The Uvalde tragedy added pressure on educators to check and recheck how they do things, especially as the school year began. Some changes are obvious, some are barely visible.
Charter schools, mostly in high-poverty areas, are among the public schools that didn’t recover from the pandemic’s disruption and slipped in the state accountability ratings.
Letter grades for school districts and their campuses given by the state are the first since 2019, and most San Antonio-area school districts improved.