73R1882 CAS-D
          By Johnson                                            H.B. No. 2334
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to academic excellence indicators.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 21.7531(a) and (b), Education Code, are
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The State Board of Education, on the advice of the Texas
    1-7  committee on student learning <academic excellence indicators
    1-8  advisory committee, the educational excellence committee,> and the
    1-9  Legislative Education Board, shall adopt a set of indicators of the
   1-10  quality of learning on a campus and other performance standards.
   1-11  The board biennially shall review the indicators for the
   1-12  consideration of appropriate revisions.
   1-13        (b)  Performance on the indicators required by this section
   1-14  shall be compared to projections of expected performance for
   1-15  purposes of evaluation, accreditation, and determination of
   1-16  exemplary status.  The indicators must be based on information that
   1-17  is disaggregated with respect to race, gender, age, and
   1-18  socioeconomic status and must include:
   1-19              (1)  the results<, through longitudinal studies,> of
   1-20  <criterion-referenced> assessment instruments required under
   1-21  Section 21.551 of this code;
   1-22              (2)  the results of tests with national norms,
   1-23  including the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the American College
   1-24  Test;
    2-1              (3)  dropout <high school graduation> rates;
    2-2              (4)  student attendance;
    2-3              (5)  student completion of <enrollment in> advanced
    2-4  academic courses; <and>
    2-5              (6)  the degree of change from one school year to the
    2-6  next in each indicator provided by this section or board rule; and
    2-7              (7)  any other indicator the board adopts <the items
    2-8  under Subdivisions (1) through (5) of this subsection, considering
    2-9  the impact of student mobility>.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  The indicators required by or adopted under
   2-11  Section 21.7531, Education Code, as amended by this Act, shall be
   2-12  used in evaluating student performance beginning with the 1993-1994
   2-13  school year.
   2-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.