one grade of testing data from a school into which its students feed


Pairing and Sharing Data Any school enrolling only 12th grade

students will share data with a school or schools containing grades 9-11 from which the majority of its students are sent•Used to define the school’s cohort for

the Graduation Index

•SPS will be based solely on the school’s Graduation Index


Pairing and Sharing Data Any school with a K-2 and 9-12

configuration will receive an SPS based solely upon the 9-12 data


Subgroup Component Changes

Subgroup Component – Inclusion of Students

In 2007, the Subgroup Component % Proficiencies will use test (LEAP, GEE, iLEAP, LAA 1 and LAA 2 tests) results from ELA and math for grades 3-8 and grade 10 for both the % Proficiency AMO analysis and Safe Harbor decrease in % Non-Proficiency analysis

Bulletin 111, Sections 701 and 707

Subgroup Component - 2007 Additional Academic Indicator For schools with a 12th grade, the 2007

Subgroup Component analysis will include a cohort Graduation Rate to replace the Non-Dropout Rate as the school Additional Academic Indicator•The cohort for this Graduation Rate is

defined in the same way as the cohort for the Graduation Index

For 2007 only, the Safe Harbor AAI growth will continue to use non-dropout ratesBulletin 111, Section 701

Label and RemedyChanges

2007 Growth Labels Schools with a Performance Label

of Three Stars and a Baseline SPS > 105 will not receive a negative Growth Label•In 2005, the “bar” was 100


2007 Growth Labels Exemplary and Recognized Academic

Growth Criteria change•No longer calculating a full Subgroup

Performance Score (GPS) for all subgroups•Calculating a weighted Subgroup

Assessment Index (SAI) for the Economically Disadvantaged and Students with Disabilities subgroups

Assessment Index with grade-subject weighting for the students in each of these subgroups


2007 Growth Labels Exemplary and Recognized

Academic Growth Criteria change•For Exemplary Academic Growth

(EAG), a school must Make its Growth Target, and Economically Disadvantaged and

Students with Disabilities SAI must grow by at least 2 points, and

The school must not be in AUS or SCF


2007 Growth Labels Exemplary and Recognized

Academic Growth Criteria change•For Recognized Academic Growth

(RAG), a school must Make its Growth Target, but Economically Disadvantaged and

Students with Disabilities SAI does not grow by at least 2 points, and/or

The school is in AUS and/or SCF


Academically Unacceptable Schools/Subgroup Component Failure/Academic Assistance Changes

Academically Unacceptable School (AUS) Status A school with a Baseline SPS of

less than 60.0 enters AUS 1 if the school was not labeled AUS the previous year

Schools progress to more serious levels of AUS based on the number of consecutive years a school has been labeled AUS.


Academically Unacceptable School (AUS) Status In 2007-08, all schools labeled AUS

shall implement remedies/sanctions based on the number of years they have been labeled AUS.

Schools exit Academically Unacceptable School status when their Baseline SPS are 60.0 or greater.


Waiver of AUS Requirements For 2007 only, schools with a 12th

grade that are Academically Unacceptable, have a 2007 Baseline SPS <60, but had a 2006 Baseline SPS > 60 and a 2007 Growth SPS > 60, AUS requirements will be waived for the 2007-08 school year.


Waiver of AUS Requirements Schools identified as AUS with a

2006 and a 2007 Baseline SPS of 55.0 or greater and the Recognized Academic Growth label in 2007, for the 2007-08 school year will•Continue previous year’s

remedies/sanctions

•Implement no additional remedies/sanctions


AUS 1

Revised School Improvement Plan to open academic year; School Choice; Scholastic Audit; Write new SIP for remainder of the current year and the next 2 years based on the Audit

AUS 2

Implement SIP based on Scholastic Audit; Quarterly Implementation Reports; Title I schools offer Supplemental Educational Services; Non-Title I schools add a remedy from Corrective Action List; Eligible for Turn-Around Specialist

Academically Unacceptable Schools

Eligible for Recovery School District (RSD)

AUS 6+

Implement Reconstitution Plan AUS 6

Implement Reconstitution Plan AUS 5

Submit Reconstitution Plan (Type 5 Charter School Proposals submitted at the same time)

AUS 4

Academically Unacceptable Schools cont.

