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.