By Moreno of Harris H.B. No. 3192
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the provision of private community-based dropout
1-3 recovery education programs to provide alternative education
1-4 programs for students at risk of dropping out of school.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
1-7 amended by adding Section 29.081(e) to read as follows:
1-8 (e) A school district may use a private or public
1-9 community-based dropout recovery education program to provide
1-10 alternative education programs for students at risk of dropping out
1-11 of school. A school district, when utilizing a community-based
1-12 dropout recovery education program, shall develop goals,
1-13 objectives, and guidelines that best address the needs of students
1-14 at risk of dropping out of school. These guidelines shall include,
1-15 but need not be limited to, grading students' work, offering course
1-16 credit, curriculum development and implementation, modifying
1-17 instructional time requirements, performance standards,
1-18 qualifications of staff and faculty, class size, student-faculty
1-19 ratios and methods of evaluating subject mastery. The guidelines
1-20 may, but do not necessarily need to, comply with all the
1-21 requirements of this Code. [The program must grade students' work,
2-1 offer course credit, modify instructional time requirements, and
2-2 establish methods of evaluation subject mastery.]
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.