Charter 2022-2023 Template

• TEA has released the 2022-2023 Charter Estimate of State Aid Template for you to estimate funding based on updated student data, as needed for budget purposes during the year.

School FIRST Rating – Preliminary

• Your charter school’s preliminary 2021–2022 Charter Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) rating is based on an analysis of the charter school’s financial data for the fiscal year 2021 (the fiscal period ended June 30, 2021, or August 31, 2021, depending on the ending date of your charter school’s fiscal year) and is now available online.

To access your charter school’s Charter FIRST rating:  

• access the Texas Education Agency (TEA) website by using this link https://tea.texas.gov/; 
• click the Finance and Grants webpage tab link https://tea.texas.gov/finance-and-grants; 
• click the Financial Compliance link https://tea.texas.gov/finance-and-grants/financial-compliance; 
• click the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas link; 
• click the Charter FIRST Rating link for Open-Enrollment Charter Schools and Charter Schools Operated by a Public Institution of Higher Education; and  
• click the 2011—2012 and newer Charter School - Financial Accountability (Select Year from Dropdown) Ratings link.  

If your charter school wishes to appeal an adverse issue it identifies in the preliminary rating; your charter school may submit a written appeal with supporting evidence to the TEA Financial Compliance Division. For the appeal to be considered, TEA must receive it by September 6, 2022. Send your appeal and supporting documentation to the following email address: FinancialAccountability@tea.texas.gov. TEA will issue final ratings to charter schools after they have reviewed any submitted appeals.

Final 2021–2022 Charter FIRST ratings are anticipated to be released in November 2022. After final ratings are released: 

• Within two months of the release of your charter school's final Charter FIRST rating, your charter school must announce and hold a public meeting to distribute a financial management report that explains the charter school’s rating and its performance under each indicator for the current and previous year’s ratings. 
• The report also must provide the financial information described in 19 TAC §109.1001(q)(3). TEA encourages your charter school to include in the report additional information that will be beneficial to stakeholders, especially information explaining any special circumstances that may have affected the charter school’s performance under one or more of the indicators.  
• The required newspaper notice, to inform taxpayers of the meeting, must be published no more than 30 days and no fewer than 10 days before the public meeting. Your charter school may combine the meeting with a scheduled regular meeting of your charter school’s governing board.  
• For full requirements related to the report and meeting, see 19 TAC §109.1001(q).
• For a template that your charter school can use in developing its financial management report, see the TEA Charter FIRST web page.  

If you have questions about your charter school’s Charter FIRST rating, please contact Roger Seemion at (512) 463-3712 or by email at Roger.Seemion@tea.texas.gov. You can also view additional information in the TAA letter about this subject.

Final 2022 College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) Student Listing

Column L (EB/EL Status) of the Final 2022 CCMR Student Listing was updated on Monday, August 1, 2022. Emergent bilingual students/English learners who were year five in U.S. schools were incorrectly reported as M (monitored). The updated listing removed the M (monitored) label from these students.

Additional information can be found on the Performance Reporting Page, or by using the College, Career, and Military Readiness Tracker in TEAL. If you have any other questions, please contact the Performance Reporting Division at (512) 463-9704 or performance.reporting@tea.texas.gov

Revised Planning Amounts are available for the 2022–2023 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Consolidated Federal Grant Application

Local Educational Agency (LEA) revised planning amounts for ESSA formula grant programs are now available and can be viewed on the Entitlements webpage. Revised planning amounts are based on the US Department of Education July Grant Award Notifications and replace previously posted planning amounts which were based on the federal budget tables.

Note: The 2022–2023 Special Education Consolidated Grant Application (Federal) and the 2022–2023 Perkins V: Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century planning amounts have not changed.