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Action Item
DATE: Tuesday, March 1, 2011
TO: School Board Members
FROM: MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent
SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS
Approve Agreements for Technical Services for Test Administrators for the Spring 2011 Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment (CELLA) (Curriculum and Instruction Division)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment (CELLA) will be conducted March 8, 2011, through April 6, 2011, to approximately 25,000 K-12 English language learners at designated school sites.  The assessment is used to measure the growth of English language learners in English language skills needed to succeed in school.  CELLA is a listening, speaking, reading, and writing proficiency assessment published by Questar Assessment, Inc. that provides:  

  • Evidence of program accountability in accordance with Title III of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) which calls for schools and districts to meet state accountability objectives for increasing the English-language proficiency of English language learners
  • Data useful for charting student progress over time and, for the newly arrived students, charting progress over the first year
  • Information about the language proficiency levels of individual students that can be used in making decisions regarding placement into or exit from English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) programs
  • Diagnostically useful information about students' strengths and weaknesses in English (with as much specificity as possible within the limitations of a large-scale standardized test)

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
• Challenge and support all students with an appropriate curriculum
FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted:  Yes)
Funds of $100,000 are included in the Supplemental Academic Instruction (SAI) budget, Project 4604.
EVALUATION
 
SUBMITTED BY:  Sandra M. Rosario, Supervisor, Programs for English Language Learners
Wynne A. Tye   Gretchen Saunders
Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction
( 813)-272-4221		   Chief Business Officer
(813) 272-4270
    A 5.03
Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) * Mtg.#20110301_455 (Board Meeting) * Section A Item# 5.03