The House Committee on Public Education took up a full agenda on April 4. The report below covers discussions on HB 22 relating to public school accountability.
HB 22 (Huberty) Relating to public school accountability
- Committee substitute was laid out
- Removes summative A-F rating
- Reduce from 5 domains to 3 domains
- Distinction between D and F
- Limitation of STAAR to 50% of overall score
- Additional indicators of achievement in all three domains
- Delayed implementation until 2019 with additional models for 17-18 and 18-19 school years
- Clarified information be based on disaggregated information
- Expansion of student survey to school climate survey
HD Chambers, Alief ISD. Texas School Alliance – for the bill
- Continuous enrollment idea – original bill language would mean only look at continuously enrolled – did not mean to exclude any student
- Bill does address disaggregation of data to report on subpopulations
- VanDeaver – campus characteristics, enrollment size question; is the plan for a weighted measure
- Idea is not to weight measure but to create comparability group report starting with size
- Asking the system to speak to multiple audiences, putting a lot of responsibility on indicators to communicate many things
Mike Morath, Commissioner of Education – on the bill
- Huberty – delayed implementation because of concern of time period to get indicators implemented, asked for more details
- Ratings were going to be issued in Aug. 2018, with bill framework moved to Aug. 2019 and rules delayed to 2018
- In regards to design process, there would be another legislative session before indicators are finalized
- Huberty – know there was concern about certain progress indicators not being quantifiable?
- Yes, will have tiered rating system and will lean on indicators to explain and if those are “squishy” they are harder to stand on during appeals
Committee substitute unanimously voted out favorably
Link to discussion:
http://tlchouse.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=40&clip_id=13382
1:55:00 & 4:14:30