College Preparatory Courses for CCMR Accountability

In the 2024-2025 school year, TEA is implementing a process to review and approve college preparatory courses that count for college, career and military readiness (CCMR) credit in the public-school accountability system.

The College Preparatory Courses for Accountability process aims to ensure that college preparatory courses (defined in Texas Education Code (TEC), §28.014) align with standards consistent with other indicators of college readiness.  Under TEC, §28.014, college preparatory courses in English language arts and mathematics are courses developed through partnership(s) between a school district and at least one institution of higher education (IHE). 

College preparatory course providers that wish to participate must submit an application that includes narrative responses and data files indicating their interest to be considered an approved provider of a college preparatory course that counts toward the College, Career and Military readiness (CCMR) credit in the public-school accountability system. 

If an institution chooses not to submit materials for consideration, their college preparatory courses will not be included on the official list of approved courses that count toward a school district's accountability measures for College, Career and Military Readiness (CCMR).  College preparatory courses may still exist and operate independent of this TEA process, but only those approved by TEA through this process are eligible for TEA's CCMR accountability consideration.

TEA will work with faculty reviewers to assess submitted application materials for college preparatory courses for public school accountability through a comprehensive review process. Each college preparatory course approved for public school accountability will be assigned a unique Service ID enabling data collection related to participation and outcomes.

Important Information

Eligible College Preparatory Course for Public School Accountability Provider Applicants:

• Institutions of Higher Education (IHE)
• Education Service Centers that have an agreement to partner with an IHE to offer college preparatory courses that will be accepted at that partnering institution
• Entities that have Memorandums of Understanding with IHE to offer college preparatory courses that will be accepted at that partnering institution

Please be advised that the responsibility to apply to offer college preparatory courses that count toward College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) credit in the public school accountability system lies with the college preparatory course providers, such as Institutions of Higher Education or Education Service Centers.

School districts may not apply for approval on behalf of their course providers.

A provider of an approved College Preparatory Course for Public School Accountability must:

• have served students in 2021-2022 and still be actively serving students,
• apply through Qualtrics to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) that includes three .csv files containing previous college preparatory course participation (district Information for 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024),
• undergo a quality review of the application by faculty reviewers from across the state

The course review process will result in the following:

• A 2025-2030 college preparatory course for public school accountability list of approved providers
• Assignment of a unique Service ID for each approved college preparatory English language arts courses and each college preparatory mathematics course approved for credit in the public-school accountability system
• Continuous improvement to support consistent high-quality courses for students

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College Preparatory Courses for CCMR Accountability Timeline

The College Preparatory Courses for CCMR Accountability timeline is as follows:

• College Preparatory Course for CCMR Accountability Provider Interest Form open on November 20, 2024 and available through January 10, 2025
• College Preparatory Course for CCMR Accountability Provider Application available November 20, 2024 through January 31, 2025
• Application scoring and faculty review January through March 2025
• College Preparatory Course Provider status notification March 2025
• College Preparatory Course Providers begin serving students with unique service IDs in Fall 2025