Texas schools to get accountability ratings today
12:42 AM CDT on Friday, July 30, 2010
Texas schools will find out how well they performed last year when state accountability ratings are released today.
The Texas Education Agency plans to release the results at 1 p.m. The ratings are mostly based on passing rates on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills exam.
Schools that continuously don’t perform well, receiving the state’s lowest rating — academically unacceptable — for four or more consecutive years, risk being sanctioned or closed by the state.
TEA also is expected to include information on campuses that were helped by the controversial Texas Projection Measure, which allows schools to count as passing any student who failed a TAKS test but is projected to pass future tests. Last year, the new measure helped 2,000 schools earn higher school performance ratings.
Some critics of Texas Projection Measure have questioned its accura