By Dunnam                                             H.B. No. 1104
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to evaluation of parental involvement in local decision
 1-3     making by public school districts.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 11.255 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 11.255.  STATE EVALUATION OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.
 1-8     (a)  At least every two years, the agency shall evaluate each
 1-9     school district to determine if the district is involving parents
1-10     in district-level and campus-level planning and decision making as
1-11     required by this subchapter.
1-12           (b)  Based on the evaluation and criteria established by the
1-13     commissioner, the commissioner shall assign each district a rating
1-14     of excellent, acceptable, or unacceptable.  The criteria
1-15     established by the commissioner must reflect the objective stated
1-16     in Section 4.001 that parents be full partners in the education of
1-17     their children.
1-18           (c)  The agency shall make district ratings and evaluations
1-19     under this section available to the public.  Beginning not later
1-20     than the 60th day after the date on which a district receives
1-21     notice of its rating, the district shall publish the district's
1-22     rating and a summary of the evaluation of the district in a
1-23     newspaper of general circulation in the district at least once each
1-24     week for two consecutive weeks.
 2-1           (d)  A district that receives an unacceptable rating under
 2-2     this section shall submit a plan for improving parental involvement
 2-3     to the agency not later than the 60th day after the date on which
 2-4     the district receives notice of its rating.  The agency shall
 2-5     monitor a district's compliance with the plan and the requirements
 2-6     of this subchapter relating to parental involvement.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13     passage, and it is so enacted.