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State: 53 LEAs must justify exceedance of federal 1% alternate-assessment cap; four face disproportionality review
Summary
Utah education staff told local education agencies (LEAs) that 53 LEAs exceeded the federal 1% cap for alternate assessments and must submit justification letters by Jan. 5; four LEAs also must complete root-cause analyses on likely disproportionality across student subgroups.
Malia, a Utah State Board of Education (USBE) data staffer, told LEA data managers that the state exceeded the federal 1% cap on alternate assessments and that LEAs who exceed 1% must submit a formal justification letter by Jan. 5.
The justification must include current-year alternate-assessment projections — the count and percentage of students expected to complete alternate assessments in each subject — and supporting documentation uploaded to the Utah Program Improvement Planning System (UPIPs). “The justification letters are gonna be due by January 5,” Malia said.
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