COVID-19 Accountability FAQs

No. Current guidance provided by the federal government on January 18, 2021, expects state educational agencies to administer their English language proficiency (ELP) assessment to 100 percent of their eligible English learners this academic year. States have the flexibility to extend their testing window and administer their ELP test remotely. California extended the testing window for the 2020–21 English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC) summative assessment to July 30, 2021, to provide local educational agencies (LEAs) additional time to meet this requirement.

In July 2021, the Governor signed Assembly Bill (AB) 130. Section 123 of AB 130 states that the CDE:​

• Shall suspend the publication of the 2021 Dashboard​,
• Shall report valid and reliable data collected that would have been included in the 2021 Dashboard, and
• Shall publish local indicator data. However, performance determinations (i.e., Met, Not Met, Not Met for Two or More Years) will not be made.

When the CDE releases the 2021 Dashboard, it will include:

• Enrollment Data. These data at the Local Education Agency (LEA), school, and student groups levels are reflective of the 2020 Census Day information that LEAs submitted and certified to the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS). Note that at the LEA-level, the data excludes charter school data as they are treated as LEAs under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).
• Local Indicators. For the 2021 Dashboard, LEA Dashboard Coordinators were required to report local indicator data onto the Dashboard by October 15, 2021. For more information regarding local indicators, please view the CDE Local Indicators web page.

With the approval of the federal accountability waiver, CSI Low – Graduation schools will have an opportunity to exit based on graduation rate data from the 2018–19, 2019–20, and 2020–21 school years.

CSI – Low Performing and ATSI schools will remain in CSI/ATSI for the 2021–22 school year.

For more information about CSI Program and Funding related questions as a result of the waiver, please visit the CDE CSI web page. (select the Technical Assistance tab and view the Frequently Asked Questions)

In 2021, LEAs were not eligible to be newly identified for differentiated assistance per AB 130.

However, when the 2022 Dashboard is released, California will resume the identification of LEAs for support and differentiated assistance.

In 2021, charter schools were not eligible to be newly identified for differentiated assistance per AB 130.

When the 2022 Dashboard is released, charter schools will continue to not be eligible for differentiated assistance. This is due to changes that were made to the eligibility criteria following the 2019 identification process in AB 130 section 123(d) (Chapter 44, Statutes of 2021), and the parameters set forth in California Education Code section 47607.3(a).

Charter schools will resume eligibility for differentiated assistance with the release of the 2023 Dashboard.

The 95 percent participation rate is not required to be reported in the SARC. However, schools are required to report the number of students tested, percent tested, and percent of students not tested on the SARC.

For 2021–22, local educational agencies are required to measure progress in the local indicators, report these results as part of a non-consent item at a regularly scheduled public meeting of the local governing board/body in conjunction with the adoption of the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), and report results to the public through the Dashboard. However, as noted above, performance determinations (i.e., Met, Not Met, Not Met for Two or More Years) will not be made in the 2021 Dashboard. For additional information about the 2021–22 local indicator process please refer the California School Dashboard Local Indicator Process for 2021–22 (PDF) webinar posted on the Tuesdays @ 2 Web page or contact LCFF@cde.ca.gov.