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ERIC Number: ED615735
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Dec
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-
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House Bill 5 Evaluation: Final Report. Policy Brief
Mellor, Lynn; Stoker, Ginger; Muhisani, Helen
Texas Education Research Center
With the passage of HB 5 in 2013, the Foundation High School Program became the graduation program for all Texas public high school students beginning with the entering Grade 9 students in 2014-15. The new graduation requirements introduced greater flexibility for students in earning a high school diploma. Updates to curriculum and graduation requirements from the last two legislative sessions continue to add support and flexibility in how students meet state graduation requirements. The last two Texas legislative sessions also have brought significant changes to the state accountability system. In 2015, the 84th Texas Legislature passed HB 2804, which changed the state accountability system to an A-F rating in each of five domains and overall. Provisions of the bill required the commissioner of education to release a provisional A-F ratings report showing the ratings that each district and campus would have received for Domains I-IV for the 2015-16 school year if the A-F rating system had been in place. However, in 2017, the 85th Texas Legislature passed HB 22, which changes the state A-F accountability system in several ways, including reducing the number of domains, introducing locally developed accountability domains, changing the calculation of the summative accountability grade, realigning the unacceptable cut-point at the F rating, and changing the timeline for implementation to August 2018 for districts and August 2019 for campuses. Baseline outcome measures for students who graduated under the Minimum High School Program (MHSP), Recommended High School Program (RHSP), and Distinguished Achievement Program (DAP) were compiled to explore historical trends on key student outcomes, including college readiness, high school graduation, two-year and four-year college enrollment, two-year and four-year college completion, obtainment of workforce certificates, employment, and earnings. [For "House Bill 5 Evaluation: Final Report Highlights and Executive Summary," see ED615737.]
Texas Education Research Center. University of Texas at Austin, Pickle Research Campus, 10100 Burnet Road, Bldg #137 TCB, Rm 1.143A, L4500, Austin, TX 78758; Tel: 512-471-4528; Web site: https://texaserc.utexas.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges; High Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Texas Education Research Center; American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Identifiers - Location: Texas
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