By Armbrister S.B. No. 1189
75R4509 ESH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the reporting of public school class size.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 25.112, Education Code, is amended by
1-5 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-6 (e) Each school district shall report to the agency the
1-7 actual number of students enrolled in each class by grade level,
1-8 subject, and special program.
1-9 SECTION 2. Section 39.052(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-10 read as follows:
1-11 (b) The report card shall include the following information
1-12 where applicable:
1-13 (1) the academic excellence indicators adopted under
1-14 Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);
1-15 (2) actual class sizes by grade level, subject, and
1-16 special program [student/teacher ratios]; and
1-17 (3) administrative and instructional costs per
1-18 student.
1-19 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-20 school year.
1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.