Wylie ISD drops letter grade under new TEA guidelines
ABILENE, Texas () – Wylie ISD's 2022 'A' rating is expected to be downgraded to a 'B' rating due to new guidelines from the Texas Education Agency.
District officials shared a press release on Wednesday, ahead of the TEA ratings, which will be released on Thursday.
The release confirms that Wylie ISD will receive a rating of '87' for the 2023 school year. Their rating for 2022 is also expected to be downgraded from '94' to '89' due to new grading criteria.
Abilene ISD says district 'has work to do', as another 'C' rating expected from TEA
Superintendent Joey Light shared, 'The bar moved higher for every district in Texas, yet ourBulldogs kept pushing forward. Test scores matter, but they capture only part of the innovation, character, and community spirit that define Wylie ISD.'
As for why this change occurred, Light shared that TEA changed the framework to achieve an 'A,' resulting in many schools receiving a letter-grade drop.
'This year marks the first official use of the redesigned system, which, among several shifts, raised the cut‑score for a district to earn an 'A' in the College, Career & Military Readiness metric from 60 percent to 88 percent. The higher standard led many districts across the state to see letter‑grade drops even as student performance improved. Legal challenges from more than 100 districts delayed the release for months, underscoring widespread concern about rolling out the formula mid‑cycle.' Light explained.
Wylie ISD superintendent takes the wheel as bus driver
BigCountryHomepage.com will publish more on TEA ratings for schools across the area once they are released.
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
ESPN's FPI Has a New No. 1 Team Before the 2025 College Football Season
ESPN's FPI Has a New No. 1 Team Before the 2025 College Football Season originally appeared on Athlon Sports. We're roughly three months away from the start of the 2025 college football season. To no surprise, the Texas Longhorns are one of the most talked about teams in the country. After reaching the College Football Playoff semifinal the last two seasons, coupled with phenom Arch Manning taking over at quarterback, there's understandably high expectations for Texas this year. Advertisement According to ESPN's updated FPI (Football Power Index), the Longhorns are now the No. 1 team in the nation for the upcoming season. The update released on June 2 places Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State and Penn State behind Texas. Ohio State is the reigning national champion and deserves its placing in the top five, but the Buckeyes will have to host the Longhorns for the first game of the season on Aug. 30. The winner of this non-conference matchup should become the heavy favorite to take home the national title. It's hard to argue against Steve Sarkisian's squad holding the top spot in the ranking. Texas returns numerous playmakers on both sides of the ball, including Anthony Hill, Colin Simmons, Michael Taaffe, Ryan Wingo and Cedric Baxter among others. Advertisement The Longhorns also landed several immediate impact players via the transfer portal this offseason. One of the key additions via the portal is former Cal tight end Jack Endris. With former starting tight end Gunnar Helm departing for the NFL, Endris is expected to start at the position for the Longhorns this year. He's ranked the No. 2 tight end in the nation per PFF. We'll see if Texas can live up to the massive expectations soon enough. Related: ESPN FPI Reveals Which SEC Teams Are Locks to Make College Football Playoff This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 4, 2025, where it first appeared.
Forbes
5 days ago
- Forbes
Fewer Students Stopped Out Of College Last Year, And More Returned
More than one million Americans who had previously dropped out of college returned to school in ... More academic year 2023-2024. Nonetheless, the number of adults who have left college without earning any credential increased nationally. For the second year in a row, the number of students leaving college without earning a credential has declined, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Released today, the Some College, No Credential (SCNC) report also found that more students who had previously left college without earning a degree were re-enrolling. More than 1 million SCNC students re-enrolled in the 2023-24 academic year, an increase of 66,000 (+7.0%) over the previous year. The number of students who 'stopped out' of college without a credential also declined from the previous year by about 156,000. The progress was widespread, with 42 states and the District of Columbia realizing increases in the number of students re-enrolling in college compared to the previous year. The gains ranged from a .7% increase in Washington, DC, to a 35.2% surge in Massachusetts. Among states showing a decrease in re-enrollments, Oklahoma experienced the largest decline year-over-year, at 13.8%. 'It is inspiring to see that over one million adults returned to campuses last year—the most we've ever recorded,' said Doug Shapiro, Executive Director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, in a news release. 'They're reviving college aspirations that had been put on hold years before. And states and institutions are working to make it even easier for more students to do so in the future.' The report defines SCNC individuals as people between the ages of 18 and 64 years of age who stopped out of college for at least three terms prior to the start of the academic year and had not earned any credential. At the start of the 2023-2024 academic year, there were nearly 43.1 million SCNC students; of those, 37.6 million were working-age adults. Even with the recent increases in re-enrollment, the report cautions that the improvement represents less than 3% of working-age SCNC adults. So while it's true that fewer students stopped out of college year over year, that has not been enough to stem the overall growth of the SCNC population, which has risen in all 50 states and the District of Columbia over the last three years. Among those SCNC students returning to school in 2023-2024, 4.7% earned a credential — including certificates, associate's and bachelor's degrees — within their first year of re-enrollment, a slight improvement over the prior year; 14.1% did so within two years of their return. More women than men re-enroll in college after stopping out, but men have a slight advantage in the two-year rate of earning their first