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Lindale ISD Wins State Appeal

Posted/updated on: December 14, 2012 at 1:36 am
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LINDALE — The Lindale Independent School District has won an appeal with the Texas Education Agency for 2012 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results. All campuses and the district have met the federal accountability standard.

Preliminary results indicated Velma Penny Elementary School was the only LISD campus to not meet AYP. LISD requested TEA reconsider the mathematics performance indicator for Velma Penny due to the reconfiguration of grades served by the campus during the 2011-2012 school year. Prior to 2011, Velma Penny served students in grades 3-4. In August 2011, the campus began serving students in grades 1-3.

LISD requested that TEA consider the reconfigured school a new campus after receiving guidance from the state agency. In a notification letter to LISD, Commissioner of Education Michael L. Williams wrote, “After careful agency review, the miscommunication with TEA staff may have had an impact on the district decisions. For this reason, the mathematics performance indicator appeal has been granted.”

AYP is the federally mandated accountability system required by the No Child Left Behind Act and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. All public school districts, campuses and the state are evaluated for AYP.



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