The Texas Education Agency is temporarily blocked from releasing new public school ratings after a coalition of districts sued Commissioner Mike Morath over...
Texas parents won’t get a fresh sense of how their kids’ school stacks up in the A-F accountability system – at least for now.after a coalition of districts sued Commissioner Mike Morath over changes to the formulas. A Travis County judge granted a temporary injunction Thursday.The district leaders argued Morath was “retroactively changing the rules in a way that will arbitrarily lower performance ratings for many school districts and campuses even though their performance improved.
Seventy percent of the grade is based on either student achievement or school progress -- whichever is the higher grade -- while closing the gaps makes up 30%.A major change was proposed for a key part of the high school evaluations: College, Career and Military Readiness, or CCMR. In 2017, the state decided that if 60% of graduates proved “CCMR ready,” the school earned the equivalent of an A. Since then, campuses have made progress in this metric.
Morath has previously said the system’s refresh is part of a five-year cycle. Updates are needed, he said, to make sure that schools are constantly working to improve outcomes for students.District leaders argued the changes to the accountability formula were not made transparently and that districts didn’t have enough notice of the changes.
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