Dallas ISD will be the largest district to jump into the legal fight and push for a temporary injunction.
The suit was originally filed by seven smaller districts, including Kingsville, Canutillo and Crowley ISDs. In the weeks since, several other school boards have voted to join.of the state’s new system for grading schools. She worries DISD could earn the largest number of D and F ratings in the district’s history because of the revised formula.Morath has repeatedly said that the changes to the system are due as part of a five-year cycle.
The lawsuit alleges that Morath didn’t give districts enough notice about what measures, methods and procedures would be applied to their new scores. He said the delay was not related to the legal action, but rather the need to recalibrate some metrics to better account for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ academic growth.Last year, nearly three-quarters of Texas schools earned an A or B.
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