More than 100 school districts signed on to a lawsuit alleging the new standards set districts up to fail. The new standards applied to students who graduated in 2022, before the districts knew about the change.
Seven school districts sued Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath in August, claiming new accountability guidelines were released too late — in violation of state law. Since then, dozens of districts have joined the suit.Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath in August, claiming the new guidelines were released too late in violation of state law. The new standards applied to students who already graduated in 2022, before the districts knew about the change.
Since then, dozens of other districts signed on to the suit, including Pflugerville, Leander, Hutto, Hays, Bastrop, Elgin, Wimberley, Florence and Llano ISDs. Morath and the TEA started revising the A-F accountability metrics in October 2021 and published the new calculations in January of this year. The new rules raise the thresholds for top ratings.
The changes are intended to reflect the last school year, meaning districts could face lower scores without having known about the criteria.The temporary injunction, issued Thursday, prohibits Morath and anyone affiliated with him from assigning the new rating system for the 2022-23 school year until further order.
“There was a lot of speculation that the changes to the system and when they were going to be published was absolutely playing straight into the governor’s voucher push,” Kelsey Kling, government relations and policy analyst with Texas American Federation of Teachers,Seven school districts, including Del Valle ISD, filed the lawsuit in August. Since then, more than 90 other districts have joined the suit against the Texas education commissioner.
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