By Barrientos S.B. No. 193
74R2106 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to reporting public school dropout rates.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 11.205(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (b) The agency shall develop and implement a system for
1-7 collecting <school districts to collect> data on student dropouts.
1-8 The system must attempt to collect data regarding each student
1-9 dropout, including the age, sex, ethnic origin, socioeconomic
1-10 status, and highest completed grade level of the student dropout.
1-11 For each campus, district, county, and region, the agency shall
1-12 determine for each grade level from seven through 12 the number of
1-13 student dropouts each school year and the ethnic origin of those
1-14 students. Each school district shall cooperate with the agency in
1-15 determining whether a student is a dropout. Not later than
1-16 September 30 of each school year, the agency shall provide each
1-17 school district with a list of students enrolled in the district
1-18 during the preceding school year but not reported as attending a
1-19 public school in this state during the current school year. Not
1-20 later than November 30 of each school year, each district shall
1-21 determine and report to the agency the status of each student on
1-22 the district's list, including whether the student:
1-23 (1) is enrolled in another school district or in a
1-24 private school in this state;
2-1 (2) has moved out of state;
2-2 (3) is a dropout who is employed; or
2-3 (4) is a dropout who is unemployed.
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996
2-5 school year.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.