Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Provide language proficiency assessments, specifically Spanish language proficiency for students served in elementary and at the secondary level. a. The assessment can only be provided in-person at school sites. The contractor and department communicate on the student maximum total count for each district or charter school, as reported in the Student Teacher Accountability System (STARS), BMEP Applications, or in other NMPED records, for the assessment. b. Contractor and department communicate to verify eligible students as those who are served in a state-funded BMEP and have not yet scored at the proficient level (intermediate-high) on the assessment, the latter is applicable for a student that have taken assessment at any point in the previous fiscal years. c. The contractor communicates with district and charter school staff on the Spanish Monolingual assessment to ensure that it is only used to measure Spanish language proficiency for students whose dominant language is Spanish and who may not yet have the English proficiency level necessary to take the regular Spanish test. d. The contractor incurs a set up and processing cost per eligible student when rostering students. This cost is half of the testing cost for each student and can be invoiced even if the student did not start the test. e. The remaining testing cost after rostering, to ensure full testing cost per student rostered, can be invoiced only after the student has completed the test. 2. Provide a Spanish screener for heritage learners, a group of students that represents the majority of the students in the state of New Mexico given our unique history and tie to the Spanish language. The Spanish for heritage learners assessment can be used as a screener at the secondary grades to measure Spanish language proficiency for students who are newcomers or are Spanish heritage learners, and who’s dominant language is Spanish. a. The cost of such a screening at the secondary level is covered once per student by the NMPED. 3. Provide language proficiency assessments in other world languages, including those that are not taught in New Mexico public schools but are heritage languages or the home languages of students
