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60641
. (a) The department shall ensure that local educational
agencies comply with each of the following requirements:
(1) The achievement tests provided for in Section 60640 are
scheduled to be administered to all pupils, inclusive of pupils
enrolled in charter schools and exclusive of pupils exempted pursuant
to Section 60640, during the period prescribed in subdivision (b) of
Section 60640.
(2) For assessments that produce valid individual pupil results,
the individual results of each pupil tested pursuant to Section 60640
shall be reported, in writing, to the parent or guardian of the
pupil. The report shall include a clear explanation of the purpose of
the test, the score of the pupil, and the intended use by the local
educational agency of the test score. This subdivision does not
require teachers or other local educational agency personnel to
prepare individualized explanations of the test score of each pupil.
It is the intent of the Legislature that nothing in this section
shall preclude a school or school district from meeting the reporting
requirement by the use of electronic media formats that secure the
confidentiality of the pupil and the pupil's results. State agencies
or local educational agencies shall not use a comparison resulting
from the scores and results of the California Assessment of Student
Performance and Progress (CAASPP) assessments and the assessment
scores and results from assessments that measured previously adopted
content standards.
(3) (A) For assessments that produce valid individual pupil
results, the individual results of each pupil tested pursuant to
Section 60640 also shall be reported to the school and teachers of a
pupil. The local educational agency shall include the test results of
a pupil in his or her pupil records. However, except as provided in
this section and Section 60607, personally identifiable pupil test
results only may be released with the permission of either the pupil'
s parent or guardian if the pupil is a minor, or the pupil if the
pupil has reached the age of majority or is emancipated.
(B) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) and pursuant to subdivision
(c) of Section 60607, a pupil or his or her parent or guardian may
authorize the release of individual pupil results to a postsecondary
educational institution for the purpose of credit, placement,
determination of readiness for college-level coursework, or
admission.
(4) The districtwide, school-level, and grade-level results of the
CAASPP in each of the grades designated pursuant to Section 60640,
but not the score or relative position of any individually
ascertainable pupil, shall be reported to the governing board of the
school district at a regularly scheduled meeting, and the countywide,
school-level, and grade-level results for classes and programs under
the jurisdiction of the county office of education shall be
similarly reported to the county board of education at a regularly
scheduled meeting.
(b) The state board shall adopt regulations that outline a
calendar for delivery and receipt of summative assessment results at
the pupil, school, grade, district, county, and state levels. The
calendar shall include delivery dates to the department and to local
educational agencies. The calendar for delivery shall provide for the
timely return of assessment results, and consider the amount of
paper-and-pencil administered assessments and number of items
requiring hand scoring. The calendar shall also ensure that
individual assessment results are reported to local educational
agencies within eight weeks of receipt by the contractor for scoring.
(c) Aggregated, disaggregated, or group scores or reports that
include the results of the CAASPP assessments, inclusive of the
reports developed pursuant to Section 60630, shall not be publicly
reported to any party other than the school or local educational
agency where the pupils were tested, if the aggregated,
disaggregated, or group scores or reports are comprised of 10 or
fewer individual pupil assessment results. Exclusive of the reports
developed pursuant to Section 60630, in no case shall any group score
or report be displayed that would deliberately or inadvertently make
the score or performance of any individual pupil or teacher
identifiable.
(d) The department shall ensure that pupils in grade 11, or
parents or legal guardians of those pupils, may request results from
grade 11 assessments administered as part of the CAASPP for the
purpose of determining credit, placement, or readiness for
college-level coursework be released to a postsecondary educational
institution.