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Senate Bill 1410 |
Senate Author: Duncan |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
House Sponsor: Patrick, Diane |
Senate Bill 1410 amends the Education Code to require the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to establish procedures for each school district and open-enrollment charter school to accurately identify students who are enrolled in a tech-prep program and to report the accurate number of tech-prep program students to the TEA and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The bill requires the coordinating board's evaluation of each tech-prep consortium to include an assessment of the consortium's performance during the past year in comparison to the goals and objectives stated in the five-year plan contained in the consortium's grant application to the coordinating board; an identification of any concerns the coordinating board has regarding the consortium's performance; and recommendations for improvement by the consortium in the next year. The bill removes the requirements that the coordinating board coordinate with tech-prep consortia in developing and implementing the statewide evaluation system, that the evaluation of each consortium be based on the success of the consortium's tech-prep program and other criteria, and that the evaluation system include standards that a tech-prep consortium is expected to meet in administering the consortium's duties. The bill requires the coordinating board to evaluate each consortium annually rather than biennially and requires the annual evaluation to be conducted on-site at least once every four years or more frequently as provided by coordinating board rule. The bill changes from October 1 of each even-numbered year to November 1 of each year the deadline for the coordinating board's report to each tech-prep consortium on the results of the evaluation and revises the content to be included in the report.