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Five Texas school districts have filed a new lawsuit over the state’s methods for measuring academic accountability, putting a hold on Thursday’s planned release of A-F ratings.

San Antonio ISD officials say the district’s standardized test results are not where they need to be, but they have a plan to improve them.

The state will save more than $15 million by using technology similar to ChatGPT to give initial scores, reducing the number of human graders needed. The decision caught some educators by surprise.

Test results have gone up since the pandemic in both subjects, but math scores are still below 2019 levels and about half of Texas students read below the level appropriate for most children in their grade.

Students in the San Antonio region and across the state saw a big drop in their math STAAR tests this spring, following a year of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was a sharp decline in high school students considered “at grade level” based on the primary math exam.

Texas officials mandated that students take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness in person this year at monitored test sites, although millions of students are still learning remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic.

State lawmakers had previously asked the Texas Education Agency to seek a federal waiver to cancel the standardized tests.

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