CANYON, TEXAS -- Canyon Independent School District was affected by the accountability ratings, but the district was prepared for the quote "inflation to drop."
As a district, Canyon ISD was rated academically acceptable, out of 27 measures they were rated exemplary, nine measures they we rated recognized and in just one category, were rated academically acceptable.
Executive Director of Support Service, Robyn Cranmer said, "We have three academically acceptable campuses, 7 recognized campuses and 5 exemplary campuses, and a note, Canyon High School is the only high school in the region, larger high school, in the region that was rated recognized."
Cranmer says they were prepared for the results of the accountability rating by weighing themselves against results from the past.
“When TPM was removed we expected our rating to look similar to what we were rated last year without TPM, so when we went back and looked at last year’s rating and took TPM out we figured we would fall very similar and we did.”
She says they even had a couple campuses rate a notch higher compared to the last years they were rated without t-p-m.
And that they would compare their ratings against the old because t-p-m had the ability to inflate ratings -- because it looked at students that did not pass and if they were projected to meet the next level it counted them as passing.
“It typically moved some of our campuses from one rating to the next due to that, so it kind of inflated what our actual scores were, it looked good in writing but overall we still always went back to what it was before T.P.M. and that's where we focused.”
Since the state changed the rules, this year’s ratings appear worse to the public than was reported this years’.
