[SE-Dir] FW: OSL&P: Extended Assessment and 11th grade

[ALLRAN Laura]

TO:       All District and ESD Special Education Directors

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Nancy Latini, PhD
Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships
______________________________________________
October 5, 2010

RE:  Testing students with the Extended Assessment in the 11th grade for this school year

Due to the recent change in the high school assessment accountability year from 10th grade to 11th grade (see memo #011-2009-10 dated 3/3/10 http://www.ode.state.or.us/news/announcements/announcement.aspx?=5568), all students must now take their high school statewide assessment by 11th grade or their 3rd year in High School.

Similar to the requirement for students taking the general education assessment, students who took and met or exceeded the alternate achievement standard on the statewide Extended Assessment in 10th grade (last year) will not need to retake the Extended Assessment this year. However, any students who did not meet the alternate achievement assessment standard in 10th grade will need to take the assessment again this year in their 11th grade year (2010-2011) in order to be counted as participants for state accountability purposes. For students with IEPs, any decision to retest (or to consider retesting) will require revisiting the student’s IEP to ensure the IEP team’s decision has been adequately recorded.

Please note that this policy applies only to this year given the change in the year of accountability.  In subsequent years, eligible High School students will take the Extended Assessment only in their 11th grade year or their 3rd year in high school.

For questions related to this topic, please contact Dianna.Carrizales at state.or.us<mailto:Dianna.Carrizales at state.or.us>.

If you have any difficulty opening the above link, please contact Laura Allran at laura.allran at state.or.us<mailto:laura.allran at state.or.us>  or 503-947-5674.

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