By Hernandez                                          H.B. No. 2368
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to performance reports of school districts.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection 21.258(b), Education Code, is amended
    1-5  to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The report shall <may> include the following information
    1-7  by campus:
    1-8              (1)  evaluations of the quality of education based on
    1-9  the information contained in the report;
   1-10              (2)  scores on tests with national norms;
   1-11              (3)  reports of performance trends improvement or lack
   1-12  of improvement;
   1-13              (4)  statements of costs for instruction, instructional
   1-14  administration, and central administration;
   1-15              (5)  attendance data and dropout rates;
   1-16              (6)  reports on discipline;
   1-17              (7)  data on employees, trends in employment, and
   1-18  turnover;
   1-19              (8)  teacher ratios by grade groupings and by program;
   1-20  and
   1-21              (9)  statement of efforts to reduce the amount of
   1-22  paperwork required of teachers and administrators.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.