District leaders get first look at A-F ratings system

Educators throughout the state were less than thrilled with the Texas Legislature in 2015 as lawmakers went forward with the passage of a controversial bill (House Bill 2804) establishing a change to the state’s public school accountability system beginning with the 2017-’18 school year.
Passage of the bill essentially established an A-F grading system whereby districts, as well as individual campuses within those districts, are given letter grades in five different domains: I - Student Achievement, or how students perform on the annual State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (the STAAR test); II - Student Progress, or how students improve on the STAAR test from year to year; III - Closing the Gaps, or how well performance gaps are closed between low-income and high-income students; IV - Postsecondary Readiness, or how well students are prepared for college and careers after high school graduation; and V - Community and Student Engagement.

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