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District reviews accountability reporting changes for 2022-23 school year
Round Rock ISD board of trustees Meets May 19 at 5:30 p.m. 300 Lake Creek Drive, Round Rock 512-464-5000 www.roundrockisd.org MEETINGSWE COVER related to program requirements, funding, instruction and support for innovative music programs. DISTRICT HIGHLIGHT In April, the National Association of Music Merchants named Round Rock ISD one of the best communities for music education. The district qualified by submitting data “WE REALLYNEED TO SPENDMORE TIME ON STUDENT OUTCOMES, AND THIS REALLY HAS TO IMPROVE FOR THE DISTRICT TO MOVE FORWARD.” TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY MONITOR DAVID FALTYS, ON THE ROUND ROCK ISD BOARD’S PRIORITIES AT RECENT MEETINGS
interventions or sanctions, accord- ing to the district. The evaluations will affect the district’s accountability ratings, but will not affect ratings at the campus level, district staff said. Scaling and student group targets will also remain unchanged until 2023, district staff said. According to the TEA, “scaling” refers to the methodology behind assigning
A-F letter grades for performance reporting. “Our [virtual] students are typically outperforming students that were on campus in the fall,” Smith said. “I don’t know if we necessarily correlate one to the other, because the students who performed high were performing high prior to our virtual learning program [and] are performing high after.”
BY BROOKE SJOBERG
ROUND ROCK ISD District staff presented an update on accountabil- ity reporting changes for the 2022-23 school year to trustees during an April 21 board meeting. Ryan Smith, RRISD chief of teaching and learning, said there were few changes from the previous year handed down by the Texas Education Agency. Some of the updates are tied to House Bill 4545, a bill passed in 2021 that established learning acceler- ation requirements for students who do not pass the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness. For the first time, August account- ability ratings will also include outcomes for both in-person and virtual learners. This fall, the TEA will issue virtual program ratings that will evaluate the outcomes of students who were instructed virtually at least 50% of the time. Unlike STAAR testing, the TEA evaluations will not result in
HOUSE BILL 4545 REFRESHER HB 4545 was passed last June, giving districts additional requirements to address accelerated learning for students who do not pass the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness.
Under HB 4545:
• Students no longer have to retake exams in grade five and eight , and cannot be held back because they do not pass the STAAR; • The writing portion of the STAAR is no longer administered to grades four and seven; and • Districts are required to create individual education plans for students who do not pass STAAR in grade three, five or eight for math or reading, and monitor progress.
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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