By Armbrister S.B. No. 576
76R6060 BDH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to class size in public schools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 25.112, Education Code, is amended by
1-5 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-6 (e) A school district annually shall report to the
1-7 commissioner the number of students enrolled in each class. The
1-8 report shall be organized by grade level, curriculum subject, and
1-9 special program.
1-10 SECTION 2. Sections 39.052(b) and (c), Education Code, are
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (b) The report card shall include the following information
1-13 where applicable:
1-14 (1) the academic excellence indicators adopted under
1-15 Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8);
1-16 (2) class sizes, organized by grade level, curriculum
1-17 subject, and special program [student/teacher ratios]; and
1-18 (3) administrative and instructional costs per
1-19 student.
1-20 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
1-21 dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
1-22 portions of campus report cards annually to the parent, guardian,
1-23 conservator, or other person having lawful control of each student
1-24 at the campus. On written request, the school district shall
2-1 provide a copy of a campus report card to any other party.
2-2 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2000-2001
2-3 school year.
2-4 SECTION 4. 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,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.