By Shapiro S.B. No. 877
76R7319 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to accreditation and rating standards for public school
1-3 districts and schools.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 39.024, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 amending the heading and Subsection (a) to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 39.024. SATISFACTORY AND ACADEMICALLY RECOGNIZED
1-8 PERFORMANCE. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection,
1-9 the State Board of Education shall determine the level of
1-10 performance considered to be satisfactory on the assessment
1-11 instruments. The admission, review, and dismissal committee of a
1-12 student being assessed under Section 39.023(b) shall determine the
1-13 level of performance considered to be satisfactory on the
1-14 assessment instruments administered to that student in accordance
1-15 with criteria established by agency rule. The board shall also
1-16 determine the level of performance considered to be academically
1-17 recognized on the assessment instruments.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 39.051(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-19 read as follows:
1-20 (c) Performance on the indicator under Subsection (b)(1)
1-21 shall be compared to state standards, required improvement, and
1-22 comparable improvement. The state standard shall be established by
1-23 the commissioner. Required improvement is defined as the progress
1-24 necessary for the campus or district to meet state standards and
2-1 for its students to meet exit requirements as defined by the
2-2 commissioner. Comparable improvement is derived by measuring
2-3 campuses and districts against a profile developed from a total
2-4 state student performance database which exhibits substantial
2-5 equivalence to the characteristics of students served by the campus
2-6 or district, including past academic performance, socioeconomic
2-7 status, ethnicity, and limited English proficiency. The state
2-8 standard must provide that to be eligible for a district
2-9 performance rating of academically acceptable or a campus
2-10 performance rating of acceptable, at least 70 percent of the
2-11 students in each group for which results are disaggregated under
2-12 Subsection (b) must perform satisfactorily on the assessment
2-13 instruments administered under Sections 39.023(a) and (c).
2-14 SECTION 3. Section 39.053(a), Education Code, is amended to
2-15 read as follows:
2-16 (a) Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report
2-17 describing the educational performance of the district and of each
2-18 campus in the district that includes uniform student performance
2-19 and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
2-20 the commissioner. The annual report must also include campus
2-21 performance objectives established under Section 11.253 and the
2-22 progress of each campus toward those objectives, which shall be
2-23 available to the public. The annual report must also include the
2-24 performance rating for the district as provided under Section
2-25 39.072(a) and the performance rating of each campus in the district
2-26 as provided under Section 39.072(d) [39.072(c)]. Supplemental
2-27 information to be included in the reports shall be determined by
3-1 the board of trustees. Performance information in the annual
3-2 reports on the indicators established under Section 39.051 and
3-3 descriptive information required by this section shall be provided
3-4 by the agency.
3-5 SECTION 4. Section 39.072, Education Code, is amended by
3-6 amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
3-7 follows:
3-8 (c) The rules adopted under Subsection (a) must provide
3-9 that to be eligible for a performance rating of recognized or
3-10 exemplary, at least a minimum percentage of the students in a
3-11 district or at a campus must demonstrate academically recognized
3-12 performance on the assessment instruments administered under
3-13 Sections 39.023(a) and (c).
3-14 (d) The agency shall evaluate against state standards and
3-15 shall report the performance of each campus in a district and each
3-16 open-enrollment charter school on the basis of the campus's
3-17 performance on the indicators adopted under Sections 39.051(b)(1)
3-18 through (6).
3-19 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
3-20 SECTION 6. Section 39.051(c), Education Code, as amended by
3-21 this Act, applies beginning with the 2005-2006 school year. Before
3-22 the 2005-2006 school year, each year the commissioner of education
3-23 shall incrementally raise the level of overall student performance
3-24 on the assessment instruments administered under Sections 39.023(a)
3-25 and (c), Education Code, that is necessary for a district
3-26 performance rating of academically acceptable or a campus
3-27 performance rating of acceptable from the level established for the
4-1 1998-1999 school year.
4-2 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the
4-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.