Amend CSSB 139 as follows:
      (1)  In the heading of SECTION 1 strike "Subsection (l)" and
insert "Subsections (l) and (m)" (committee printing page 1, line
14).
      (2)  In SECTION 1 (committee printing page 1, line 19) add
Subsection (m) to Section 37.008, Education Code, as follows:
      "(m)  The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to
administer the provisions of Chapter 39 for alternative education
programs.  Academically, the mission of alternative education
programs shall be to enable students to perform at grade level.
Each alternative education program shall be treated as a campus
subject to applicable provisions of Subchapters C, D, F, and G,
Chapter 39, as determined by the commissioner.  Annually, the
commissioner shall define exemplary, recognized, and unacceptable
performance for alternative education programs, based principally
on comparable and required improvement standards that measure
academic progress of students toward grade level while attending an
alternative education program."