By: Haley S.B. No. 662
73R1882 CAS-D
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.