By:  Haley                                             S.B. No. 705
       73R6247 ESH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to curriculum mastery plans for public school students.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 21.1011 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 21.1011.  CURRICULUM MASTERY PLAN.  (a)  Each school
    1-7  district shall establish a curriculum mastery plan that allows each
    1-8  student in the district to advance through the curriculum required
    1-9  under Section 21.101 of this code in the minimum amount of time
   1-10  required for the student to master the elements of the curriculum.
   1-11        (b)  A plan established under this section must include
   1-12  provisions for advanced or remedial instruction for students as
   1-13  needed to allow each student to maintain constant progress in
   1-14  mastery of the curriculum elements.  The plan may not include a
   1-15  student's age as a factor in determining whether to allow a student
   1-16  to advance to additional elements of the curriculum.
   1-17        (c)  The plan required by this section shall be developed
   1-18  through the district-level decision process established under
   1-19  Section 21.930 of this code and implemented at each campus in the
   1-20  district as determined through the site-based decision-making
   1-21  process established under Section 21.931 of this code.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 21.753(b), Education Code, is amended to
   1-23  read as follows:
   1-24        (b)  The criteria in the accreditation rules must include
    2-1  consideration of:
    2-2              (1)  goals and objectives of the district;
    2-3              (2)  compliance with statutory requirements and
    2-4  requirements imposed by rule of the State Board of Education under
    2-5  statutory authority;
    2-6              (3)  adequate performance under the indicators adopted
    2-7  under Section 21.7531 of this code;
    2-8              (4)  the relation between the academic excellence
    2-9  indicators adopted by the board under Section 21.7531 of this code
   2-10  and the campus performance objectives established under Section
   2-11  21.7532 of this code, including the manner in which the campus
   2-12  performance objectives were established and the progress of the
   2-13  campus in meeting the objectives;
   2-14              (5)  the quality of learning on each of the district's
   2-15  campuses based on indicators including scores on achievement tests;
   2-16              (6)  the quality of the district's appraisal of teacher
   2-17  performance and of administrator performance;
   2-18              (7)  the effectiveness of district principals as
   2-19  instructional leaders;
   2-20              (8)  the effectiveness of the district's campuses on
   2-21  the basis of the most current criteria identified by research on
   2-22  effective schools;
   2-23              (9)  the fulfillment of curriculum requirements,
   2-24  including the curriculum mastery plan required under Section
   2-25  21.1011 of this code;
   2-26              (10)  the effectiveness of the district's programs in
   2-27  special education based on the Central Education Agency's most
    3-1  recent compliance review of the district and programs for special
    3-2  populations;
    3-3              (11)  the effectiveness of teacher in-service training;
    3-4              (12)  the effective use of technology to enhance
    3-5  student achievement;
    3-6              (13)  the effectiveness of the district's remedial and
    3-7  support programs under Section 21.557 of this code for students at
    3-8  risk of dropping out of school;
    3-9              (14)  the effectiveness of the district's dropout
   3-10  prevention and recovery programs;
   3-11              (15)  efficient allocation of available resources;
   3-12              (16)  the presence and quality of comprehensive and
   3-13  developmental guidance and counseling programs on campuses; and
   3-14              (17)  the quality and effectiveness of the district's
   3-15  vocational education program.
   3-16        SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
   3-17  school year.
   3-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   3-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   3-24  passage, and it is so enacted.