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      Amend CSSB 4 by inserting the following new SECTION,
appropriately numbered, and by renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of
the bill accordingly:
      SECTION ____.  (a)  Section 39.052(c), Education Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
dissemination of appropriate student performance portions of campus
report cards annually to the parent<, guardian, conservator,> or
other person having lawful control of each student at the campus.
The portions of campus report cards disseminated to the parent or
other person having lawful control of a student must include
information concerning the performance of the students at each
campus grade level on the academic excellence indicators specified
under Sections 39.051(b)(1)-(8) and, in the case of a report card
relating to a high school campus, the number and percentage of
students who, for the most recent three-year or four-year period,
depending on the grade levels offered, started high school at the
campus and dropped out of school before graduating. On written
request, the school district shall provide a copy of a campus
report card to any other party.
      (b)  Not later than January 1, 2000, the commissioner of
education shall adopt rules in accordance with Section 39.052(c),
Education Code, as amended by Subsection (a) of this section.
Those rules apply to public school campus report cards for the
2000-2001 school year and thereafter.