January 9, 2018      5:38 PM
New K12 academic accountability, with higher standards, sent to DC for fed approval
The bar for student achievement is higher; the feds and special ed advocates wanted to see schools held accountable for students with disabilities
The bar
for student achievement in Texas is significantly higher in a redlined draft that
the Texas Education Agency has now sent to the Department
of Education.
Education
Commissioner Mike Morath wrote the original draft, submitted last
September, prospectively.
The
intention was to allow the stakeholder process to identify specifics. But the
Department of Education returned the state’s draft in late December asking for
revisions. The document
sent to the Department of Education this week complied with those requests.
By Kimberly Reeves
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