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House Bill 3468 |
House Author: Isett |
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Effective: 9-1-05 |
Senate Sponsor: Van de Putte |
House Bill 3468 amends the Education Code to allow the commissioner of education to establish an intensive reading and language intervention pilot program for campuses that have failed to improve student performance in reading. The campus would be required to test each student selected to participate in the pilot program before and after the student's participation, and student progress as measured by those tests would have to be reported to the legislature not later than December 31, 2006. The bill allows the commissioner to fund the program using not more than $6 million of the funding appropriated for the accelerated instruction provided students who fail any portion of the statewide standardized tests under the public school accountability system.