SOS Reports: State Investigation into 14 FBISD Schools!!!

14 FBISD schools eyed for TAKS "irregularities" (click on title link above for the entire SOS breaking news)-

In their first serious effort to identify possible cheating on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, state education officials have flagged 609 schools , 14 in Fort Bend ISD, for irregularities in the way students answered questions last year.

Those flagged for investigation, representing 9 percent of Texas public schools, are not accused of cheating.

FBISD schools on the list (and number of flags for each) are: Clements HS (6), Dulles HS (3), Elkins HS (4), Austin HS (6), Marshall HS (6) and Willowridge HS (2). These campuses had just one "flag" each: Dulles Middle, First Colony Middle, Fort Settlement Middle, Hightower HS, Hodges Bend Middle, Kempner HS, Lake Olympia Middle, Quail Valley Middle.

"Just because a school shows up on the list doesn't necessarily mean there's a problem," TEA spokeswoman Debbie Graves Ratcliffe said. "They could be there because of great teaching."
Last fall, the TEA hired Caveon Test Security, a Utah-based firm, to conduct a pilot study based on April 2005 TAKS scores. . . .


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Comments: Thanks SOS for keeping us posted before local media and other public information sources on this!!!