4 AAC 06.895 - Report card to the public
(a) Each public
school and district in the state shall comply with the reporting requirements
of
AS
14.03.120 and the requirements of this
section. Each school shall prepare a school report, to be entitled School
Report Card to the Public, following requirements provided by the department.
Each district shall prepare a district report, to be entitled School District
Report Card to the Public, following requirements provided by the
department.
(b) A school shall
disseminate its School Report Card to the Public as required
under
AS
14.03.120(d). A district
shall disseminate its School District Report Card to the
Public and the School Report Card to the Public for each school in the
district by providing required data to the department, posting the report cards
on the Internet if the district maintains a website, and any other means of
distribution the district chooses, not later than 30 days after the department
has made all necessary data available to districts. Each district shall ensure
that parents of students in each school in the district are notified of the
location and availability of the School Report card and District Report
Card to the Public. The report required under this section shall be
written in a uniform and understandable manner, and, to the extent practicable,
be in a language that the parent can understand.
(c) The School Report Card to the
Public must contain the number of students enrolled in the school, the
Title I status of the school, and must provide the following information on
accreditation:
(1) whether the school is
accredited;
(2) if the school is
accredited, the
(A) date of
accreditation;
(B) name of the
accrediting organization; and
(C)
level of accreditation awarded by the accrediting organization for the year of
the report.
(d) The School Report Card to the
Public must include the following information for all students
enrolled in the school, and the School District Report Card to the
Public must include the following information for all students
enrolled in the district:
(1) For purposes of
accountability under
4 AAC
06.812,
4 AAC
06.815,
4 AAC
06.821, and
4 AAC
06.826, for all students and disaggregated by each
subgroup of students described in
4 AAC 06.830,
(A) the number and percentage of full
-academic-year students tested who achieved the proficient or advanced
achievement level described in
4 AAC
06.739 or in
4
AAC 06.775(b) on the English language
arts and mathematics assessments;
(B) if the participation rate as described in
4 AAC 06.820 is
less than 95 percent, the number and percentage of 95 percent of the students
enrolled on the first day of testing that achieved the proficient or advanced
achievement level described in
4 AAC
06.739 or in
4
AAC 06.775(b) on the English language
arts and mathematics assessments; and
(C) the number and percentage of students
tested and not tested based on the number of full academic year students
enrolled in tested grades on the first day of testing.
(2) For purposes of reporting for all
students and disaggregated by each subgroup of students described in
4 AAC 06.830, gender,
migrant status, homeless status, status as a child in foster care, and status
as a student with a parent who is a member of the Armed Forces on active duty,
(A) the number and percentage of students
tested who achieved each achievement level described in
4 AAC
06.739 on English language arts, mathematics, and
science;
(B) if the participation
rate as described in
4 AAC 06.820 is
less than 95 percent, the number and percentage of 95 percent of the students
enrolled on the first day of testing that achieved each achievement level
described in
4 AAC
06.739 on English language arts, mathematics, and
science;
(C) the number and
percentage of students tested and not tested based on the number of students
enrolled in tested grades on the first day of testing; and
(D) for a
(i) district report card, a comparison
between the number and percentage of students at each achievement level for the
district with the number and percentage of students at each achievement level
for the state as a whole; and
(ii)
school report card, a comparison between the number and percentage of students
at each achievement level for the school with the number and percentage of
students at each achievement level for the district and the state as a
whole;
(3)
for purposes of accountability under
4 AAC
06.812 and
4 AAC
06.822, for all students and disaggregated by each of
the subgroups of students as defined in
4 AAC 06.830, the
number and percentage of students who made adequate growth in English language
arts and mathematics as described in
4 AAC
06.822; and for purposes of reporting, for subgroups
of homeless status, status as a child in foster care, and status as a student
with a parent who is a member of the Armed Forces on active duty, the number
and percentage of students who made adequate growth in English language arts
and mathematics as described in
4 AAC
06.822;
(4) for purposes of accountability under
4 AAC
06.812,
4 AAC
06.815, and
4 AAC
06.825, for all students and disaggregated by each of
the subgroups of students defined in
4 AAC 06.830, the
four-year and five-year graduation rate as defined in
4 AAC
06.825; and for purposes of reporting for subgroups of
homeless status and status as a child in foster care, the four-year and
five-year graduation rate as defined in
4 AAC
06.825;
(5) for purposes of accountability under
4 AAC
06.812,
4 AAC
06.815, and
4 AAC
06.823 the number and percentage of English learners
in grades 1 - 12 who met the target for making progress in learning English;
and for purposes of reporting, the number of English learners in grades K-12
achieving English language proficiency and meeting the exit criteria as defined
in
4 AAC
34.055(d);
(6) for purposes of accountability, for all
students and disaggregated by each of the subgroups of students, as defined in
4 AAC 06.830, the
number and percentage of students identified as not chronically absent as
