La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XI-3501

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XI-3501 - Alternative Education [Formerly LAC 28:LXXXIII.3501]

A. Districts must provide an alternative education placement for students who are expelled or who have been suspended for more than 10 consecutive schools days. Districts must either operate an alternative education program or school (direct-run or charter), or enter into an agreement with an education service provider to run a program or school.

B. Alternative education schools and programs must be approved by BESE. Classifications must be submitted annually to the LDE no later than March 15 and cannot be changed until the following year.

C. Alternative education school and program accountability:

1. addresses student behavior, dropout prevention, dropout recovery, and/or credit recovery through alternative educational placements;

2. serve students self-selecting due to extenuating personal circumstances; and

3. does not exists only for students who are academically advanced, gifted, talented, or pursuing specific areas of study (arts, engineering, medical, technical, etc.).

D. Final accountability results shall be issued by the fall semester of each year and all accountability reports will reflect the configuration of the alternative school as it existed the prior spring semester.

E. A combination alternative school is a school with a grade configuration that includes a combination from both categories of schools, K-8 and 9-12, and as such will receive a score from a weighted average of the SPS from the K-8 grades and the SPS from the 9-12 grades.

1. The K-8 SPS will be weighted by the number of students eligible to test during the spring test administration.

2. The 9-12 SPS will be weighted by the sum of assessment units from students who are initial testers for high school LEAP 2025 plus the students eligible to take the ACT. Students with high school LEAP 2025 and ACT will count only one time.

F. For alternative schools with configurations that include ninth through eleventh grades, but do not have a twelfth grade, the school performance score will consist of the indices available.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XI-3501

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 39:472 (March 2013), Amended LR 45396 (3/1/2019), Amended LR 501633 (11/1/2024).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6, 17:10.1, 17:416, and 17:416.2.