The 15th Texas Court of Appeals (COA) has thrown out injunctions that had blocked the Texas Education Agency from releasing school accountability ratings for the 2023-24 school year. The TEA is expected to release the ratings Aug. 15.

“It is time for local courts to stop obstructing those policies,” Chief Justice Scott Brister wrote in the July 3 order in Case No. 15-24-00101-CV that was appealed from 201st District Court in Travis County.

Several school districts sued TEA Commissioner Mike Morath last year, alleging the A-F grades were based on flawed standardized testing by the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests. One of the issues was that computers were used to score the tests.

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