District’s writing plan under fire after drop in STAAR performance

Anxiety over lagging 2017 State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) scores was expressed by Hays CISD leaders after preliminary results for the district were released last month.

Joy Philpott, Hays CISD director of assessment and accountability, said the district’s writing scores for 2017 were down from last year. The trend was reversed from a year previous when the district’s writing scores improved significantly.

High school English I and II scores reflected the writing struggles seen across the district.