The ruling acknowledged that the test adversely impacts minorities even when socioeconomic status is accounted for, yet still gave a thumbs up to a critical component of Texas accountability system. Also, they contended that the State Board of Education arbitrarily chose the cutoff score. The group even rebuked the state for not offering the test in Spanish. Very first, high school diplomas are not students , being held from them by the state. Based on the present funding mechanism, diplomas are partially the state s to grant.
Students do have the right to and a legal obligation to attend school until a certain age.
They do not have a legal right to a high school diploma. Second, students are given eight opportunities to take the exit TAAS, beginning in 10th grade. More than half of students pass on the first try. Twenty-five percent of Texas minorities, they state correctly, are held back in the ninth grade every year. State data presented by Dr. Uri Treisman and the TEA admitted this.