73R4721 CAE-D
          By Cuellar of Webb                                      H.B. No. 45
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to public school foreign language programs.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 11.27(b), Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  Innovative programs that may be approved under this
    1-7  section include, but are not limited to, programs relating to:
    1-8              (1)  school year restructuring;
    1-9              (2)  alternative learning environments;
   1-10              (3)  parental literacy;
   1-11              (4)  decentralization of organizational decisions;
   1-12              (5)  instructional technology;
   1-13              (6)  student and parental choice among public schools;
   1-14              (7)  child care;
   1-15              (8)  early childhood education;
   1-16              (9)  an extended school day;
   1-17              (10)  teacher and administrator development;
   1-18              (11)  continuous progress education;
   1-19              (12)  student-teacher ratios below 22:1 in elementary
   1-20  grades;
   1-21              (13)  use of elementary school guidance counselors,
   1-22  social workers, and other personnel in successful dropout
   1-23  prevention programs;
   1-24              (14)  career development for students;
    2-1              (15)  bilingual training;
    2-2              (16)  the generation of more effective parental
    2-3  involvement with the schools;
    2-4              (17)  school-age latch-key children;
    2-5              (18)  volunteer efforts with the private sector;
    2-6              (19)  coordination of school activities with community
    2-7  health and human services programs and other community resources;
    2-8              (20)  magnet schools;
    2-9              (21)  interdisciplinary curriculum;
   2-10              (22)  peer tutoring;
   2-11              (23)  counseling of families of at-risk students; <and>
   2-12              (24)  comprehensive coordination with health and human
   2-13  service delivery systems; and
   2-14              (25)  foreign language education with priority given to
   2-15  elementary and middle school programs.
   2-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.