Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY › Chapter 97 - PLANNING AND ACCOUNTABILITY › Subchapter AA - ACCOUNTABILITY AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING › Section 97.1003 - Local Accountability System

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a)
				  The local accountability system standards established by the commissioner of
				  education under Texas Education Code (TEC), §39.0544, shall be used by
				  school districts to develop a plan to locally evaluate the performance of their
				  campuses. For the purpose of this section, the term school district includes
				  open-enrollment charter schools.
(b) A local accountability plan created by a
				  school district must include domain performance ratings assigned by the
				  commissioner under TEC, § 39.054, and performance ratings based on locally
				  developed domains or sets of accountability measures.
(1) A locally developed domain or set of
				  accountability measures is referred to as a plan component. Plan components
				  must describe each item and the reason for its inclusion in the plan. A school
				  district must assign each component to one of the following five domains:
				  academics, culture and climate, extra- and co-curricular, future-ready
				  learning, and locally determined. The weight of all plan components must equal
				  100%.
(2) Each campus with an
				  approved school district plan is eligible to receive local accountability
				  rating. A campus with an overall state accountability rating of C or higher
				  based on ratings derived from student performance at the campus is eligible to
				  combine an overall local accountability rating with the overall state
				  accountability rating to determine the combined rating.
(3) For the purposes of assigning state
				  accountability ratings, a campus that does not serve any grade level for which
				  a State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAARÃ,®)
				  examination is administered is paired with a campus in its school district that
				  serves grade levels for which STAARÃ,® examinations are
				  administered. A campus not rated under the state accountability system is not
				  eligible to combine state and local ratings. Local accountability data for a
				  campus without state ratings may be displayed on Texas Education Agency (TEA),
				  school district, and campus websites but will not be combined with state
				  accountability data. The state accountability manual adopted under §
											97.1001
				  of this title (relating to Accountability Rating System) provides information
				  about campus ratings and eligibility for applicable years.
(4) A school district must create its local
				  accountability plan based on school type. The four school types are elementary
				  school, middle school, high school, and Kindergarten-Grade 12. The plan must
				  include all campuses within a school type. The school district may also request
				  to identify an additional school group within a school type for which to
				  customize its local accountability plan. Otherwise, all campuses within a
				  school type must be evaluated on a common set of components determined by the
				  school district. A school district may also request to identify a campus rated
				  under alternative education accountability provisions as a unique school
				  type.