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.