AUS 3

Add from Corrective Action List; Develop Reconstitution Plan; Eligible for DE

School Improvement Plan (SIP) RequirementsAs a result of AUS identification, new SIPs are intended to get the school out of trouble before AUS 4. Accordingly, in their revised SIPs, schools must plan to move to AUS 2 and AUS 3 over the following two years.


Subgroup Component Failure (SCF) Schools are now assigned Subgroup

Component Failure (SCF) labels independent of AUS labels

The labels are the same as those for federal NCLB Act: School Improvement (SI) 1(failing the same subject area for 2 consecutive years), SI 2 (3 years), Corrective Action (CA) 1 (4 years) and CA 2 (5 years), and Restructuring (6 years).


Subgroup Component Failure (SCF) Any school that fails to meet Subgroup

AYP in the same subject or in the Whole School AAI for two consecutive years enters Subgroup Component Failure 1 (SCF 1).

Schools in any level of Subgroup Component Failure remain at the same level if they pass Subgroup AYP for 1 year in the subject that caused them to originally enter.


Exit from Subgroup Component Failure (SCF)

A school exits SCF when it passes the Subgroup AYP for two consecutive years in the subject that caused them to originally enter Subgroup Component Failure.


SI 1 New 2-year SIP (must incorporate

remedies for SI 2); School Choice (for Title I schools only)

SI 2 Supplemental Ed. Services (Title I schools)

CA 1 Add a remedy from Corrective Action List; Eligible for Turnaround Specialist

CA 2 Scholastic Audit; Develop Alternate Governance Plan (Title I schools) or Focused Reconstitution Plan (non-Title I schools) based on the Scholastic Audit

Restructuring Alternate Governance (Title I); Implement Focused Recon. Plan (non-Title I)

Subgroup Component Failure

Entry into Academic Assistance

Beginning in 2007, schools with new Growth Targets greater than 7.0 points enter Academic Assistance level 1 (AA1).

♦In 2010, this value decreases to 6.0 points, and in 2013, to 5.0 points.


Movement in and Exit from Academic Assistance Schools move one level higher in

Academic Assistance when their newly calculated Growth Target exceeds 8.0 SPS points (a school in AA 1 moves to AA 2).

Schools exit Academic Assistance when their new Growth Targets are 5.0 or fewer points.

Schools remain at the same level of Academic Assistance when they do not advance or exit Academic Assistance.


Waivers from AA Status Districts may submit requests to

the State Superintendent of Education for waivers from AA status if:

1.The total number of Academically Unacceptable Schools (AUS), schools in Subgroup Component Failure, and schools in Academic Assistance exceeds 30% of the non-alternative schools in the district.


Waivers from AA Status Waiver requests based on this

30% limit must be for individual schools and can only serve as a means to establish a reasonable number of schools on which to focus resources.


Waivers from AA Status Districts may also submit requests to the State Superintendent of Education for waivers from AA status if:

2. The school or schools for which a district is requesting waivers implemented reforms or innovations that should show substantially improved student achievement the following year.


Waivers from AA StatusAny waiver request based on #2 must

be accompanied by documentation that shows implementation of the reforms/innovations in the previous year.

The documentation must include classroom observations. A school cannot receive a waiver for 2 consecutive years based on #2.

SPS Component Disaster Policy

Bulletin 111, Chapter 45

New School

Elementary

Disaster year – no scores released

Year 1 (2007) – Assessment Index only – no labels assigned

Year 2 (2008) – Baseline SPS – Performance Labels

Year 3 (2009) – Fully Accountable


Disaster Accountability

New School

High School

The cohort to calculate the Graduation Index must be re-established.



New School

High School

Disaster Year – no scores released

Year 1 (2007) – Assessment Index only – no labels assigned

Year 2 (2008) – Baseline Assessment Index – Performance Labels

Year 3 (2009) – Fully Accountable as a 9-11 school (Assessment Index only)



New School

High School

Year 5 (2011) – Graduation Index calculated, Fully Accountable



Subgroup Component - Disaster

The displaced students will not be considered a separate subgroup for the 2006-07 academic year


Additional Information

Displaced students will not be counted as dropouts in their receiving schools if they drop out prior to the first day of school the following academic year.



Where to get:

Current Bulletin 111 Policy (and all bulletins)http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/bese/1041.html

Proposals passed by BESE for Notice of Intent (this is for all agencies in the state)http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/register.htm

http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/bese/1041.html

http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/register.htm

http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/register.htm

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Documents

School Accountability Update Fall 2006 – Summer 2007