RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 47 (HB 80) 2020 Second Extraordinary Session Charles Owen
Existing law provides for standards-based assessments of public school students for required
subjects. Provides for the use of assessment results as a measure of student growth for
various purposes, including the school and district accountability system, through which the
State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) calculates school and district
performance scores and assigns letter grades based on such scores. New law, for the 2020-
2021 school year, requires BESE to examine results and school-level test data and make such
allowances in calculating performance scores as it deems necessary and appropriate and
provides the following:
(1) Requires the state superintendent to report to the education committees relative to
results by May 30, 2021.
(2) Requires BESE to prepare a petition to U.S. Dept. of Education for a waiver relative
to issuing letter grades and submit it if the state superintendent deems that such
issuance would be detrimental to the state.
(3) Requires BESE and the superintendent to present a report to the education
committees regarding this decision by June 15, 2021.
Effective December 22, 2020.
(Adds R.S. 17:24.4(F)(1)(i); Repeals R.S. 17:24.4(F)(1)(g) and (h) and (2))


Statutes affected:
HB80 Original: 17:4(F)(1)
HB80 Engrossed: 17:4(F)(1)
HB80 Enrolled: 17:4(F)(1)
HB80 Act : 17:4(F)(1)