Creating a New Vision for Public Education in Texas, also called the visioning document, is the result of two years of work by 35 public school superintendents from across the state who were inspired to come together to create a new vision for public education in...
Knowing Texas educators’ concerns about the state accountability system, state testing requirements, and the pending implementation of A-F ratings, in 2016 the Texas Association of School Administrators commissioned John Tanner, executive director of Test Sense...
In 2015, the 84th Texas Legislature passed House Bill 18, which shifted the responsibility of reporting on the progress of the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium from the commissioner of education to the districts and charters participating in the Consortium....
On February 23, 2016, representatives of the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium provided the Texas Commission on Next-Generation Assessments and Accountability, created in 2015 by House Bill 2804 to “develop and make recommendations for new systems of student...
Oklahoma is among the states that has chosen to report school performance using a single letter grade generated primarily from standardized test results. In 2015, the Oklahoma State Department of Education published this report, Next Generation School Accountability,...