described in
4 AAC
06.826(a) who were enrolled for at
least half the school term, and for purposes or reporting, the number and
percentage of students identified as chronically absent as described in
4 AAC
06.826(a) who were enrolled at least
ten days in the school term;
(7)
for purposes of accountability, for all students and disaggregated by each of
the subgroups of students as defined in
4 AAC 06.830, the
number and percentage of full -academic- year students tested in grade three
who achieved the proficient or advanced achievement level described in
4 AAC
06.739 on the English language assessment; if the
participation rate as described in
4 AAC 06.820 is
less than 95 percent, the number and percentage of 95 percent of the full
-academic- year -grade- three students enrolled on the first day of testing who
achieved the proficient or advanced achievement level described in
4 AAC
06.739 on the English language arts assessment; and
the number and percentage of grade three students tested and not tested based
on the number of full-academic- year students enrolled in tested grades on the
first day of testing;
(8) for
purposes of accountability under
4 AAC
06.815,
4 AAC
06.821,
4 AAC
06.823,
4 AAC
06.825 and for purposes of reporting, for all students
and disaggregated by each of the subgroups of students as defined in
4 AAC 06.830, a
comparison between the performance under sections (d)(1)(A) and (d)(1)(B) for
the school or district and the school's or district's and state's long-term
goals and measures of interim progress for that year as determined under
4 AAC
06.815, including a determination of whether the
school or district met the target as defined in
4 AAC
06.815(a)(3) for the all students
group and each subgroup;
(9) the
number and percentages of students with the most significant cognitive
disabilities who take an alternate assessment under
4
AAC 06.775(b), by grade and
subject;
(10) for the School
District Report Card to the Public, the most recent available academic
achievement results in grades four and eight on the state's national
assessments of educational progress reading and mathematics assessments under
4 AAC
06.710(3) compared to the national
results, including
(A) the percentage of
students at each achievement level reported in the aggregate; and
(B) the participation rates for students with
disabilities and for student who are English Learners.
(11) information submitted by the department
and each district in the state, in accordance with the Office for Civil Rights
data collection conducted pursuant to section 203(c)(1) of the
20 U.S.C.
3413(c)(1) Department of
Education Organization on
(A) rates of
in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, school-related
arrests, referrals to law enforcement, incidences of violence, including
bullying and harassment; and
(B)
the number and percentage of students enrolled in
(i) preschool programs; and
(ii) accelerated coursework to earn
postsecondary credit while still in high school, such as Advanced Placement and
International Baccalaureate courses and examinations, and dual or concurrent
enrollment programs.
(12) the professional qualifications of
teachers in the district and each school, including information (that shall be
presented in the aggregate and disaggregated by high-poverty compared to
low-poverty schools) on the number and percentage of
(A) inexperienced teachers, principals, and
other school leaders;
(B) teachers
teaching with emergency or provisional credentials;
(C) out of field teachers; and
(D) ineffective teachers.
(13) the per-pupil expenditures of
federal, state, and local funds, including actual personnel expenditures and
actual non-personnel expenditures of federal, state, and local funds,
disaggregated by source of funds, for each district and each school in the
district for the preceding fiscal year.
(14) where available, for each high school in
the district, and beginning with the report card prepared under this paragraph
for the 2017 - 2018 school year, the cohort rate in the aggregate, and
disaggregated for each subgroup of students defined in
4 AAC 06.830 at which
students who graduate from the high school enroll for the first academic year
that begins after the students' graduation:
(A) in programs of public postsecondary
education in the state; and
(B) if
data are available and to the extent practicable, in programs of private
postsecondary education in the state or programs of postsecondary education
outside the state.
(e) Each School and District Report Card to
the Public must contain
(1) a clear and
concise description of the state's accountability system as described in
4 AAC
06.812 - 826; and
(2) the methods and timeline for designating
schools for comprehensive support and improvement or targeted support and
improvement and for exiting the schools from those designations under
4 AAC
06.840. Each district report card must contain the
number, percentage, and names of all public schools in the district designated
for comprehensive support and improvement or targeted support and improvement
under
4 AAC
06.840. The School Report Card to the Public must
include information for the school, and the School District Report Card to the
Public must include information for all schools in the district, regarding
school designations and other indicators, as follows:
(A) the Alaska school performance system
score, if applicable, under
4 AAC
06.812 and the designation of each school in the
district under
4 AAC
06.840 and for districts, the number and percentage of
schools that have been designated for comprehensive support and improvement or
targeted support and improvement;
(B) whether a school in the district has been
designated persistently dangerous under
4 AAC
06.200;
(C) the attendance rate for all students and
for each subgroup under 4 A AC 06.830;
(D) the retention rate for students in grades
K-8;
(E) the dropout rate for
students in grades seven through twelve; and
(F) the rate of enrollment change due to
transfers.
