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USBE: State exceeds ESSA 1% cap for alternate assessments; 54 LEAs to submit justification letters
Summary
Utah State Board of Education staff told LEA data managers that the statewide alternate-assessment participation rate has risen above the 1% cap under ESSA. Fifty-four local education agencies will receive notification and must submit justification letters by January; monitoring and possible Title I conditions will follow.
Malia, a Utah State Board of Education staff member, told Local Education Agency (LEA) data managers that Utah exceeded the 1% alternate-assessment participation cap required under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and that 54 LEAs will be required to submit justification letters.
The state-level cap limits the percentage of students who may be assessed with an alternate assessment to 1%. Malia said the state does not impose an individual-LEA cap; instead, any LEA with a rate above 1% will be asked to justify its rate. "Those notification letters, if you're 1 of those 54 LEAs, are gonna be sent out here, sometime in November. And then you'll have a justification letter will be due in January," she…
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