Following 4 years of getting too many excessive schoolers prone to not graduating, the Texas Schooling Company is “informally monitoring” the San Antonio Unbiased College District.
Consequently, San Antonio ISD’s college board accredited a “corrective motion plan” from the TEA to enhance the district’s Particular person Graduating Committees throughout a college board assembly Could 12.
Below the Texas Schooling Code, Particular person Graduating Committees (IGCs) are decision-making teams that determine highschool juniors and seniors who failed two or extra end-of-course exams. These college students are then flagged as prone to not graduating.
The committees, legally required by the state, then assign various assignments, programs or initiatives for college students to earn the required credit to graduate.
Lower than 10% of a college district’s Eleventh- and Twelfth-graders must be prone to not graduating — something greater than that invitations TEA scrutiny.
For the reason that COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of juniors and seniors who’ve failed at the least two end-of-course exams at San Antonio ISD, placing their commencement in jeopardy, has ranged between 12% and 14%, stated SAISD Board President Christina Martinez.
At one level, the proportion of scholars prone to not graduating reached 16%, Martinez added.
Below the TEA’s corrective motion plan, campus directors and workers have to be retrained on the present legal guidelines and guidelines associated to IGC implementation by Could 30, offering the TEA proof of coaching by June 6. The plan additionally requires the district to “totally cooperate” with any data or bodily inspection request from the TEA.
District officers should gather and preserve all “student-level” documentation for each scholar who qualifies for intervention by IGCs.
Below San Antonio ISDs commencement committee plan, at-risk college students have the chance to make up their credit by remediation programs on Edgenuity, a web-based studying platform, taken over the subsequent college yr.
The district’s plan is especially centered on particular training and emergent bilingual college students.
“That’s the place we’ve seen the largest intentionality,” Martinez stated.
In accordance with 2024 TEA studies, San Antonio ISD has 16.3% particular training scholar inhabitants with a 24.8% emergent bilingual inhabitants.
The district noticed 2.1% of highschool particular training college students and a pair of.6% of emergent bilingual college students, additionally in highschool, drop out throughout the 2022-23 college yr. In whole, 2.8% of scholars in grades 9 by 12 dropped out that yr.
San Antonio ISD’s present enrollment is about 44,000 college students.
The corrective motion plan comes because the district might probably face state takeover because of failing accountability rankings throughout a few of its campuses.
If the district doesn’t adjust to all of the phrases of the TEA’s corrective motion plan by Dec. 15, 2026, the state might reopen the matter and additional examine the district.
“The TEA may prescribe a brand new degree of intervention,” Martinez stated.
After the casual evaluation course of, the Texas Schooling Commissioner decides on a remaining suggestion, which might embody closing the case altogether, additional monitoring or appointing a conservator and board of managers.
TEA spokesperson Jake Kobersky stated the state is unable to share data on corrective motion plans, together with what number of college districts are beneath a CAP or casual monitoring, since they’re thought-about audit working papers.
“Districts are in a position to share them however we aren’t in a position to share something till a CAP is accomplished,” Kobersky stated.
