Mark, This is what I copied from the Education Code,
Text of subsec. (b) as amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 805,
§ 1
(b) Performance on the indicators adopted under this
section shall be compared to state-established standards. The
degree of change from one school year to the next in performance on
each indicator adopted under this section shall also be considered.
The indicators must be based on information that is disaggregated
by race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status and must
include:
(1) the results of assessment instruments required
under Sections 39.023(a), (c), and (l), aggregated by grade level
and subject area;
(2) dropout rates, including dropout rates and
district completion rates for grade levels 9 through 12, computed
in accordance with standards and definitions adopted by the
National Center for Education Statistics of the United States
Department of Education;
(3) high school graduation rates, computed in
accordance with standards and definitions adopted in compliance
with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Pub. L. No.
107-110);
(4) student attendance rates;
(5) the percentage of graduating students who attain
scores on the secondary exit-level assessment instruments required
under Subchapter B that are equivalent to a passing score on the
test instrument required under Section 51.306;
(6) the percentage of graduating students who meet the
course requirements established for the recommended high school
program by State Board of Education rule;
(7) the results of the Scholastic Assessment Test
(SAT), the American College Test (ACT), articulated postsecondary
degree programs described by Section 61.852, and certified
workforce training programs described by Chapter 311, Labor Code;
These are the indicators that must be addressed in the assessment of our
students. I guess it has something to do with AYP of the NCLB. I know we get
School Report Cards based on these criteria and if we don't meet them, we
can be put on probation or even taken over by state administration.
According to the bill proposed:
(b-1) Additional criteria in the rules for rating a school
district under this section shall include consideration of the
effectiveness of the district's delivery of resources from school
libraries.
(c) The agency shall evaluate against state standards and
shall, not later than August 1 of each year, report the performance
of each campus in a district and each open-enrollment charter
school on the basis of the campus's performance on the indicators
adopted under Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (7).
the key question for me is "the agency shall evaluate against state
standards." We don't officially, as far as I know, have any state adopted
standards for school libraries. We have some new ones suggested by the Texas
State Library and Archives Commission as of last spring but I haven't heard
that they have been adopted as yet. I heard this fall that they had to be
re-written in the "lingo" approved by the Texas Education Agency.
Sandra Carswell, Librarian
Lovett Ledger Intermediate
Copperas Cove, TX 76525
sandracarswell@hotmail.com
sandraca@ccisd.com
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