By Hochberg                                           H.B. No. 3413

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain academic excellence indicators.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 39.051, Public Education Code, is amended

 1-5     to read as follows:

 1-6           (b)  Performance on the indicators adopted under this section

 1-7     shall be compared to state-established standards.  The degree of

 1-8     change from one school year to the next in performance on each

 1-9     indicator adopted under this section shall also be considered.  The

1-10     indicators must be based on information that is disaggregated with

1-11     respect to race, ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status and must

1-12     include:

1-13                 (1)  the results of assessment instruments required

1-14     under Subchapter B aggregated by grade level and subject area,

1-15     including passing rates and, for students who failed an assessment

1-16     instrument in the previous school year, progress toward passing

1-17     since the previous year;

1-18                 (2)  dropout rates;

1-19                 (3)  student attendance rates;

1-20                 (4)  the percentage of graduating students who attain

1-21     scores on the secondary exit-level assessment instruments required

1-22     under Subchapter B that are equivalent to a passing score on the

 2-1     test instrument required under Section 51.306;

 2-2                 (5)  the percentage of graduating students who meet the

 2-3     course requirements established for the recommended high school

 2-4     program by State Board of Education rule;

 2-5                 (6)  the results of the Scholastic Assessment Test

 2-6     (SAT) and the American College Test;

 2-7                 (7)  the percentage of students taking end-of-course

 2-8     assessment instruments adopted under Section 39.023(c);

 2-9                 (8)  the percentage of students exempted, by exemption

2-10     category, from the assessment program generally applicable under

2-11     this subchapter; and

2-12                 (9)  any other indicator the State Board of Education

2-13     adopts.

2-14           SECTION 2.  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.