The Preliminary 2023 Accountability Manual, Chapters 1—12, are available here. Chapters 1–12 are open for public comment from May 19, 2023, to June 20, 2023. Details on the public comment period and how to submit comments can be found at Proposed Commissioner of Education Rules | Texas Education Agency.

The final 2023 Accountability Manual will be published in Fall 2023.

TEA has released updates to A-F Accountability 

• IBC's and accountability have changed!
• Reference this Letter to the Administrator from 01/02/2023

The Preliminary 2023 A–F System Framework has continued to progress based on stakeholder feedback and detailed modeling since the updated version was released in November 2022. More recent updates are outlined in January Updates to Preliminary A–F Refresh Framework, including: 

• STAAR proficiency cut scores remain unchanged from 2017 to account for COVID-19 and the STAAR redesign. 
• STAAR growth measured in School Progress, Part A: Academic Growth has been updated to evaluate outcomes for accelerated learning as bonus points. 
• The transition plan to integrate Program of Study requirements with industry-based certifications (IBCs) has been deferred one year; the transition plan maintains the Completer requirement when fully implemented. 
• Sunsetting IBCs will continue to generate College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) credit, but a per campus limit will be applied based on students who only qualify for CCMR credit via a sunsetting IBC. The limit ensures that districts offer their students multiple paths for postsecondary success and is set at five graduates, or 20 percent of graduates, whichever is higher. Based on modeled data, the sunsetting IBC limit will impact a very small number of campuses and ensures that cut scores are not unfairly driven up by high CCMR scores that rely heavily on sunsetting IBCs alone.