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(TEA | CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) The district overall rating on the Texas Education Agency A-F Accountability Rating website txschool.gov for 2021-2022. Ratings by the state have been held up due to the COVID-19 pandemic and temporary injunctions by Travis County courts.
Following a ruling from the 15th Court of Appeals, the 2023 A-F Academic Accountability Ratings for Texas school districts will be released online Thursday.
The 2023 district-level campus ratings were made available to school systems Thursday, April 17 and will be publicly available at txschools.gov Thursday, April 24.
State law requires annual A-F performance rating for Texas public schools, with no ratings issued for five years due to the COVID-19 pandemic and temporary injunctions by Travis County courts.
The appeals court dissolved the temporary injunction on the case and the stay order and dismissed the suit for lacking the authoring to hear the case.
The Graham ISD Board of Trustees approved in September 2023 to join over 100 school districts in a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency which alleged Commissioner of Education Mike Morath was unlawfully lowering the A-F Accountability Ratings for 2022-2023.
The lawsuit alleged that districts were graded on a new scale not provided to districts at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year instead of the measure, methods and procedures which were adopted Aug. 11, 2022.
The GISD board met in September 2023 and discussed joining other school districts on a lawsuit filed in Travis County.
Former GISD Superintendent Sonny Cruse estimated that it would cost the district around $5,000 to participate in the lawsuit.
The A-F Accountability Ratings are based on three areas of performance: student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps.
Student achievement is based on how much students know and are able to do at the end of the year; school progress is based on how students perform over time and the growth in comparison to similar schools; and closing the gaps is based on how well different cohorts of students within a school are performing.
The Texas Education Code states that each school year the commissioner must provide a document that explains the accountability performance measures, methods and procedures that will be applied for that school year.
TEA announced that there would be a temporary delay of the release of the 2023 A-F Accountability Ratings which were originally scheduled to be released Sept. 28, 2023.
The A-F ratings were planned to be delayed from the typical mid-August release date due to the standards-setting process required with the redesign of STAAR. The accountability system was refreshed with changes to the cut points and indicator methodology.
