HB5 Summary

Tom JaggardSocial Studies Specialist

Region Testing CoordinatorEducation Service Center, Region 2

Includes Considerations, Decision Points, and Examples for each aspect of the new

graduation plan.

HB5• Assessment• Graduation• Instruction• Accountability

HB5 – Assessment• STAAR assessments will be released

every year through 2015-2016

HB5 – Assessment• Limits districts to administering

no more than 2 benchmark assessments• Parents of students with special needs

may request additional assessments

HB5 – Assessment• Counting “Years in US Schools” for ELLs• Requires 60 consecutive days

to count as a “Year in US Schools”

HB5 – Assessment• EOC 15% Rule

Eliminated completely• EOCs

Reduced from 15 tests to 5 testsEliminated the Cumulative Score*Eliminated the Minimum Score** Except for ELA transition plan

STAAR/EOC

Math ELA Science Social StudiesAlgebra IGeometry Algebra II

English IEnglish IIEnglish III

BiologyChemistryPhysics

World GeographyWorld HistoryU.S. History

HB3 Graduation Requirements

To graduate, a student must achieve a Cumulative Score in each content area that is equal to the product of the number of STAAR/EOC assessments taken in the content area times the Satisfactory Academic Performance scale score.

STAAR/EOC

Math ELA Science Social StudiesAlgebra I English I

English IIBiology

U.S. History

HB5 Graduation Requirements

To graduate, a student must achieve Level II – Satisfactory Academic Performance

on each of these five EOCs.

• Replacing MHSP/RHSP/DAP with Foundation + Endorsements

• Applies to new freshman in 2014-2015

HB5 – Graduation

NOTE: Distinguished Level of Achievement

will be required for automatic top 10% college admission.

• Replacing MHSP/RHSP/DAP with Foundation + Endorsements

• Applies to new freshman in 2014-2015• 2014-2015: Students enrolled in one of the old

plans can switch to the new plan• 2013-2014: 4th-year high school students

on track to graduate in May, 2014 may graduate under the Foundation Plan if they fall short of earning RHSP/DAP

HB5 – Graduation

• Replacing MHSP/RHSP/DAP with Foundation + Endorsements

• SBOE held hearings in September, 2013 to get input regarding the new plans

• SBOE will draft rules in November, 2013 to be published for comment

• SBOE intends to finalize these rules at their meeting in January, 2014

HB5 – Graduation

HB5 – Instruction• School Day Interruptions• A district may not remove a student

(without written parental consent)from a regularly-scheduled class for “remedial tutoring or test preparation” more than 10% of the scheduled class time

HB5 – Accountability• Each district must evaluate its performance

in community and student engagement using locally-developed criteria

• Each district must rate itself as Exemplary, Recognized, Acceptable, or Unacceptable

• Ratings must be published by August 8, 2014• TEA will develop a ratings reporting process to

collect this information from LEAs

HB5 – Accountability• District Ratings

A-B-C-D-F• Campus Ratings

ExemplaryRecognizedAcceptableUnacceptable

New labels to be usedin 2016-2017.

ATAC and APAC aremeeting this fall todiscuss changes for2014 accountability.

Commissioner’s Proposed Rule Changes

“The following policy changes – which will be proposed and adopted under commissioner of education rules – are designed to assist districts in implementing newrequirements under House Bill 5 (HB5), as well as follow established federal requirements, related to the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness.”

– TEA Press Release on August 2, 2013

Commissioner’s Proposed Rule Changes

• Performance Standards• Phase-in 1 extended for one more year• Timing of Phase-in 2 and Final are TBD• Students “lock in” a phase-in standard for

all EOCs when they take their first EOC

Commissioner’s Proposed Rule Changes

• STAAR EOC for English I and English II• Reading and Writing combined in Spring 2014• Blueprint has been posted!

Commissioner’s Proposed Rule Changes

• STAAR EOC for English I and English II• Reading and Writing combined in Spring 2014• Blueprint has been posted!• Transition plan maintains minimum score

and cumulative score for students who have already passed reading or writing but not both

• ELL Special Provision only applies to English I

Commissioner’s Proposed Rule Changes

• Middle school students taking Algebra I• Federal accountability requires math and

reading to be tested in grades 3-8 and at least once in high school

• Take Algebra I EOC and grade-level STAAR• Grade-level STAAR for MS accountability• Algebra I follows student for HS accountability

Commissioner’s Proposed Rule Changes

• Middle school students taking English I• Federal accountability requires math and

reading to be tested in grades 3-8 and at least once in high school

• Will take English II to satisfy high school accountability so no double-testing needed when they take English I in middle school

Commissioner’s Proposed Rule Changes

• STAAR Modified• The U.S. Department of Education has informed

states that assessments based on modified standards for students served by special education cannot be used for accountability purposes after the 2013–2014 school year.

• As a result of that federal directive, all STAAR Modified assessments will be administered for the final time in the 2013–2014 assessment cycle.

Commissioner’s Proposed Rule Changes

• STAAR Alternate• HB5 requires TEA to develop an alternate

assessment for the most severely cognitively disabled students – one that does not require teachers to prepare tasks or materials.

• This newly designed alternate assessment will be administered for the first time in the spring of the 2014–2015 school year.

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Tom.Jaggard@esc2.us 361.779.9574