Seguin ISD joins voice asking state to pause changes to state accountability system

(Seguin) – The Seguin ISD is now one of 250 Texas school districts and education organizations who are asking the Texas Education Agency to pause its planned “refresh” of the A-F Accountability System that would “retroactively increase the bar for College, Career and Military Readiness by 47 percent. The CCMR is one of the elements that helps to determine a school or district’s overall rating.

Together the school districts submitted a letter to the state including to Texas Governor Greg Abbot.

Although the attempts by the state are said to help “refocus on goals that directly address postpandemic student needs” and to “allow Texas to leverage lessons learned over the last five years to improve the rigor, transparency, change and that’s the redesign of the STAAR exam. and fairness of the accountability system,” these districts are concerned that their attempts will also be at the same time as another

The TEA proposes to raise the cut score necessary for a high school to receive an “A” in the CCMR domain from a 60 to an 88, a nearly 47 percent increase in one year and apply this increased cut score to students who graduated in 2022.

According to materials published by the TEA, the newly proposed cut score was set for two primary reasons: 1) too many schools are performing above the 60-point threshold; and 2) 68 percent of students who are deemed college, career, or military ready, sustain postsecondary success one year after graduation.

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