Approving Amendments to the Virginia Consolidated State Application Accountability Plan as Permitted in Section 9401 of the Federal Law and the Amendments to the Consolidated State Application
Resolution Number 2005-4
January 19, 2005
The Board of Education approves amendments to the Virginia Consolidated State Application Accountability Plan as permitted in Section 9401 of the federal law and the proposed amendments to the Consolidated State Application, as follows:
- AYP: Targeting Choice and Supplemental Services (Critical Elements 1.6 and 4.1);
- AYP: Consecutive Years Same Subject and Same Subgroup (Critical Element 1.6);
- Reversing Order of School Improvement Sanctions (Critical Elements 1.6 and 4.1);
- AYP: Division Accountability (Critical Element 4.1);
- Use of Other Academic Indicator for Safe Harbor Only (Critical Elements 3.2, 6.1, and 8.1);
- Minimum “n” and Division Accountability (Critical Elements 5.5 and 10.2);
- First Score Requirement (Critical Element 3.2);
- Assessing Students with Disabilities (Critical Element 5.3);
- Inclusion of Limited English Proficient Students in State Assessments (Critical Element 5.4);
- Graduation Rate and Other Academic Indicator (Critical Element 7.1);
- Additional Requests for NCLB Policy Revisions to the English Language Proficiency Assessment: Exclusion of Kindergarten and First Grade Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students from Reading and Writing English Language Proficiency Assessment Requirement (Definition of LEP Cohort, in September 1, 2003, Submission, as amended on November 24, 2003, and May 26, 2004, p. 14); and
- Immigrant Children and Youth Funding Formula under Title III: Revision of Formula to Reduce State Reservation from 15 percent to 5 percent (Virginia Consolidated State Application, p.82, d.)
Thomas M. Jackson, Jr., President
Board of Education
Adopted in the Minutes of the Virginia Board of Education
January 19, 2005