Posted 11:41 am Thursday, October 28, 2010
Bullard High School, ISD Status Upgraded To Academically Acceptable
By KELLY GOOCH
Staff Writer
BULLARD — Bullard ISD and Bullard High School will be rated academically acceptable now that the Texas Education Agency has granted an appeal of the district's state accountability rating.
Staff Writer
BULLARD — Bullard ISD and Bullard High School will be rated academically acceptable now that the Texas Education Agency has granted an appeal of the district's state accountability rating.
Superintendent Keith Bryant said the district received a letter today from Commissioner of Education Robert Scott notifying officials of the new rating. The district was rated academically unacceptable in July.
The appeals were based upon two students, neither of whom graduated from Bullard within four years. Both left the district.
“I'm very pleased with the decision,” Bryant said. “I think it was the right decision based on the unusual circumstances we had with the two students we appealed. We're very excited to have our rating for our district and campus elevated.”
The district was rated academically unacceptable because of its high school completion rate.
Completion rates are based on how many freshmen the district had in 2005-06 compared to how many graduated in 2009 or continued high school.
Bryant said the first student whose status was appealed was in the district three weeks in 2006 and was then placed in the Smith County Juvenile Detention Center.
Her family eventually moved to Alabama, but she was never enrolled in school.
“We found out she gets to Alabama, her dad dies and her grandmother hasn't heard from her since,” Bryant has said.
The district also appealed a student who was a senior in line to graduate under the recommended high school program.
Bryant said the student was incarcerated in the Smith County Jail from April 30, 2009, to Oct. 5, 2009. The student received his diploma Oct. 26, 2009.
Both students counted against the district in its completion rate.
For more details, see tomorrow's Tyler Morning Telegraph.
“I'm very pleased with the decision,” Bryant said. “I think it was the right decision based on the unusual circumstances we had with the two students we appealed. We're very excited to have our rating for our district and campus elevated.”
The district was rated academically unacceptable because of its high school completion rate.
Completion rates are based on how many freshmen the district had in 2005-06 compared to how many graduated in 2009 or continued high school.
Bryant said the first student whose status was appealed was in the district three weeks in 2006 and was then placed in the Smith County Juvenile Detention Center.
Her family eventually moved to Alabama, but she was never enrolled in school.
“We found out she gets to Alabama, her dad dies and her grandmother hasn't heard from her since,” Bryant has said.
The district also appealed a student who was a senior in line to graduate under the recommended high school program.
Bryant said the student was incarcerated in the Smith County Jail from April 30, 2009, to Oct. 5, 2009. The student received his diploma Oct. 26, 2009.
Both students counted against the district in its completion rate.
For more details, see tomorrow's Tyler Morning Telegraph.
