A state appeals court has ruled the Texas Education Agency can release its 2023 ratings of the state's school districts, overturning a previous injunction in a legal battle that has stretched 19 months. The 15th Court of Appeals-all Republicans appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott-argued on Thursday that TEA Commissioner Mike Morath did not overstep his authority when he changed the college readiness metrics that help determine schools' performance ratings. "It is not our role as judges to decide whether the Commissioner's decisions were necessary or fair. The Districts' burden…was to show the Commissioner acted 'without legal authority,' not that he should have exercised his discretion another way," Chief Justice Scott Brister wrote in an opinion for the court.
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Michael Spurlin
ATPE
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