Archived Information Texas High School Initiative

1
Archived InformationTexas High School Initiative

• National High School Leadership Summit
• December 23, 2004

Barbara Knaggs Office of Education
Initiatives Texas Education Agency
2
Texas High Schools Today
3
Texas High School Today

• Exit-Level TAKS Results
• Pass Rate
• Spring 2003 49
• Spring 2004 72

4
Texas High Schools Today

• Postsecondary Enrollment Rates
• A 2002 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  study showed that 56 percent of all 1999-2000
  public high school graduates enrolled in Texas
  public higher education within two years of high
  school graduation.

5
Texas High Schools Today

• Advanced Placement Participation
• From 1987 to 2003, growth in participation in AP
  in Texas greatly outpaced growth in participation
  in the nation.
• 1987 2003
• Texas 8,792 90,880
• Nation 259,222 998,329

6
Texas High Schools Today

• Advanced Placement Participation
• From 1995 to 2003, Hispanic and African American
  students increased as a percentage of AP test
  takers.
• 1995 2003
• Hispanic 16.9 26.3
• African American 3.5 6.1

7
Texas High Schools Today
8
Texas High Schools Today
9
Texas High Schools Today

• College Readiness
• Percent of Students Met THECB Standard for Higher
  Education Readiness
• English LA Math
• All Students 28 42
• African American 18 21
• Hispanic 20 28
• White 36 55

10
Texas High Schools Today

• Higher Education Participation Rates
• Participation Rate
• Hispanic 3.7
• African American 4.6
• White 5.0
• Nation 5.4

11
Texas High Schools Today

• College Success
• The number of Hispanic and African American
  students who receive bachelors degrees is well
  below their proportions in the states
  population.

12
New Vision for Texas

• All Texas high school students will graduate
  prepared for the full range of postsecondary
  opportunities.

13
How We Achieve the Vision

• Promote a rigorous curriculum
• Ensure that every student is taught by a highly
  qualified, effective teacher
• Build leadership capacity for reform
• Foster multiple pathways for learning

14
Programs Promoting a Rigorous Curriculum

• Texas High School Completion and Success Grants,
  Cycle 1 and 2
• Personalized Study Guide
• Texas Accelerated Science Achievement Program
• Texas Math Diagnostic
• Science Diagnostic

15
Programs Promoting a Rigorous Curriculum

• Texas High School Completion and Success Grants
• 38 million in grants awarded to 220 school
  districts
• Targeted to under-performing high schools
• Funding provided for programs designed to
  increase student achievement and college
  readiness and improve graduation rates

16
Programs Promoting a Rigorous Curriculum

• Texas Accelerated Science Achievement Program
• Funding provided for after-school and summer
  school acceleration programs in science
• Targeted to under-performing high schools and
  high schools with low passing rates on science
  portion of Exit-level assessment
• Approximately 10 million in state funding
  available

17
Programs Ensuring a Highly Qualified Teacher in
Every Classroom

• Teacher Quality Grants
• TEXTEAMS Mentoring Academies
• Texas AM University System Mathematics
  Achievement Project

18
Programs Ensuring a Highly Qualified Teacher in
Every Classroom

• Teacher Quality Grants
• Designed in collaboration with Texas Higher
  Education Coordinating Board
• Supports the development of teacher training
  courses in math and science for grade 6-12
  teachers
• Funded 95 sites to provide courses to teachers

19
Programs Ensuring a Highly Qualified Teacher in
Every Classroom

• TEXTEAMS Mentoring Academies
• Provides professional development, instructional
  materials, and resources to principals and
  science teachers at high need campuses
• Focuses on using data to drive instruction to
  improve scores on state science assessments
• Funding for 20 Mentoring Academies

20
Programs Building Leadership Capacity

• Breaking Ranks II Statewide High School Summit
• Breaking Ranks II Trainer of Trainers Model

21
Programs Fostering Multiple Pathways for Learning

• Comprehensive School ReformTexas High School
  Initiative
• Texas High School Redesign and Restructuring
  Grant
• Middle College/Early College High School
  Expansion Grant

22
Programs Fostering Multiple Pathways for Learning

• Texas High School ProjectEarly College High
  School Initiative
• Texas High School ProjectRedesigned High School
  Initiative
• Texas High School ProjectNew Schools Initiative

23
Programs Fostering Multiple Pathways for Learning

• Comprehensive School ReformTexas High School
  Initiative
• Directed half of Title I, Part FCSR funding to
  high schools
• Awarded 12 million to 83 high school campuses
• Provides funding for innovative, schoolwide
  improvements, covering all aspects of a high
  schools operations

24
Programs Fostering Multiple Pathways for Learning

• Texas High School Redesign and Restructuring
  Grant
• Funding to build capacity for schoolwide reform
  at high schools that have been designated as
  low-performing under the Texas Accountability
  Rating system
• Aligned with state sanctions regarding
  low-performing campuses

25
Programs Fostering Multiple Pathways for Learning

• Texas High School ProjectEarly College High
  School Initiative
• Establishes 15 small high schools that integrate
  college/K-12 instructional programs, enabling
  students to graduate with an Associates degree
  or 60 hours toward a baccalaureate degree
• Schools target Hispanic and African American
  students and first-generation college-goers

26
Programs Fostering Multiple Pathways for Learning

• Texas High School ProjectRedesigned High School
  Initiative
• Funds the redesign of existing comprehensive high
  schools into smaller, focused learning
  communities
• New smaller schools will offer a challenging
  curriculum with personal attention and high
  expectations for all students
• Inviting proposals from seven districts in high
  need areas of the state

27
Programs Fostering Multiple Pathways for Learning

• Texas High School ProjectNew Schools Initiative
• Funds the replication of successful models by
  high-performing school operators
• Creates a network of quality high schools in
  areas of need throughout the state
• Inviting proposals from selected new school
  operators

28
Resources

• Texas Education Agency Division of Discretionary
  Grants
• www.tea.state.tx.us/opge/disc/index.html
• Texas High School ProjectCommunities Foundation
  of Texas
• www.cftexas.org

29
Contact Information

• For more information about the Texas High School
  Initiative, please contact Christi Martin or
  Barbara Knaggs.
• Christi Martin Barbara Knaggs
• Senior Advisor Program Manager
• Education Initiatives Education Initiatives
• Texas Education Agency Texas Education Agency
• William B. Travis Building William B. Travis
  Building
• 1701 N. Congress Avenue 1701 N. Congress Avenue
• Austin, TX 78701 Austin, TX 78701
• [phone] [phone]
• christi.martin_at_tea.state.tx.us
  barbara.knaggs_at_tea.state.tx.us