T.E.A. State list targets Pittsburg, area schools

By Jeremy Weber
jweber@campcountynow.com

The Texas Education Acency’s new scoring system for standardized testing in schools is once again causing headaches across the state with last week’s release of the list of schools identified under the Public Education Grant (PEG) Program.
The list, effective for the 2014-2015 school year, identifies campuses with TAKS/STAAR passing rates that are less than or equal to 50 percent in any two of the preceding three years or were rated Academically Unacceptable in 2011 or rated Improvement Required in 2013, according to the TEA. No ratings were issued in 2012.
Both Pittsburg High School and Pittsburg Elementary were named on the list despite the fact that Pittsburg ISD as a whole met 98 percent of the TEA’s “System Safeguards” for its scores on the 2013 STAAR test.
The school’s inclusion on the new listing stems from their STAAR testing results, which the district received in August. Under the STAAR testing system, each campus is measured against four categories, including overall student achievement, student progress, closing performance gaps and postsecondary readiness. It is the student progress scores that have landed Pittsburg High

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