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PERRYTON ISD presents TAPR; board questions data lags and new accelerated-testing rule
Summary
District staff presented the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) and fielded board questions about lagging indicators, math performance and a new requirement that some accelerated students take the ACT or SAT. Board members asked staff to explore fee supports and to return with follow-up information.
The superintendent presented the district's Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) during the board's regular meeting, noting the report is posted on the district website and included in the board packet. "Inside your board packet is our TAPR that is on the website now," the superintendent said, adding a one-page summary prepared for trustees to compare this year's results with last year's.
Board members focused on several accountability issues: a set of lagging indicators that appear in the TAPR (including CCMR and certain attendance figures), recent changes the state is making to daily data reporting, and a recently surfaced requirement that students who take Algebra I in eighth grade also be administered the ACT or SAT. Curriculum staff explained the TAPR contains star scores, graduation and CCMR metrics and that some indicators reflect older, cleaned-up data because of state reporting windows. "Some of that is because it takes two years or more than a year to clean it up," a curriculum staff member said, citing CCMR and attendance as examples.
Trustees pressed staff on the accelerated-testing rule and its implications for district accountability measures. Board members said the state's requirement that accelerated testers take the ACT or SAT can penalize a district's CCR (college, career and military readiness) score when students do not later pursue college or report their postsecondary outcomes. A trustee asked whether the district can pay test fees for students to reduce a financial barrier; staff said they are researching options. "We're working on some possibilities... to provide the fees," a staff member said.
Trustees also queried a homeless-rate figure in the packet. Staff referred trustees to the specific TAPR page and said certain counts will change once state reporting is reconciled. The curriculum staff described ongoing changes in how the state will receive data and said daily reporting may shorten the lag between events and when they appear in statewide accountability reports. "They're going through a big change, where a lot of that data is going to be sent to the state on a daily basis," staff said.
The board did not take formal action on the TAPR at the meeting; trustees requested further follow-up on the accelerated-testing requirement, potential fee supports, and any district steps to address declining math indicators. Staff said they would return with more detail at a future meeting.
