Education
BY DUSTIN BUTLER
Education Edition
2025
Welcome to Community Impact’s annual education edition. With school starting back up, now is the perfect time for this special section which features the latest updates on K-12 public education in your community. All of the stories were written by our team of local journalists and all of the advertisements are from nearby business who support our mission to provide free, useful news—please show them your gratitude by supporting them. In this guide section, make sure to check out our latest updates from Richardson ISD and Plano ISD, including accountability ratings from the Texas Education Agency, cell phone bans and more. Also make sure to dig into our front page story, which features information about RISD’s $1.4 billion bond election on the horizon. While our public education edition comes around only once a year, we work diligently to cover local schools daily. Keep up to date on our website and in our free daily newsletter.
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Dobie Pre-K Center to transform into community center (Page 12)
Michael Crouchley Editor mcrouchley@ communityimpact.com
Richardson ISD calls a $1.4 billion bond (Page 14 15)
Check out public education updates from the Texas legislature (Page 16)
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Richardson ISD earned a C rating for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school year from the Texas Education Agency’s accountability report, according to the agency website. The 2023-24 ratings were delayed because of a lawsuit led by 33 districts, which argued the agency’s revamped guidelines did not follow state law. Richardson ISD earns ‘C’ for 2023 24, 2024 25 school year progress, which measures the number of students who grew academically and the achievement of economically disadvantaged students, earned a B. For closing the gaps, which uses data to nd dif- ferentials between ethnic groups, socioeconomic backgrounds and other factors, the district earned a C. In addition, campuses were also scored by the TEA. Individual campus ratings can be found online. For the 2023-24 school year, the district earned a C in all categories. Some context Student achievement School progress Closing the gaps Richardson ISD TEA scores*
18% of districts would have received an A rating, while 23% did for the 2024-25 school year. Addi- tionally, 31% of campuses across the state had an increase to their rating.
In August 2024, a Travis County district court blocked the release of the ratings; however, the Texas Courts of Appeals ruled in July that the 2023-24 ratings can be released. The details The A F system gives districts four grades: overall, student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps. Overall, the district earned a 79, or C, rating for the 20254-25 school year. It earned a B in student achievement, which measures student performance across all grades and subjects. School
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At an Aug. 18 news conference, TEA Commis- sioner Mike Morath said the A F accountability system “fundamentally starts with a basic belief system in Texas that we think that all children can learn and achieve at high levels, ... as long as we, the adults, support them appropriately in our schools.” He said that according to the 2024 results, only
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*NOTE: CATEGORIES ARE AVERAGED TO PROVIDE THE DISTRICT'S OVERALL RATINGS.
SOURCE: RICHARDSON ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT
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