By Shapiro S.B. No. 876 76R7317 BDH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to restaffing certain low-performing public schools. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 39, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 39.132 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 39.132. SANCTIONS FOR CERTAIN SCHOOLS. (a) A school 1-7 that is considered a low-performing campus for two consecutive 1-8 years under Section 39.131(b) must be placed on probationary 1-9 status by the commissioner. During the year in which the campus is 1-10 on probationary status, the school shall seek and receive 1-11 assistance, including assistance related to staffing and resource 1-12 allocation, from the appropriate regional education service center. 1-13 (b) If, after probationary status, a school campus's 1-14 performance fails to improve, as determined by the commissioner, 1-15 the commissioner may: 1-16 (1) request that the State Board for Educator 1-17 Certification revoke the certification of the principal at the 1-18 campus; and 1-19 (2) order that some or all of the classroom teachers 1-20 on the school campus be reassigned to other campuses or other 1-21 positions in the school district. 1-22 (c) Employment at a campus for which the commissioner orders 1-23 reassignment of teachers under Subsection (b) is grounds for 1-24 nonrenewal of a contract under Subchapter E, Chapter 21. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 2-2 school year. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.