The school ratings are out in Texas, and things aren't looking good:
Sixty-one districts, including 19 regular districts and 42 charter school operators, were labeled academically unacceptable, the lowest of the state's school accountability ratings. That compares with 24 districts that got the lowest rating last year.The number of individual schools with the bottom ranking also increased, from 95 last year to 364 this year. Schools can appeal the ratings. Certain sanctions and interventions are taken against campuses receiving the academically unacceptable rating. Exemplary districts and campuses, those with the state's highest rating, declined in number.
Stricter standards were given as one reason for the results:
The main causes for schools and districts receiving the academically unacceptable rating...were students' math and science test performances and a new TAKS-aligned exam for special education students given for the first time.Posted by kswygert at August 1, 2005 07:12 PM