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ACTION REQUIRED December 10, 2009 TO THE SUPERINTENDENT ADDRESSED: The 2008-09 School Report Cards (SRC) for the campuses in your district are now available from the Texas Education Agency’s website at:
Distribution to Campuses. The principals of the campuses in your district will be notified by email that their SRC is available. However, it is the district’s responsibility to provide the SRCs to the campuses for distribution to the parents. On written request, the school district is required to provide a copy of a school report card to any other party. Distribution to Parents. The SRC must be disseminated to parents within six calendar weeks after notification from TEA that it is available. The winter holiday does not count toward the six weeks. The campus administration may provide the SRC in the same manner it normally transmits official communications to parents and guardians, such as including the SRC in a weekly folder sent home with each student, mailing it to the student’s residence, providing it at a teacher-parent conference, or enclosing it with the student report card. While you are required, at a minimum, to provide SRCs to parents, you are not limited to providing just this information. You may want to supplement the report by including information that highlights other areas of improvement and accomplishments of your schools. Schools without an SRC. Some schools will not have an SRC. Generally, these are schools that meet two criteria: they serve special populations of students; and, they do not have TAKS results. Examples are the Juvenile Justice and Disciplinary Alternative Education Program campuses, and schools serving only the early education through kindergarten grades. Schools that are new in 2009-10 also will not have a 2008-09 SRC. Schools without a TEA-generated SRC are not required to distribute a report. Schools with an SRC. Schools with sufficient TAKS data to receive an accountability rating, charter schools, and schools that have been paired for accountability purposes will have an SRC. Schools paired for accountability rating purposes will have an SRC even though they do not have TAKS results of their own. Paired schools must distribute their SRC.
The text of this email is posted at the Texas Education Agency Correspondence site. Links at the bottom allow for access to the attachments (the sample cover letters and the Definitions) in an electronic format: If parents have follow-up questions about the information provided, the Glossary produced for the 2008-09 Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) reports contains detailed definitions and sources of data for all the information included in the SRC. The data in the SRC is a subset of that published in the AEIS reports. The Glossary can be viewed and/or downloaded from the following website address: Should you wish to review the Commissioner of Education rules governing the School Report Card, see 19 TAC § 61.1021, located on the agency’s website at: We hope that you find this material informative and helpful. If, after careful reading of the enclosed materials you have questions regarding the SRC, please contact the Division of Performance Reporting at the email address shown below. Contact Information Attachments School Report Card Definitions (English) - a PDF file |