BY HANNAH JOHNSON
Frisco ISD joins lawsuit against TEA over A F accountability
said. “Frisco ISD and other schools across the state support increasing standards. This is about the advanced notice that schools and communities should have when [the TEA] is going to change how [it’s] measuring schools.” Why it matters The lawsuit is seeking one of two options for the accountability scores: • For the commissioner to issue ratings for the 2022-23 school year and the 2023-24 school year using the existing system • For the commissioner to issue no ratings for the two school years FISD Trustee René Archambault said the changes are a retroactive measure the TEA is trying to impose on districts. The last three years have been “unprecedented” for education because of COVID- 19, she said, and district o cials in Texas have worked to meet the requirements.
Frisco ISD o cials joined several other state school districts in a lawsuit against the Texas
Education Agency. What’s happening?
The board voted Sept. 11 to join a lawsuit against the TEA over its failure to adequately notify school districts on the changes made to the way account- ability ratings are calculated. The lawsuit FISD is joining is based on Texas Edu- cation Code 39.0542, district general counsel Daniel Stockton said. Per the statute, the Texas education commissioner is required to provide school districts with a “simple, accessible” document explaining the accountability performance measures, methods and procedures that will be applied to their campus performance ratings. The district did receive this document, but Stock- ton said it contained the previous standards and not the new system that would be used. “This is not about increasing standards,” he
Students walk into Frisco ISD’s Wilkinson Middle School on the rst day of the 2023 24 school year.
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