Texas Education Agency

CALDER-R&R examines policies addressing teacher shortages and their impact on teachers, student learning, and equity. Two important perspectives undergird the Center's work. First is the understanding that teacher shortages are not a single phenomenon. Instead, they exist in specific subject areas (for example, science and mathematics), among teachers from specific backgrounds (for example, teachers from historically marginalized racial and ethnic backgrounds), in specific schools (for e...

Through a partnership between the Texas Education Agency (TEA), RTI International, and the University of Michigan (UM), this project will assess the impact of the Additional Days School Year (ADSY) initiative on the outcomes of Texas elementary public-school students. Designed to address summer learning loss, ADSY is a critical tool for helping Texas schools and their students recover from COVID-19 disruptions. Established by Texas House Bill 3, ADSY provides half-day formula funding for sch...

Texas will strengthen our infrastructure to improve the usability and usefulness of education data, capitalize on recent legislation to link new data sources to produce public-facing reports, and support our implementation of the latest version of the national Ed-Fi data standards.

This project is a partnership between the American Institutes of Research (AIR) and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to investigate the impact of 2013 Texas House Bill 5 (HB 5) on student outcomes. With the enactment of HB 5, the state's previous high school graduation requirements, which included a requirement that all students complete Algebra II, were replaced with were replaced with the Foundation High School Program (FHSP), which gives students who want to go directly into career and t...