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House Bill 22 |
House Author: Huberty et al. |
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Effective: 6-15-17 |
Senate Sponsor: Taylor, Larry |
House Bill 22 amends the Education Code to revise the domains of achievement indicators on which school districts and campuses are evaluated by, among other changes, reducing the number of domains and organizing the new domains by student achievement, school progress, and closing the gaps. The bill establishes the commissioner of education's duty to establish and modify standards to continuously improve student performance to achieve the goals of eliminating achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status and to ensure that Texas is a national leader in preparing students for postsecondary success. The bill provides for a study by the commissioner regarding the feasibility of incorporating an indicator that accounts for extracurricular and cocurricular student activity. The bill revises the manner in which the commissioner assigns an overall performance rating for a district or campus, establishes that an overall or domain performance rating of D reflects performance that needs improvement, and provides for interventions and sanctions for a district or campus assigned that rating. The bill provides for a local accountability system under which school districts and open‑enrollment charter schools assign A-F campus performance ratings.