1. State Board of Education Meeting Update May 11-12, 2016
Riverside County Regional Assessment Network
May 27, 2016

2. Accountability Report to SBE Item 30
Superintendent's Advisory Task Force on Accountability and Continuous Improvement

3. Accountability Report to SBE Item 30 (Cont.)
Major Accountability Themes

4. Accountability Report to SBE Item 30 (Cont.)
Recommended Accountability Structure

5. Accountability Report to SBE Item 30 (Cont.)
Recommended Accountability:
State Required Indicators
CAASPP (SBAC) ELA and Math Scores
4-Year Cohort Graduation Rate
English Learner progress progress toward language acquisition
Growth Measure
Suspensions/expulsions
Chronic absenteeism
Statewide school climate survey
College and Career readiness indicator

6. Accountability Report to SBE Item 30 (Cont.)
Recommended Accountability:
State Reported Indicators
Students completing A-G Requirements
Approved CTE course sequence completed
Students meeting college standard on AP/IB/dual credit coursework
Physical fitness
Science Assessment Results
Attendance
Student/teacher/parent surveys for measuring school climate
Administrator and teacher qualifications
School Facilities Quality
Access to the Curriculum
Access to the Full Curriculum

7. Accountability Report to SBE Item 30 (Cont.)
Recommended Accountability:
State Provides Optional Tools to LEAs and Schools
Locally selected, developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate observational kindergarten readiness assessments
Classroom embedded, authentic performance assessments
Social-emotional learning indicators
Parent Engagement

8. Accountability Report to SBE Item 30 (Cont.)
Recommended Accountability:
Locally Determined Indicators
Other LCAP indicators for state and local priorities
Other locally designed indicators
Districts would not expected to allocate resources equally to indicators but to select strategic goals and make resource associated with those indicators.

9. Accountability Report to SBE Item 2
The SBE made several decisions on May 11, 2016 regarding the key indicators for the evaluation rubric, which will also be used for the state and federal accountability system (See handout titled “Overall Accountability SBE Graph”).

10. Accountability Report to SBE Item 2 (Cont.)
Overall Accountability Illustration

11. Accountability Report to SBE Item 2 (Cont.)
The SBE approved a design for the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) evaluation rubrics that include the following key indicators:
Student test scores on English Language Arts/Literacy (ELA) and Math, including a measure of individual student growth for grades 3-8, when feasible;
Results on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) assessment, when available;
Progress of English learners (ELs) toward English language proficiency;
High school graduation rate; and
Measures of student engagement, including suspension rates by grade span and chronic absenteeism, when available.
A methodology for calculating performance by combining outcome (status) and improvement (change) for the key indicators in order to differentiate performance at the local educational agencies (LEAs) and school levels, and for student subgroups. 

12. Accountability Report to SBE Item 2 (Cont.)
The SBE also approved the following:
A methodology for calculating performance by combining outcome (status) and improvement (change) for the key indicators in order to differentiate performance at the local educational agencies (LEAs) and school levels, and for student subgroups. 
2. A summary data display for performance on all LCFF Priority Areas for LEAs and schools that prominently shows areas where there are significant disparities in performance for any student subgroups. (See draft displays on the next three slides.)

13. Accountability Report to SBE Item 2 (Cont.)
The SBE also approved the following:
3. Directed staff to provide an update at the July 2016 SBE meeting, options for incorporating the following indicators into the overall LCFF evaluation rubric design:
College and Career Readiness Measures
A composite measure of EL language proficiency, which includes language acquisition, reclassification, and long term ELs.
Local climate surveys, including identification of any items from the California Healthy Kids Survey that could be adapted for use as part of the LCFF evaluation rubrics.

14. Accountability – Unofficial Summary Displays
Draft Key Indicator Illustration 1

15. Accountability – Unofficial Summary Displays
Draft Key Indicator Illustration 2

16. Accountability – Unofficial Summary Displays
Draft Key Indicator Illustration 3

17. English Language Proficiency Assessments for California - SBE Item 1
The State Board of Education approved the ELPAC regulations development process. Features include the following:
45 day public comment period began
Testing window would be February 1 through May 31
Paper and Pencil-based Assessments
Operational summative assessment start spring 2018
Operational initial assessments start July 1, 2018
Parents notified before intial assessment administered
LEAs have 10 calendar days to send ELPAC results to requesting LEA
Corrections Permitted (e.g., initially identified as EL but the student is not an EL student then that can be corrected)
If parents indicate only English on the Home Language Survey but the LEA has evidence that the student needs language support, then the support can be provided.

18. LCAP Templet and ESSA - SBE Items 3, 5, and 6
LCAP Templet – SBE Item 3 Directed CDE staff to proceed with developing a revised template. ESSA Update – SBE Item 5 General Information – No Action ESSA Transition Plan – SBE Item 6 The CDE recommends that the SBE approve the Title I, Part A Transition Plan for SES, Choice, and the related notice to parents for the 2016–17 school year. The CDE also recommends that the SBE approve to eliminate the SES application cycle, discontinue the SBE Approved Provider List for the 2016–18 school years, and start the process of repealing all California Code of Regulations, Title 5 (5 CCR) for SES. With this approval, all pending application reviews and appeals of the SES program, as defined in 5 CCR Section , will no longer proceed and will be terminated.

19. California Alternate Assessment - SBE Item 7
State Board of Education approved the following: 1. California Alternate Assessment Performance Level Descriptors 2. CAA Student Score Report

20. Science Waiver - SBE Item 8
The CDE recommended and the SBE approved the elimination of assessments based on the 1998 Science Content Standards assessments which includes the California Standards Tests (CSTs), California Modified Assessment (CMA), and California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA) and delegated the authority to the SBE President, in consultation with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI), to submit a letter to the U.S. Department of Education requesting federal waiver authority to not double test or report individual student scores for the new CA NGSS summative assessments while conducting pilot testing and field testing, which is consistent with previous authority granted to California when implementing the new English language arts/literacy and mathematics assessments. The CDE recommended and the SBE authorized the CDE, with approval of the SBE Executive Director, to make necessary changes to the current CAASPP contract with ETS, without a change to the total contract amount to implement the transition to CA NGSS.

21. Questions