What's New Archives (1998–1999)

The following is an archive of the announcements from Performance Reporting. The most recent postings appear first.

11/23/1999: 1998–99 Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) reports - The AEIS reports provide the most comprehensive view of performance for every school, district, region, and the state. The reports also include descriptive information about students, staff, and finances.

10/5/1999: Updates to 1999 Accountability Ratings - These are the final ratings for 1999. They reflect changes that resulted from appeals.

8/16/1999: 1999 Accountability Ratings - Includes ratings for every public school and district in the state along with data tables showing the information used to determine the ratings. For the first time we are showing Additional Acknowledgment for Comparable Improvement.

8/16/1999: Letter sent 8/16/99 - On August 16, 1999 Associate Commissioner Criss Cloudt sent a letter to districts along with their accountability ratings.

7/14/1999: Letter sent 6/28/99 - On June 28, 1999 the Commissioner of Education sent a letter to districts informing them of two new rating categories for the 1999 Accountability Rating System.

5/17/1999: Snapshot '98 – Two significant additions have been made to the Snapshot '98 home page. First, text and exhibits from the '98 publication have been added. Second, a new feature has been added, Peer Search, which allows clients to create district groups with similar characteristics—property wealth, tax effort, district size, and/or district type.

4/22/1999: 1999 Accountability Manual - This manual provides detailed information on how the 1999 accountability ratings will be computed. Those ratings will be released in mid-August.

3/18/1999: Snapshot '98 - Snapshot for the 1997-98 school year is now on the web.

3/18/1999: Snapshot Additions and Improvements - The text and exhibits from the Snapshot '97 publication have been added to the '97 website. (The text and exhibits for Snapshot '98 will be added in April.) Also, the search mechanism for Snapshot '95 and Snapshot '96 has been upgraded. It is now the same searchable structure already in use for Snapshot '97 and Snapshot '98.

2/5/1999: Frequently Asked Questions - A new and improved version of answers to questions about the AEIS and other things is now linked to the AEIS home page.

1/29/1999: 1999 Accountability Ratings System - The Texas Education Agency sent out information to all public schools and districts regarding changes to the ratings system for 1999, as well as information about how performance on the End-of-Course examinations will be used.

11/30/1998: Pocket Edition 1997–98 - This quick reference for education statistics at the state level is now available online.

11/16/1998: 1997–98 Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) reports - The AEIS reports now include TAAS Participation and Comparable Improvement sections. You may access reports for any school, district, or region, as well as the state.

11/3/1998: Multi-Year Ratings Table - The site showing statewide counts of ratings has been expanded to show statewide counts of acknowledgments for additional indicators. These show performance on: College Admissions Tests, TAAS/TASP Equivalency, and Comparable Improvement.

9/3/1998: 1998 Accountability Ratings including year-round education schools and districts - The 1998 ratings site has been updated to include ratings for schools and districts whose ratings were not final on August 3.

8/3/1998: 1998 Accountability Ratings - Ratings for every public school and district in the state. Also, for the first time we are providing school and district data tables showing the information used to determine the ratings.

6/25/1998: Pocket Edition - All prior years. This includes 91–92, 92–93, 93–94, 94–95, as well as 95–96 and 96–97, which were already online.

6/1/1998: Pocket Edition 1995–96 - The 1996–97 Pocket Edition is already online. We are gradually adding prior years of Pocket Edition to our site.

6/1/1998: Table 1 and Table 3 of the 1998 Accountability Manual- These tables provide a quick reference for the standards used for the accountability ratings (Table 1) and for the Additional Acknowledgment (Table 3).

5/28/1998: TAAS Participation Report - This report shows the percent of students at a given school or district who took the TAAS test, and the reasons that some students did not take the test.

4/16/1998: 1998 Accountability Manual - This manual provides detailed information on how the 1998 accountability ratings will be computed. Those ratings will be released in early August.

4/9/1998: AEIS reports for 1993–94 and 1994–95 - These reports replace the older version of the same reports, allowing the user to produce and print AEIS reports for these years.

3/26/1998: Pocket Edition 1996–97 - This quick reference for education statistics is now available online.

3/17/1998: Snapshot '97 - This is a new and improved version of Snapshot online which allows for more "user friendly" access to the data in Snapshot.

2/19/1998: Download Selected AEIS 97 Data - This new "drill down" application allows for the downloading of selected parts of the AEIS data.