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Contents
Why this study? 3
Research questions 6
Findings 7
Implications 14
References 15
Appendix A. Data and methods 17
Appendix B. Supporting analyses 30
Appendix C. Supplemental analyses 36
Figure 1. More than 40 percent of 2017-18 graduates did not demonstrate college, career, or military readiness 8
Figure 2. A lower percentage of 2017-18 graduates from small districts met a college readiness accountability standard than large districts, and no substantive differences were identified... 9
Figure 3. Nearly all 2017-18 graduates who did not demonstrate college, career, or military readiness met at least one alternative career readiness option 10
Figure 4. Among graduates who did not demonstrate college, career, or military readiness, a higher percentage from small districts and rural districts were career and technical education... 12
Figure 5. Compared with graduates who met a career readiness accountability standard, career and technical education completers and work-based learners had higher rates of college... 14
Boxes
Box 1. Key terms 4
Box 2. Data sources, sample, and methods 6
Table A1. College, career, and military readiness standards as defined for the college, career, and military readiness outcomes bonus and the college, career, and military readiness standards... 18
Table A2. Data sources and key variables used in this study 20
Table A3. Count and percentage of Texas public school districts and total students, by district size and community type, 2018 21
Table A4. Demographic characteristics of 2017-18 Texas public high school graduates 24
Table B1. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates in each Texas Education Agency college, career, and military readiness accountability standard category 30
Table B2. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates in each Texas Education Agency college, career, and military readiness accountability standard category, by district size and community type 31
Table B3. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates who did not meet a college, career, and military readiness accountability standard, by alternative career readiness option attainment 32
Table B4. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates who did not meet a college, career, and military readiness accountability standard, by alternative career readiness option attainment and... 33
Table B5. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates who did not meet a college, career, and military readiness accountability standard, by alternative career and technical education career... 34
Table B6. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates in each Texas college, career, and military readiness accountability standard category, by postsecondary outcome 34
Table B7. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates who did not meet a college, career, and military readiness accountability standard, by alternative career readiness option met and... 35
Table C1. Percentage of 2017-18 graduates in each Texas college, career, and military readiness accountability standard category, by student demographics 36
Table C2. Percentage of 2017-18 graduates who did not meet a college, career, or military readiness accountability standard, by alternative career readiness option and student demographics 37
Table C3. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates who met college and career readiness accountability standards, and graduates who did not meet college, career, or military readiness... 38
Table C4. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates who achieved each alternative career readiness option among the graduates who did not meet college, career, and military readiness... 40
Table C5. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates who achieved each postsecondary outcome among the graduates who did not meet a college, career, and military readiness accountability... 41
Table C6. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates who did not meet a college, career, and military readiness accountability standard, by work-based learning course type and district size and... 42
Table C7. Count and percentage of 2017-18 graduates who did not meet a college, career, and military readiness accountability standard, by alternative career readiness option met and... 44
Table C8. Percentage of 2017-18 graduates by demographic characteristics within each Texas college, career, and military readiness accountability standard 45
Appendix Boxes
Box A1. Texas Education Agency community type definitions 22