With Change in Formula, Texas School Ratings Drop
The new accountability ratings released Friday for public school campuses in the state's 1,228 districts and charter schools present a "far more accurate look" at academic performance, Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott said.
They are also markedly lower — with far fewer schools achieving the highest ratings than last year. Instead, most schools fall in the middle "acceptable" category.
Many districts find themselves with lower ratings even though their student achievement has remained the same. That's because the formula used to calculate the ratings, based primarily on students' standardized test scores, no longer includes a mechanism called the ...
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Michelle Bafik-Vehslage via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry just cut the budget again...
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
But he bragged last year about how much "growth" was made in Texas.
Robert Blain via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Any ideas on how Perry's office will spin this?
Steve Coyle via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Given that within weeks of the Texas Legislature coming into sessions they were signaling drastic cuts to education and Districts around the State responded by announcing potential school closures and reductions in force-how do you determine what was a change in rating due to changes in accountability measures and what were actual performance drops due to the chaos that was created by the funding cuts in the budget?
Bill Carson
Remember that the ultra-conservatives are intent on killing public education so that their kids don't have to rub elbows with the great unwashed brown-skinned majority.
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
When you put an end to 'creative math', reality tends to smack you in the face.
Bonnie Alexander Lesley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The only reason we had this smoke and mirrors was to aid in Perry's re-election. Aren't we proud?
Karen Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Anybody who would vote for Perry for President has poop for brains. No thank you--just look what he has done to Texas.
Frances Demps via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The fake growth TPM was a travesty. Teachers didn't ask for it, parents didn't ask for it, and it was a huge disservice to students. The only reason it was instituted was so the guv could brag about how much better Texas students are doing under his "leadership." Now that the election is over, they've dropped the TPM and it makes schools look terrible. I AM SO SICK OF PERRY AND HIS MINIONS! Sorry for the "yell', but I'm just fed up. Oh, gosh, isn't the name of the guv's book (Fed Up)?
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Wow, Perry must be busy, sitting in on all those committees who wrote the test standards. I guess he's also responsible for the long string of 100 degree days in Dallas as well.
Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I believe I could get a better understanding of this issue if they had included the entire "formula".
Jim Haley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oh BALONEY! There is nothing right, fair, or transparent about an accountability system that bases the publicized rating of an entity on the organization's single lowest indicator. A school can have 24 Exemplary scores above 90%, and one "Recognized" score of 89%, and the TEA system labels that school as Recognized instead of Exemplary. Not to mention the even more absurd fact that even if a school reaches the state's highest rank of Exemplary, that school could still miss the federal AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) standard. None of it is fair, accurate, or legitimate. I guarantee you that your local school district had many more excellent scores than their rating leads you to believe.
Tim Hurst via Texas Tribune on Facebook
thank you ric perry for another low ranking for texas.