After a school has been classified a comprehensive support and improvement school for four years, the department shall examine whether the school meets the exit criteria in this section. The department shall remove the comprehensive support and improvement school classification if the school meets the following criteria:

1. (1) The school does not meet any of the criteria in § 24:55:03:07;
2. (2) The school's performance on key indicators overall is better than the performance demonstrated the year that triggered the school's designation; and

3. (3) The school has demonstrated improvement on the indicators of highest need, as determined by the school's comprehensive needs assessment conducted in the first year of designation and agreed upon between the school support team professional and the school.

   A school meeting the above criteria and meeting its annual targets towards long-term goals may petition the department to exit the designation early.

Source: 39 SDR 51, effective October 3, 2012; 40 SDR 40, effective September 11, 2013; 41 SDR 218, effective July 1, 2015 ; 43 SDR 176, effective July 3, 2017 ; 44 SDR 95, effective December 6, 2017.

General Authority: SDCL 13-3-69(6).

Law Implemented: SDCL 13-3-67 , 13-3-69.

Prior versions effective: 2017-07-03, 2015-07-01, 2013-09-11.