Electronic Forms
The Kindergarten Prior Setting form in English and Kindergarten Prior Setting form in Spanish, and the Self-Help/Social-Emotional Scales form in English and the Self-Help/Social-Emotional Scales form in Spanish have been converted to an electronic format and are now available on the Kindergarten Screen webpage.
Parents/guardians can complete the forms online, save the file and email the completed forms to their child’s teacher or other school staff.
Non-Participation Requests
Occasionally there are students who experience a medical or extraordinary circumstance during the kindergarten screening time frame and are unable to be screened. In those cases, the school or district Kindergarten Screen coordinator can request a nonparticipation, with supporting documentation, in the Student Data Review and Rosters (SDRR) application when it opens for K Screen (date to be determined).
With the expanded screening administration window, it is too early to determine if a student will be eligible for an exemption from screening. If the student’s circumstances change, it might be possible to screen the student later in the year. For now, if you have students that you believe will likely be exempted, hold documentation at the school or district until SDRR opens for those requests.
As a reminder, processes also are being developed for requesting exemptions for students who are not able to be screened for reasons related to COVID-19 (e.g., student does not return to school in person before K Screen closes).
An exemption process will be developed for individual students to be waived from taking the K Screen through the SDRR application.
For districts that do not return to in-person sessions, a different process will be developed for the superintendent to request from the commissioner a waiver of the K Screen for entire schools within the district. Until then, students should be screened if possible.
More information will be communicated as details are finalized.
Screening Repeating Kindergarteners
In previous years, screening repeating kindergarten students was not required. Last school year it was optional. Beginning this school year (2020-2021), all students who have been retained in kindergarten will need to be screened again.
Screen data for all new and repeating kindergartners must be entered in the Brigance Online Management System (OMS).
It is not possible to manually add students to the OMS. As students are enrolled in Infinite Campus (IC), they will be included in the weekly file provided to populate the OMS.
Only students assigned to a course which has been mapped to state code 703001 (Elementary Homeroom) in state grade 00 (Kindergarten) in the course roster in Infinite Campus need to be tested and will be included in the OMS.
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