TEA Grants District's AYP Appeal

BISD officials have been notified that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has granted the district’s appeal regarding the 2012 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results. Agency staff carefully reviewed the documentation submitted by Brownsville ISD and rendered a positive verdict. The appeal for Resaca, Sharp and Castañeda Elementary Schools was granted. TEA was asked to reconsider the Reading and Mathematics Performance measure based upon one or more boxes of State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) or Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) answer documents being lost in transit to the testing contractor, or damaged/misplaced by the testing contractor. Documentation provided by the district and agency research confirmed that 339 missing, damaged, or misplaced grade 3 answer documents affected the AYP outcome of five campuses within the district, three of which missed AYP. Since TEA has acknowledged the irregularities with the answer documents, the appeal of Reading and/or Mathematics Performance and Reading and/or Mathematics Participation has been granted and indicators set to “Not Evaluated.” The 2012 AYP status for Brownsville ISD and Resaca Elementary is “Not Evaluated”. This means that the district’s rating of Stage 3 has been returned to Stage 2 on the AYP scale. The 2012 AYP status for Sharp Elementary and Castañeda Elementary is “Meets AYP”. -View entire media release.