4 AAC 06.840 - Designations of schools
(a) The department
will annually designate schools for comprehensive support and improvement if:
(1) beginning in the fall of 2018, based on
data from the 2017 - 2018 school year, school receiving funding under
20 U.S.C.
6301-
6339 (Part A
of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) that; when ranked
according to the Alaska school performance system scores against other schools
receiving funding under 20 U.S.C. 6301-6339 (Part A of Title 1 of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act), represents the lowest live percent of
the scores;
(2) beginning in the
fall of 2018, based on data from the 2017-2018 school year a high school
serving grade 12 that has a four-year graduation rate of less than or equal to
66 2/3 percent, with a minimum of at least ten students in the graduation rate
adjusted cohort;
(3) beginning in
fall of 2021, a school designated for targeted support and improvement for the
same consistently under performing subgroup for the previous three consecutive
years.
(b) In
identifying schools for comprehensive support and improvement, the department
will ensure that the number of designated schools that are receiving funding
under
20 U.S.C.
6301-
6339 (Part A
of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) is at least five
percent of all schools in the state receiving funding under
20 U.S.C.
6301-
6339.
Schools designated for comprehensive support and improvement will maintain the
designation until the school meets one of the-following criteria in this
subsection. A school designated for comprehensive support and improvement based
on the lowest five percent of the Alaska school performance system scores keeps
that designation for three years. After three years, the school will be exited
from the designation of comprehensive support and improvement if the school no
longer meets the lowest five percent criteria for designation and if the
school's Alaska school performance system score has improved since the
comprehensive support and improvement designation. A school may also be exited
from the designation of comprehensive support and improvement if the school
meets the school's long-term goal or measures of interim progress for the all
students' group in academic achievement in English language arts and
mathematics, in the four-year graduation rate, and in English learner progress,
if applicable. A school designated for comprehensive support and improvement
based on a four-year graduation rate of less than or equal to 66 2/3 percent
will be exited from the designation of comprehensive support and improvement
when the school's graduation rate exceeds 66 2/3 percent.
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(c) The
department will designate a school annually for targeted support and
improvement if the school has not been designated for comprehensive support and
improvement but has one or more consistently under performing subgroups. The
department will determine a subgroup consistently under performing if the
Alaska school performance system score for that subgroup in a school is equal
to or less than the highest Alaska school performance system score of the
schools designated for comprehensive support and improvement under (4) of this
section based on the lowest performing five percent. Schools will be first
designated for targeted support and improvement in the fall of 2018, and will
be designated annually thereafter. A school designated for targeted support and
improvement will be exited from the designation of target support and
improvement when the Alaska school performance system scores for all subgroups
in the school indicate that the school has no consistently under performing
subgroups and the Alaska school performance system scores for the subgroups
that led to the initial designation have improved.
(d) The department will designate schools for
universal support annually if the school receives an Alaska school performance
system score and the school was not designated for comprehensive support and
improvement or targeted support and improvement.
(e) For a school that enrolls students only
in grades kindergarten, one or two, the department will report the Alaska
school performance system score and designation of the school that enrolls
students in grade three that receives the students from the school.
(f) For schools that do not receive
performance score under
4
AAC 06.812 the department will conduct a small school
performance review. The deparment will designate a school that does not receive
a performance system score under 4 AAC 4 AAc 06.812(d) and (e) with a small
schools designation. A small schools designation will include one of the
following:
(1) small school comprehensive
support and improvement;
(2) small
school targeted support and improvement; or
(3) small school universal support.
(g) In order to protect personally
identifiable student information under (f) of this section, the department will
conduct a small school performance review. For schools that do not receive
performance score under
4
AAC 06.812. The performance review will consider;
(1) the achievement of the school 's students
on the state standards-based assessments described in
4
AAC 06.737, including the distribution of the
students' scores among the achievement levels and whether or not the school is
meeting the long-term goals or measurements of interim progress under
4
AAC 06.815 and the participation rate under
4
AAC 06.820 in the assessments;
(5)
the performance of the school 's students on the applicable school quality and
student success indicators under 4 AAC 06.826;
(6) whether the school serves a unique
population of students; and
(7)
other information and data received during a desk audit , including the
consultation with the superintendent of the district regarding the extent to
which the school and district have already implemented effective evidence-based
instructional strategies at the school.
(h) A school that receives a designation for
small school comprehensive support and improvement or targeted support and
improvement will complete a comprehensive support and improvement plan under
4
AAC 06.864 or
4
AAC 06.868 that addresses the indicators applicable to
the the school . The department will conduct a small school performance review
annually. A school designated for small school comprehensive support and
improvement or for small school targeted support and improvement will exit the
designation immediately after the small school performance review indicates
that the school no longer requires the designation.
Notes
Authority: AS 14.03.123
AS 14.07.020
AS 14.07.060
AS 14.50.080
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