By Combs                                              H.B. No. 1563
       74R3477 ESH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to public school campus report cards.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 35.043, Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 35.043.  Campus Report Card.  (a)  Each school year, the
    1-7  Central Education Agency shall prepare and distribute to each
    1-8  school district a report card for each campus.  The campus report
    1-9  cards must be easy to understand and be based on the most current
   1-10  data available <disaggregated by student groups>.  Campus
   1-11  performance must be compared only to:
   1-12              (1)  previous campus and district performance;
   1-13              (2)  <,> current district performance;
   1-14              (3)  <,> state established standards;<,> and
   1-15              (4)  the <comparable campus group> performance of a
   1-16  group of comparable campuses, each of which:
   1-17                    (A)  is located in a district that has a ratio of
   1-18  taxable property per student similar to that of the district in
   1-19  which the campus is located;
   1-20                    (B)  has a similar number of students, with
   1-21  substantially similar demographics; and
   1-22                    (C)  is located in a district that the
   1-23  commissioner of education has classified the same as the district
   1-24  in which the campus is located, as either urban, suburban, or
    2-1  rural.
    2-2        (b)  The campus report card shall include the following
    2-3  information where applicable:
    2-4              (1)  student performance on state adopted assessment
    2-5  instruments;
    2-6              (2)  attendance;
    2-7              (3)  dropout rate;
    2-8              (4)  student performance on college admissions tests;
    2-9              (5)  student/teacher ratios; and
   2-10              (6)  administrative and instructional costs per
   2-11  student.
   2-12        (c)  The campus report card may not:
   2-13              (1)  include a comparison by race or ethnicity of the
   2-14  performance, attendance, or dropout rates of students at the
   2-15  campus; or
   2-16              (2)  exceed two pages in length.
   2-17        (d)  Each school district shall send the appropriate <The
   2-18  commissioner of education shall adopt rules for requiring
   2-19  dissemination of> campus report card <cards> annually to the parent
   2-20  of or person standing in parental relation to each student at the
   2-21  campus with the student's grade notice under Section 21.722.  On
   2-22  written request, the school district shall provide a copy of a
   2-23  campus report card to any other party.
   2-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-3  passage, and it is so enacted.