La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CLXVII-509
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
Section CLXVII-509 - Performance Rating Calculations for Publicly-Funded SitesA. 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: 2. 5.25-5.99-high proficient;4. 3.0-4.49-approaching proficient;5. 1.0-2.99-unsatisfactoryE. 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 yearG. 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.La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CLXVII-509
Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 412587 (12/1/2015), Amended LR 421873 (11/1/2016), Amended LR 441442 (8/1/2018), Amended LR 451453 (10/1/2019), Amended LR 471286 (9/1/2021)., Amended LR 481010 (4/1/2022), Amended LR 491716 (10/1/2023).AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6 and 17:407.21 et seq.