703 KAR 5:060. Interim accountability model.

      RELATES TO: KRS 158.645, 158.6451, 158.6453, 158.6455

      STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 156.070, 158.6455

      NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 158.6455 requires the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate an administrative regulation to establish a formula for school accountability and a school improvement goal for each school for the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 school years. This administrative regulation establishes procedures for determining successful schools, school rewards, and classifications of schools applied as school performance judgments.

      Section 1. Interim Accountability Model (2006-2007, 2007-2008). (1) After consultation with and review by the National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability, the Kentucky Board of Education shall apply a statistical concordance model to establish accountability growth indices for the biennium ending in the 2007-2008 school year. Accepted statistical practices shall be applied.

      (2) A school’s adjusted accountability index for the biennium ending with the 2007-2008 school year shall be compared to its goal line reported in 2006-2007. If a school’s 2006-2008 biennium index equals or exceeds its 2006-2008 goal lines, the school shall be eligible to receive a reward if the school meets the dropout and novice criteria under KRS 158.6455.

      (3) If a school's accountability index falls below its assistance line reported in 2006-2007, a school shall be subject to the provisions of KRS 158.6455 and 703 KAR 5:120.

      (4) At the conclusion of the interim model, new baselines shall be generated from school and district nonadjusted average performance during the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 biennium.

      Section 2. Nonacademic Index Calculations. The values for attendance rate, successful transition to adult life, and graduation rate shall be the actual percentage reported. In the elementary and middle school levels, the values entered into formula calculations for retention rate and dropout rate shall be 100 minus the actual percentage calculated. Nonacademic data for a particular assessment year shall be calculated using the data from the previous school year. Nonacademic data shall be based on all grades within a school building generating appropriate data as follows:

      (1) Attendance, primary through grade twelve (12);

      (2) Retention rates, grades 4 through 8;

      (3) Dropout rates, grades 7 and 8;

      (4) Graduation rates, grades 9 through 12; and

      (5) Successful transition to adult life for the graduating students.

      Section 3. Alternate Assessments. Scores from alternate assessments shall be included in the academic indices so that the data from an alternate assessment completed by a student eligible to participate with an alternate assessment contributes the same weight to the academic component of the accountability index as would the data for a student participating in the regular components of the assessment program at the elementary, middle, or high school levels.

      Section 4. Schools Not Conforming to the Standard Grade Configuration. (1) If a school does not have grades end of primary/3, 4 and 5 at the elementary level, grades 6, 7 and 8 at the middle school level, or grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 at the high school level, the school shall be combined with the school or schools having the missing grade(s) its students previously attended or would subsequently attend, forming a single school accountability unit for both state and federal accountability purposes.

      Section 5. Schools Having More than One (1) Accountability Level. If a school has more than one (1) accountability level, the school’s accountability index shall be the average of the academic and nonacademic data for the school. (25 Ky.R. 2243; Am. 2603; eff. 6-7-99; 34 Ky.R. 2247; eff. 6-6-2008.)