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. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 39.052,
1-4 Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-5 (b) The report card shall include the following information
1-6 where applicable:
1-7 (1) the academic excellence indicators adopted under
1-8 Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);
1-9 (2) average class size by grade level and subject
1-10 [student/teacher ratios]; and
1-11 (3) administrative and instructional costs per
1-12 student.
1-13 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
1-14 dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
1-15 portions of campus report cards annually to the parent, guardian,
1-16 conservator, or other person having lawful control of each student
1-17 at the campus. On written request, the school district shall
1-18 provide a copy of a campus report card to any other party.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-20 school year.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 576 passed the Senate on
April 29, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 576 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor