Sentences with phrase «texas public school accountability system»

Those of us who are involved with PreK - 12 education reform have been dealing with a major firestorm of pushback to the Texas public school accountability system and its high stakes standardized assessments that were adopted in 2009.

For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school graduation standard in the country when fully implemented.

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Gardner provided leadership for statewide initiatives such as Texas» higher education planClosing the Gaps by 2015, the college and university electronic library resource sharing consortium, the Texas Accountability System for Higher Education, and the Texas Public Education Information Resource, which includes information on all students enrolled in Texas public schools, as well as public and private higher education institutions in Public Education Information Resource, which includes information on all students enrolled in Texas public schools, as well as public and private higher education institutions in public schools, as well as public and private higher education institutions in public and private higher education institutions in Texas.

Under the Texas Education Code (TEC), section 42.006, originally passed in 1995, the Texas Legislature requires TEA to collect a range of student data via the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) program that is used as the basis for education policy decisions, for accountability and determining school funding, and — on a strictly FERPA - compliant basis — for education research.

As we begin the new school year and, in Texas, look toward the next level of school performance accountability, I believe it is important that we look beyond the test - driven accountability system, as useful as it has been, for more instructive leading indicators of progress toward excellence in public education.