The Texas Education Agency (TEA) submitted a revised version of its Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) state plan to the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) based on official feedback received from USDE on Dec. 21, 2017. The major areas of clarification requested by U.S. Department of Education (USDE) centered on Texas’ new academic accountability system outlined in HB 22, passed by the 85th Legislature. Proposed accountability rules will be released in March by the state after several months of soliciting and receiving feedback from stakeholders across the state on the design of the new system. If additional feedback leads to decisions different from what is proposed and already submitted in our ESSA plan, TEA will submit amendments to USDE that reflect input from stakeholders.
USDE page which will also post the approved version of the plan when it is complete: https://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/stateplan17/map/tx.html