Section 1111(h)(2) of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that each local education agency (LEA) that receives Title I, Part A funding to disseminate specific LEA- and campus-level data to 1) all LEA campuses, 2) parents of all enrolled students, and 3) to make the information widely available through public means such as posting on the internet, distribution to the media, or distribution through public agencies.
The Division of Performance Reporting is responsible for developing the Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) reports, which pull together a wide range of information on the performance of students in each school and district in Texas every year. These reports also provide extensive information on staff, finances, programs, and demographics for each school and district.
Comparable Improvement (CI) is a measure that calculates how student performance on the TAKS mathematics and reading tests has changed (or grown)from one year to the next, and compares the change to that of the 40 schools that are demographically most similar to the target school.