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A-F Accountability Ratings: Charters vs. School Districts

Publish Date: August 23, 2019

A-F Accountability Ratings: Charters vs. School Districts Last week, the TEA released their A-F accountability ratings for each campus throughout the state and the comparison between ISDs and charters is shameful considering the state spends $3 billion per year on inefficient, unaccountable, and subpar charters: 25.1% of ISDs earned an...

Publish Date: August 16, 2019

Publish Date: August 2, 2019

Texas AFT Comments on TEA Rules for A-F Ratings

Publish Date: August 2, 2019

Texas AFT Comments on Proposed Amendments to §97.1051 and Proposed New §97.1060 Texas AFT strongly opposes the proposed amendments because these changes would have the effect of putting struggling districts and their elected boards on the fast-track to state takeover without allowing sufficient time to see if the turnaround improvement...

Publish Date: August 15, 2018

Statement on A-F grading of school districts

Publish Date: August 15, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 15, 2018 CONTACT: Rob D’Amico, 512-627-1343 Nothing is fair about this simplistic, test-driven system that doesn’t reflect how schools are progressing and serving their students and communities Louis Malfaro, Texas AFT president, commented today on the Texas Education Agency release of A-F ratings for school districts:...

TEA hearings on accountability rules once again shed light on problems with A-F

Publish Date: July 10, 2018

Throughout the month of June, TEA held public hearings to gather input on the commissioner of education’s proposed amendments and rules for the A-F accountability rating system. Districts will receive a rating of A, B, C, D, or F for overall performance, beginning in August of this year, while campuses...

House Public Education Committee meets April 18 on school finance, A-F accountability

Publish Date: April 16, 2018

Needs for school funding and the state’s venture into an A-F accountability labeling system will feature prominently on the agenda of the state House Public Education Committee slated for 1 p.m. on April 18. The finance portion of the hearing will cover some of the same ground addressed by the...

Draft A-F accountability rules do little to allay concerns

Publish Date: March 19, 2018

The 2015 legislature narrowly passed a bill providing for simplistic A-F ratings for schools, but the A-F system will not be implemented until later this year for school districts and not until 2019 for individual campuses. That gives the 2019 legislature a chance to reconsider and undo the A-F mandate,...

State testing, test-based sanctions, and a-f ratings

Publish Date: January 21, 2018

The test-driven educational rating system in Texas, with its proliferation of mandatory, standardized tests and attached penalties, has forced our students, teachers, and schools to spend far too much time on test preparation, practice testing, and test administration—to the detriment of real instruction. The excessive emphasis on standardized testing so...

State House and Senate Differ on Changes Needed in A-F Rating System for Schools

Publish Date: May 25, 2017

After 2 a.m. Thursday morning the Texas Senate produced a bill tweaking but not fundamentally fixing the A-F rating system for public schools slated for its first real use in the coming school year. The A-F grades for schools have been highly controversial in the minority of states where they...

Rollback of Simplistic A-F School Ratings Approved in House Committee

Publish Date: April 6, 2017

The House Public Education Committee on Tuesday voted unanimously to revise and roll back the simplistic A-F school-rating scheme enacted in 2015. The bipartisan unanimity for HB 22 bodes well for the ratings rollback in the full House. HB 22 as approved in committee delays the first use of the...

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