TEA authority question

[FridayNiteLites]

This is a question about the Texas Education Agency. Some info about the situation. The school where I currently teach was rated unacceptable by the TEA because of TAKS scores. We are now having to jump through hoops, almost hourly it seems, to provide TEA with data about testing and other issues. My questions to you: What authority does the TEA have to do this? What happens if we don't comply with their mandate? Do they control school funding or is that a constitutional right? Thanks.

 

[Larry T. Spider]

They have the ability to close a campus or an entire district. I don't know what process they have to go through but they have the ability to shut you down.

From wiki: This can be in the form of requiring the district to submit corrective action plans and regular status reports, assigning monitors to oversee operations (including the authority to assign a management board, which essentially replaces and performs the duties of the elected school board), and in extreme cases closure of a school campus or even the entire school district.