RISD Executive Director of Accountability and Continuous Improvement Jacob Cortez continued to explain the substantial and complex changes in the state’s accountability ratings.
One of the proposed changes with the academic growth part of the school progress domain. The change seeks to “improve the ability to recognize growth,” specifically in students in grades four through 12 in reading and math, and to “recognize successful learning acceleration.”
These changes would impact the way the state scores the school progress component of the overall rating, and the state also updated the percentage of tests meeting or exceeding growth required to generate an “A” for all campus types.
“There will be more opportunities for the students to earn growth measures,” Cortez said. “However, this means there will also be more students considered in the calculations. The focus of these accountability changes are about growth and acceleration. There will be more opportunities to recognize student growth from one year to the next.”
The Texas Education Agency expects to release materials to describe the changes in July.
RISD awaits the release of the proposed 2023 accountability manual from the state that is expected in May. The final STAAR test results used for accountability ratings will not be available until mid-August, and the state plans to release school district ratings in mid-September.
Please click here to listen to The RISD Podcast episode on the changes.
