State SELPA Directors

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State SELPA Directors
May 5, 2006Standards and Assessment Division
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California High School Exit Examination
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Current Status

• CAHSEE requirement in place for the Class of 2006
  and beyond
• Local Waiver
• One-Year Exemption (Senate Bill 517)

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Options for Seniors

• Remedial Instruction Program
• Additional year(s) in public high school
• Public school independent study program
• Public charter school
• Adult education program
• Community college
• CHSPE
• GED

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Superintendent SponsoredPending Legislation

• AB 2040
• Addition of summer and Saturday administrations
• AB 2532
• Funding of students who are preparing to take
  CAHSEE through adult education
• AB 2163
• Lift caps on independent study for seniors who
  havent passed CAHSEE

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Superintendent SponsoredPending Legislation
(continued)

• SB 1383
• provides eligibility for Cal Grants to students
  who are financially eligible to qualify, meet all
  other graduation requirements, and have at least
  a 2.0 GPA, but have not passed the CAHSEE

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Intensive Instruction Funding

• AB 128 last year
• 40 million in the proposed budget to fund
  intensive instruction
• Increase of 20 million from last year
• Budget committees looking at inclusion of special
  education students

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Summer Administration

• July 25-26
• Results will be provided to districts no later
  than October 1
• Pending funding, the summer administration will
  be an additional administration and will not
  replace a current administration

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Saturday Administration

• December 2, 2006 December 9, 2006
• Pending funding, a Saturday administration would
  be an additional administration and would not
  replace a current administration
• Adult education students as well as students in
  alternative settings

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Local Waiver Process

• Education Code Section 60851(c) explains the
  waiver process in detail.
• At the request of the students parent or
  guardian, a school principal must submit to the
  local school board a request for a waiver of the
  requirement to pass the part(s) of the CAHSEE on
  which a modification was used and the equivalent
  of a passing score was earned.

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Local Waiver Process(Continued)

• For the local board to waive the CAHSEE
  requirement, the principal must certify the pupil
  has
• (1) An IEP or Section 504 Plan that requires the
  modifications to be provided to the pupil when
  taking the CAHSEE.
• (2) Completion, or in the process of completion,
  of high school-level coursework sufficient to
  have attained the skills and knowledge otherwise
  needed to pass the CAHSEE.
• (3) A score report showing that the student
  received the equivalent of a passing score on
  the CAHSEE while using a modification.

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Senate Bill (SB) 517One-year Exemption

• Chapman settlement law
• Signed by Governor on January 30, 2006
• Takes effect immediately
• Repealed December 31, 2006
• Education Code 60852.3 Students with
  disabilities who have not passed the CAHSEE, or
  who have not received the local waiver to satisfy
  the requirement to pass, are exempt in 2006, if
  they meet all the following criteria.

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Exemption Criteria

• Students with disabilities on track to graduate
  in 2006 who have an IEP or Section 504 plan dated
  July 1, 2005 or earlier
• Attempted to test at least twice since grade 10
  once in grade 12
• Tested using accommodations or modifications, if
  any, specified in IEP or Section 504 plan

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Exemption Criteria (continued)

• Received CAHSEE remediation or supplemental
  instruction through school, private tutor, or
  other means, and took the CAHSEE at least once
  following remediation OR if not,
• School district or state special school indicates
  failure to provide CAHSEE remediation or
  supplemental instruction
• Written acknowledgment by student or parent, if
  minor entitled to free appropriate public
  education

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State Board Review

• School district or state special school that
  fails to grant a diploma under Education Code
  60852.3
• Must submit documentation to SBE within 15 days
  of determining student does not meet eligibility
  criteria
• SBE to review by next meeting or within 30 days

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ExemptionReport to SSPI

• School district or state special school shall
  report
• Procedure used to implement Education Code
  Section 60852.3
• Number of students granted a diploma given the
  exemption criteria
• Any additional information deemed appropriate by
  CDE

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Collection of DataEmergency Regulations

• Specify data for analysis of local waiver process
• Data required to be submitted to CDE by July 31
  of each year for local waiver
• One-time data collection for SB 517 Exemption
• http//www.cde.ca.gov/re/lr/rr/documents/emercahse
  eregs1.doc

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Emergency Regulations

• Report by July 1, 2006 the following data to CDE
  on students with disabilities who might be
  eligible for the exemption
• Primary disability
• Percent of time in general education
• Anticipated graduation date
• Whether student satisfied all other graduation
  requirements
• Month and year of each attempt to pass with
  accommodations or modifications, if any

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Emergency Regulations(continued)

• Type of remedial or supplemental instruction
• Month and year of each attempt to pass after
  remedial or supplemental instruction
• Date acknowledged in writing of entitlement to
  free appropriate public education
• Whether student met criteria for exemption
• Whether student received diploma

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Class of 2006 Update

• As of February, 89 of the class of 2006 passed
  both parts
• Prior to the February administration, 14,668
  students with disabilities had satisfied the
  requirement
• Since the fall administrations, 4,694 students
  with disabilities have additionally satisfied the
  requirement
• Cumulatively, 19,362 students with disabilities
  have satisfied the requirement

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CAHSEE Information

• Contact CAHSEE Office
• Email CAHSEE_at_cde.ca.gov
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• CDE Web site
• http//www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs

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Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program

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Program Components

• The STAR Program components
• California Standards Tests (CSTs)
• California Achievement Tests, Sixth Edition
  Survey (CAT/6 Survey)
• California Alternate Performance Assessment
  (CAPA)
• California Modified Assessment (CMA) (in
  development)
• Aprenda La prueba de logros en espanol, Tercera
  edicion (Aprenda 3) (New this year)

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CAPA Overview

• A performance-based assessment
• Related to a subset of Californias Content
  Standards
• Used to assess students with significant
  cognitive disabilities who are unable to take the
  CSTs and CAT/6 Survey

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CAPA Update

• Originally developed by Special Education
  Division to comply with IDEA
• Because part of accountability, must also comply
  with NCLB
• Revised CAPA blueprints adopted by SBE March 2006
• Focused on strengthening link between items and
  grade level content standards
• Greater access to assessment

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NCLB Flexibility

• NCLB allowed states additional flexibility to
  develop an alternate assessment based on modified
  achievement standards for students with
  disabilities
• Federal regulations for standards-based tests
  based on modified achievement standards have not
  been finalized

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CMA Overview

• CMA will include
• ELA and math for grades 2-11
• Science for grades 5, 8, and 10
• Intended to assess students with disabilities who
  have a higher cognitive level than CAPA but need
  assistance to access grade-level curriculum

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CMA Update

• Criteria will be developed to help determine who
  should take CMA
• Blueprints are under development and will be
  brought to SBE for adoption.
• Limited field testing expected in late 2007

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Contacts

• CDE STAR Unit
• Telephone [phone]
• FAX [phone]
• E-Mail star_at_cde.ca.gov
• ETS STAR Technical Assistance Center
• Telephone [phone]
• E-mail star_at_ets.org

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Questions