TEA Commissioner Robert Scott denied its request to adjust the district’s rating and Creekview’s rating from Academically Acceptable to Recognized.

The Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD (C-FB ISD) has learned that TEA Commissioner Robert Scott denied its request to adjust the district’s rating and Creekview’s rating from Academically Acceptable to Recognized.  The district submitted an appeal to TEA because it had missed one of the 10 indicators on the dropout/completion rate.  As a result, the district has an academically acceptable rating as well as Creekview. 

The editor of  this blog has made an open document request for the copy of  the notification letter from TEA Commissioner Robert Scott.  The letter will explain the basis for the commissioner's decision.

Texas school district administrators this week learned the fate of their challenges to 2008-09 accountability ratings issued in July. Last year, 83 appeals were submitted to the TEA. This year, 223 appeals were filed, and most were based on completions.

According to the Fort Worh Star-Telegraph, the Texas Education Agency agreed to raise the accountability ratings for the entire Keller school district and an Arlington high school but denied appeals to change ratings at two Fort Worth high schools.

Like C-FBISD, for all three school districts, the problem centered on the completion rate, which was part of the ratings for the first time this year for students who entered high school in 2004-05. The completion rate measures the students who graduate as scheduled or return for another year of school.

Hopefully, the open document request will provide insight into why the TEA Commissioner found that the C-FBISD appeal was without merit.