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* 4. Included in the Rhode Island Waiver is a timeline to revise the current guidance for determining student eligibility for the alternate assessment. Revised guidance would include tools designed to help educators and IEP Teams evaluate student data to ensure that each student meets the participation criteria. In your opinion, would revised guidance be beneficial to ensuring that each student meets the criteria for the alternate assessment?

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* 5. As part of the plan to revise the current guidance for determining student eligibility for alternate assessment, RIDE will recruit LEAs to provide feedback on the draft guidance and to pilot it by reviewing the eligibility decisions of students who were already found eligible to take the alternate assessment. What considerations should RIDE take into account when recruiting LEAs to participate in this work?

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* 6. Our waiver includes requests to test more than one percent of students with the DLM alternate assessments in ELA and mathematics. We could not include science because less than 95% of students with disabilities participated in the general education science state assessment (NGSA). From your perspective, which factors contribute to low participation on the science tests? Please check all that apply.

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* 7. Do you agree with the waiver that Rhode Island is seeking for exceeding the one percent threshold for English language arts and mathematics DLM alternate assessments?

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