(f) A report under this section may not
include the information otherwise required by law if the number of students in
a category is so small that the results would reveal personally identifiable
information about an individual student. Results of the state assessments may
not be reported if fewer than five students are tested.
(g) In providing the description of student,
parent, community, and business involvement in student learning, as required by
AS
14.03.120(d)(4), each school
shall state
(1) the number and percentage of
students responding to the teacher evaluation survey;
(2) the number and percentage of parents
responding to the teacher evaluation survey;
(3) the number of school-business or
interagency partnerships the school has entered into under a written
agreement;
(4) the average number
of volunteer-hours a week spent in the school by parents and other members of
the community;
(5) a narrative
description of the results of parental, community, or business involvement, as
identified by the school; and
(6)
any other information the school wishes to provide on this subject.
(h) Each school shall compute the
information required by
AS
14.03.120(d)(5) and this
section as follows:
(1) the attendance rate
is a fraction, expressed as a percent, the numerator of which is the aggregate
daily attendance during the regular school year, and the denominator of which
is the aggregate daily membership for the school year; the aggregate daily
attendance is the sum of the days present for all students when school is in
session during the school year; the aggregate daily membership is the sum of
the days present and absent for all students when school is in session during
the school year; in-service days are not included in the computation; for the
purposes of this paragraph, a student is considered present if physically
present at the school or engaged in a school activity even if the activity is
away from the school;
(2) for
kindergarten through grade eight, the retention rate is computed by dividing
the number of students being retained on the last day of school by the
membership on the last day of the school year;
(3) for grades 7-12, the dropout rate is a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number of students who have dropped out
in the current school year, and the denominator of which is the number of
students enrolled in grades 7 - 12 on October 1 of the current school
year;
(i) In providing
the information required by
AS
14.03.120(d)(6), each school
shall provide the information on student transfers into and out of the school
itself. Each school shall compute the information required by
AS
14.03.120(d)(6) as follows:
(1) the annual percent of enrollment change
is computed by taking the difference between the October 1 enrollment from the
current school year and the October 1 enrollment from the previous school year
and dividing by the October 1 enrollment from the previous school year, the
result being expressed as a percentage;
(2) the annual percent of enrollment change
due to student transfers is computed by subtracting from one the quotient
derived by dividing the number of students enrolled at least 170 days or the
number of student days in the approved school calendar, whichever is less, in
the school by the total number of students enrolled at least one day in the
school.
(j) In
preparing the comment summaries required by
AS
14.03.120(e) to be reported
to the department, each school shall state the number of persons commenting,
indicate whether comments are from students, parents, or other members of the
community, and succinctly set out the gist of the comments, both negative and
positive ones.
(k) In this section,
(1) "current school year" means the school
year for which the report card is made;
(2) "district" has the meaning given in
AS
14.17.990;
(3) "dropout" means an individual who was
enrolled in the district at some time during the school year whose enrollment
terminated; "dropout" does not include an individual who
(A) graduated from high school or completed a
state- or district-approved education program, as evidenced by receipt of a
secondary school diploma from school authorities;
(B) transferred to another public school
district, private school, or state- or district-approved education program that
terminates in a regular diploma;
(C) is temporarily absent due to
suspension;
(D) is temporarily
absent due to an illness or a medical condition; or
(E) died.
(4) "performance score" means the score
calculated under
4 AAC
06.812;
(5) "previous school year" means the school
year immediately before the school year for which the report is made;
(6) "school year" means the 12-month period
beginning July 1 of each year and ending June 30 of the following
year;
(7) "students from families
on active military duty" means students whose parents or guardians are on
active duty in the armed forces of the United States, the United States Coast
Guard, the Alaska National Guard, the Alaska Naval Militia, or the Alaska State
Defense Force.
(l) For
the purposes of
AS
14.03.120(d) and (e),
AS
14.03.123, and this section,
(1) "program" means an identifiable set of
educational services that a district delivers to students who are not enrolled
at a school facility to receive those educational services;
(2) "school" means an educational institution
operated by a district and administered as an independent unit within the
district, regardless of whether the school is housed in a facility separate
from other units that does not include an educational program within a
district, as designated by the district; and includes a correspondence school,
whether designated a program or a school.
Notes
Authority:AS 14.03.120
AS 14.03.123
AS 14.07.020
AS 14.07.060
AS 14.50.080
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