credential (14.2%) vs. 13.9% among women. Black and Hispanic students return to college after stopping out at equal or greater rates than their Asian and white peers. However, white and Asian returnees earn a credential after returning at higher rates than other racial/ethnic groups. The report recommends that states seeking to increase the percentage of adults with a post-secondary credential focus on two subgroups of students who've demonstrated better re-enrollment and completion outcomes than the SCNC group overall. Those are potential completers and recent stop-outs. Potential completers have already completed at least two years' worth of academic credits in the past decade; they constitute about 2.7 million (or 7.2%) of the SCNC population. Recent stop-outs are newly identified SCNC individuals — those students who have stopped out between January, 2022 and July, 2023; roughly 2.1 million students (about 5.6% of SCNC individuals) are in this group. Across the past three years, potential completers demonstrate a number of advantages in their college outcomes compared to the rest of the SCNC population. For example they are about three times more likely to re-enroll in college than other SCNC students. They are also more likely to earn a credential in their first year of return (8.4%) than the rest of the SCNC group (3.8%), an edge that grows when considering second-year credential rates (22% versus 12.2%). Recent stop-outs are much more likely to re-enroll than students who have been stopped out for a longer period, and they are also more likely to enroll at the same institution they previously attended rather than transfer to another school. This pattern suggests that outreach strategies might be targeted at these relatively recent students, particularly by community colleges, which is the sector to which SCNC students most often return. According to the report, about one out of four SCNC students earned a credential without ever re-enrolling in college. Although it does not quantify the reasons for this outcome, it's likely due primarily to the reverse transfer policies adopted by several states allowing students who've dropped out of two-year colleges to add the credits they later earn at a four-year school and then be retroactively awarded an associate's degree. A similar program is the Colorado Re-Engaged (CORE) initiative, where former students who've completed at least 70 credits towards their bachelor's degree but then dropped out of college are awarded an associate's degree. The report found that, despite having the twentieth-largest SCNC population, Colorado had the seventh-highest number of first credential earners, aided by the large number of associate degrees earned by SCNC individuals who had not re-enrolled. In other cases, colleges have removed barriers that may have prevented awarding degrees to students who've already earned the required credits. For example. some schools have ended their policy of withholding degrees from students who have unpaid fines or tuition bills. The report's bottom line is a mixture of good and bad news. It's encouraging to see an increase in students' re-engagement with college, but in the big scheme of things, that improvement represents only a relatively tiny share of the SCNC working adult population. Fewer students might be stopping out year over year, but their retention and the return of former drop-outs has not been enough to stop the growth of the SCNC population, which continues to rise nationwide. The NSCRC is the research arm of the National Student Clearinghouse. It collaborates with higher education institutions, states, school districts, high schools, and educational organizations to gather accurate longitudinal data that can be used to guide educational policy decisions. NSCRC analyzes data from 3,600 postsecondary institutions, which represented 97% of the nation's postsecondary enrollment in Title IV degree-granting institutions in the U.S., as of 2020. The 2025 Some College, No Credential report, the sixth in a series, was created with the support of Lumina Foundation.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
Houston ISD Faces Extended TEA Control Until 2027, New Board Appointed
(Texas Scorecard) – Houston Independent School District will remain under the control of the Texas Education Agency through at least June 1, 2027. Alongside the extended timeline, TEA also announced the replacement of four members of the state-appointed Board of Managers. TEA took control of Houston ISD in 2023 after years of chronic student underperformance and governance failures. The state replaced the elected school board, appointed Superintendent Mike Miles, and implemented a series of aggressive reforms. Since the takeover, Houston ISD has reduced the number of D- and F-rated campuses from 121 in 2023 to 41 in 2024, according to preliminary reporting. Despite progress, TEA Commissioner Mike Morath emphasized the need for continued state involvement to ensure long-term improvement. 'Houston ISD has always been a district with some of the highest performing schools in the country, but it was also a district that allowed some of its schools to fail students for over a decade,' Morath said. Ultimately, two years has not been enough time to fix district systems that were broken for decades. The extension of this intervention will allow the district to build on its progress and achieve lasting success for students once the board transitions back to elected leadership. To conclude the intervention, Houston ISD must eliminate all multi-year failing campuses, fully comply with state and federal special education laws, and demonstrate effective board governance. Earlier this year, Houston ISD spent hundreds of millions of dollars without the required board approval. Community reactions remain divided. Parent and advocacy groups praised the focus on student achievement, while critics have questioned the transparency of the appointment process and urged greater community input. The new Houston ISD Board appointees are: Edgar Colón: Legal expert and political science lecturer Lauren Gore: Harvard Law graduate and general partner at LDR Growth Partners Marty Goossen: Retired vice chairman of J.P. Morgan Private Bank Marcos Rosales: Trial lawyer at Beck Redden LLP Brina Morales, director of communications for the Greater Houston Partnership, celebrated the TEA extension, writing, 'Commissioner Morath is right to extend the period of reform to ensure these improvements take hold long-term, significantly impacting generations of students.'
