Proposed Accountability Rating System for Texas Schools and Districts

1. Proposed Accountability Rating System for Texas Schools and Districts Department of Research and Accountability

2. What We Will Discuss Today • Updates to the state’s new accountability system • What is the status of the proposed system? • What about AYP? • What’s next?

3. Updates to the Four Performance Indices Student Achievement 1 Student Progress 2 Closing Performance Gaps 3 Postsecondary Readiness 4

4. All Students Only • Combined over All Subject Areas and all STAAR test versions • Credit given for Satisfactory Performance Level II at the phase-in standard • TAKS for 11th grade students in 2013 only Student Achievement 1 NEW!

5. Ten Student Groups Evaluated • By Subject Area (Reading & Mathematics; Writing added in 2014) • Same assessments used in Index 1 where student progress measures are available • Credit based on weighted performance: 1 point for each percent of students who meet growth expectations, 2 points for each percent of students who exceed growth expectations • Size requirement: 20 students 25 students Student Progress 2 2014 - 2013 NEW! NEW!

6. Closing Performance Gaps • All Economically Disadvantaged Students and Two Lowest Performing Racial/Ethnic Groups based on the Index 1 student achievement indicator reported in the prior year • By Subject Area (Reading/ELA, Mathematics, Writing, Science, and Social Studies) • Credit based on weighted performance for students at Level II Satisfactory (one point per percentage) at the phase-in standard and Level III Advanced (2014) (two points per percentage) at the final standard • Size requirement: : 20 students 25 students 3 NEW! NEW!

7. STAAR Percent Met Final Level II - 2014 and beyond • Four-year Graduation Rate or Five-year Graduation Rate (or Annual Dropout Rate if no graduation rate) • Ten Student Groups Evaluated: All Students, each Race/Ethnicity, Students with Disabilities, and ELLs • Percent Recommended or Advanced High School Program Plan (RHSP/AHSP) Graduates • Eight Student Groups Evaluated: All Students and each Race/Ethnicity • Size requirement: 20 students 25 students Postsecondary Readiness 4 NEW!

8. ELL Exclusions Index I & II 2013: • Years 1-3 in US Schools are excluded • Years 4 and beyond in US Schools are included at Phase-in Level II performance standard • Asylees/refugees in US Schools years 1-5 are excluded • Immigrants entering at Grade 9 or above are excluded NEW!

9. ELL Exclusions Index I & II 2014 and Beyond: • 1st Year in US Schools are excluded • Years 2-4 in US Schools are included • English testers included using ELL Progress Measure, • Spanish testers included using STAAR growth measure • Year 5 and beyond in US Schools are included at phase-in Level II performance standard • Asylees/refugees in US Schools years 1-5 are excluded • Immigrants entering at Grade 9 or above are excluded NEW!

10. ELL Exclusions Index III NEW! • 2013 Excluded, 2014 and Beyond: • 1st Year in US Schools are excluded • Years 2-4 in US Schools are included • English testers included using ELL Progress Measure • Spanish testers included using STAAR growth measure • Years 5 and beyond in US Schools are included at phase-in Level II and final Level III performance standards • Asylees/refugees in US Schools years 1-5 are excluded

11. ELL Exclusions Index IV 2013 Excluded, 2014 and beyond: • Years 1-4 in US Schools are excluded • Year 5 and beyond in US Schools are included at final Level II performance • Asylees/refugees are excluded • Immigrants entering at Grade 9 or above are excluded NEW!

12. Accountability Ratings Scale

13. System Safeguards NEW! • The intent of the safeguards system is to meet federal accountability requirements that are not met in the performance index. • Failure to meet the safeguard target for any reported cell must be addressed in campus and district improvement plans.

14. System Safeguards: Participation Rates NEW! • 95% in Reading and Math: • All Students • 7 Ethnic Groups • Economically Disadvantaged • English Language Learners • Students with Disabilities

15. System Safeguards: Federal Graduation Rates NEW! • 78% 4-year and 83% 5-year • All Students • 7 Ethnic Groups • Economically Disadvantaged • English Language Learners • Students with Disabilities

16. System Safeguards: District Caps NEW! • Reading and Mathematics • 2% Modified • 1% Alternate

17. What is the status of the proposed system? • Commissioner was scheduled to approve the system by end of March 2013. • However, House Bill 5 (2013) recently passed by a margin of 145-2, and is pending in the Senate.

18. House Bill 5 TEA would be required to implement a three pronged accountability system, as opposed to the proposed four index system, which includes: • Student Achievement • Community Engagement • Financial Ratings

19. House Bill 5 Student Achievement: • The bill excludes results of statewide standardized tests, and EOC’s, as a student achievement indicator to the greatest extent possible. 

20. House Bill 5 Community Engagement : • The bill requires a school district to use criteria developed by the commissioner, in conjunction with criteria developed by a local committee to evaluate the performance of a campus, and establishes requirements with regard to the development of those state and local criteria.  

21. Pending Legislation SB 1109: Relating to suspending public school accountability ratings and certain interventions and sanctions for the 2012-2013 school year. • Unanimously passed out of committee yesterday (9-0). • Currently scheduled for public Hearing. HB 1017: Relating to suspending public school accountability ratings for the 2012-2013 school year. • Referred to Public Education Committee

22. What About AYP? • Waiver of the federal Accountability Performance Targets/Standards Setting Procedures to allow TEA to replace the current Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) calculations and performance targets with the state’s accountability rating system. • Waiver to create a single system of interventions based on accountability results.

23. What are the next steps? TBD