Louisiana remains committed to reducing student testing time on state-level assessments, including limiting testing to never more than 2% of instructional time and limiting end-of-year tests to never more than one week, but also reducing district-level assessment minutes while improving the quality of such benchmarking tools. LEAP 360 supports districts and schools in its collective effort to significantly reduce time on assessments. LEAP 360 assessment tools should not be used in addition to other district benchmarking but rather in the place of those previous assessments.
To support districts with system-wide test reduction, the LDE has led assessment audits with districts, utilizing assessment inventory resources to help districts evaluate the amount and quality of district and school assessments in order to reduce testing time.