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Austin ISD says backlog of overdue special‑education evaluations is cleared; trustees accept monitoring report
Summary
District leaders told trustees Austin ISD reached 0 overdue initial and reevaluations (target met Dec. 9, 2025) after hiring evaluators, raising salaries, and moving from contractors to an in-house model; trustees praised progress while asking for ongoing quality metrics and monitoring of new statewide voucher-related demand.
Austin Independent School District officials told trustees Thursday that the district has reached a milestone: as of Dec. 9, 2025, the district reported zero initial evaluations and zero reevaluations that exceeded required timelines, fulfilling a board constraint tied to a TEA agreed order.
Superintendent Matias Segura and special‑education leaders credited a combination of structural changes — salary adjustments, the hiring of dozens of full‑time evaluators and related providers, a new digital case‑management system and sustained weekend and clinic testing events — with moving the district from a multi‑thousand‑case backlog to compliance.
"The district has met the constraint progress measure of 0 initial and 0 reevaluations that pass the required timeline as of 12/09/2025," Superintendent Segura told the…
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