OCR Self-Assessment Guide - Student Assessment

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(ESL, Bilingual, Structured Immersion)

Instructions for Completing the Assessment Guide

The guide is designed as a tool to assist district staff in obtaining a comprehensive overview of the district's practices and procedures with regard to equal educational opportunities for limited-English proficient students. Office for Civil Rights (OCR) staff will also review responses to the guide as part of its Profile, Assessment, and Resolution review process. Please circle the answer under each statement that best responds to the statement, indicating in the comments if a statement does not apply. Other comments may also provide to explain an answer.

OCR anticipates that the guide will be completed by a team of individuals in each school that OCR schedules to visit. Team members should be individuals who are most knowledgeable of the district's policies and procedures relative to the issue being reviewed by OCR. This would include administrators, teachers and paraprofessionals. The schools that OCR will visit will be identified in follow-up telephone discussions between district officials and OCR staff. OCR may not visit every school in the district; however, each district school is welcome to complete the guide.

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