SRC-JJJ C.S.S.B. 225 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research CenterC.S.S.B. 225 76R8295 KKA-DBy: Bivins Education 3/4/1999 Committee Report (Substituted) DIGEST Currently, Texas law requires the board of trustees of a public school district to publish an annual report describing the educational performance of the district and of each campus that also includes uniform student performance and certain descriptive information. The report does not include information regarding the performance of recent graduates from the school district who are attending institutions of higher education. This bill would include, in the annual report to each school district, information relating to the academic performance of high school graduates in institutions of higher education, so that school districts are better able to evaluate how successful their individual high schools are at preparing students for college. PURPOSE As proposed, C.S.S.B. 225 establishes certain conditions for measuring and reporting the academic performance of public high school graduates in institutions of higher education. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 39.053(a), Education Code, to require the annual report published by each board of trustees describing the educational performance of school districts and campuses to include information received under Section 51.946 for each high school campus, presented in a form determined by the commissioner of education. SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 3. Emergency clause. SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE CHANGES SECTION 2. Deletes existing SECTION 2, which amends Chapter 51Z, Education Code, regarding information relating to certain graduates. SECTION 3. Deletes existing SECTION 3, which repeals Section 51.403(e), Education Code, requiring postsecondary institutions to report student performance. Deletes existing SECTION 4 regarding the effective date and date by which rules must be adopted. Establishes the effective date as September 1, 1999.