A judge ruled Thursday that the Texas Education Agency can release its 2023 A-F school accountability ratings for the state’s public school districts, overturning a previous injunction issued in response to a lawsuit from more than 120 districts.
The TEA typically assigns annual A-F ratings to each public school district and campus based on students’ standardized test performance, although it has not done so for all schools and districts in the state since 2019 due to COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing lawsuits.
The TEA updated the formula to calculate ratings starting in 2023, which included raising the bar that schools need to reach to qualify for higher letter grades. However, a judge initially blocked the TEA from officially assigning ratings after around 10% of the state’s roughly 1,200 districts argued that the agency did not provide enough advance notice about the changes…