76R16845 BDH-D
By Armbrister S.B. No. 576
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 576:
By Oliveira C.S.S.B. No. 576
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the reporting of public school class size.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 39.052,
1-5 Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The report card shall include the following information
1-7 where applicable:
1-8 (1) the academic excellence indicators adopted under
1-9 Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);
1-10 (2) average class size by grade level and subject
1-11 [student/teacher ratios]; and
1-12 (3) administrative and instructional costs per
1-13 student.
1-14 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
1-15 dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
1-16 portions of campus report cards annually to the parent, guardian,
1-17 conservator, or other person having lawful control of each student
1-18 at the campus. On written request, the school district shall
1-19 provide a copy of a campus report card to any other party.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-21 school year.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.