The state accountability system is reviewed annually. First, a Focus Group of Educators meets to review various accountability topics for the current year and beyond. Next, the Educator Focus Group proposal is presented to the Commissioner's Accountability Advisory Committee (CAAC). Yesterday’s release of the commissioner’s final decisions for 2009 Accountability did not have any last minute surprises. If interested, please review the entire 13 page report at this web address: http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2009/index.html
Cloyd Hastings has highlighted important information from the document:
- Academically Acceptable rises 5% for Writing and Social Studies (to 70%); for math (to 55%); and for science (to 50%).
- The Texas Projection Measure (TPM) that was originally designed for use in AYP will be used in AEIS immediately. A TPM for grade 8 will not be available until 2010.
- The hierarchy for meeting a given subject’s standard is:
The Absolute Standard, Required Improvement, Texas Projection Measure, & Exceptions. - The School Leaver Provision is no longer available. This means that the high school’s completion rates for All Students and the four subpopulation groups can impact a campus and/or district rating. This also means that the middle school dropout rates can have a similar impact.
- The Underreported Students indicator is now fully in play and can impact a district’s rating.
- College Ready Graduates moves from a report only status to an actual Gold Performance Acknowledgement.
- In 2009 GPA standards increase for 9 of the 14 indicators.
We feel the changes will only benefit our campus.
Also, as mentioned yesterday during our faculty meeting, we have moved up according to Newsweek's annual school ranking report from 838 in 2008, to 637 this year. Keep up the good work RLT! http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380/?q=2008/rank/1.
Wishing you all a fantastic weekend,
Lance
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