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.