Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 618 amends the Education Code to remove a provision that allowed the commissioner of education to order the closing of a school that has been rated low-performing for two or more consecutive years and in its stead requires the commissioner to reconstitute such a campus, with a special campus intervention team being assembled to determine which educators may be retained at that campus. The bill also provides for the reassignment or termination of any educator not retained.

The bill establishes a deadline of August 1 for the Texas Education Agency to report on its evaluation of the performance of each campus and each open-enrollment charter school under the public school accountability system's academic excellence indicators. The bill makes a conforming amendment to the Labor Code to reflect an amended citation in the Education Code.