School Action Fund

The Texas Education Agency is committed to relentlessly increasing the number of students in great schools. To this end, the School Action Fund (SAF) aims to increase the number of students in great schools by providing customized planning and implementation support to districts committed to bold action to transform low-performing schools and expand access to world-class learning environments for students. The School Action Fund currently supports the following bold school actions:

Restart a struggling school
Redesign a whole school
Create a new school
Reassign students to a higher performing school

Currently, SAF supports school districts in all of the state's twenty educational service regions in planning, implementation, and continuation of transformative, bold school actions. For more information on bold, transformative School Actions, please visit the Center for School Actions website.

Regardless of the school action model, school actions have the following core components:

Effective School Framework (ESF) alignment
High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) with embedded assessments and diagnostic tools
Implementation of research based instructional strategies (RBIS)
High Impact Tutoring
Extended Day or Year