By: Armbrister S.B. No. 576
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the reporting of public school class size.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 25, Education Code, is
1-4 amended by adding Sections 25.113 and 25.114 to read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 25.113. REPORT TO AGENCY CONCERNING CLASS SIZE. Each
1-6 school district shall report to the agency the number of students
1-7 enrolled in each class, at the kindergarten level through grade 12,
1-8 by grade level, subject, and special program, as applicable.
1-9 Sec. 25.114. NOTICE TO PARENTS CONCERNING CLASS SIZE. Each
1-10 school district shall give to a parent written notice of the number
1-11 of students enrolled in each class or subject in which the parent's
1-12 child is enrolled as part of notice of the student's performance
1-13 required under Section 28.022(a)(2).
1-14 SECTION 2. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 39.052,
1-15 Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-16 (b) The report card shall include the following information
1-17 where applicable:
1-18 (1) the academic excellence indicators adopted under
1-19 Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);
1-20 (2) average class size by grade level, subject, and
1-21 special program [student/teacher ratios]; and
1-22 (3) administrative and instructional costs per
1-23 student.
1-24 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
2-1 dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
2-2 portions of campus report cards annually to the parent, guardian,
2-3 conservator, or other person having lawful control of each student
2-4 at the campus. On written request, the school district shall
2-5 provide a copy of a campus report card to any other party.
2-6 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
2-7 school year.
2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.