Texas College, Career, and Military Readiness Standards and Student Achievement of a Self-Sufficiency Standard Wage

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Abstract

The Texas Education Code recognizes 10 indicators of college, career, and military readiness (CCMR) that are used in the state’s A–F Accountability System. In 2023, the Texas legislature appropriated funds for the Texas Education Agency to investigate the association between the CCMR indicators and the timing of students’ achievement of a self-sufficiency standard wage (SSSW). Using linked administrative data that follow all students who graduated from Texas public high schools in 2017–18, findings show that students who earned a Level 1 or Level 2 certificate during high school had the highest probability of achieving an SSSW over time, while economic benefits for other CCMR indicators were not observed until the fifth year after high school graduation.

Authors

• Molly E. Cain, University of Texas at Austin

• Kristina L. Zeiser, American Institutes for Research