By: Ellis, West S.B. No. 1724
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to public school campus improvement plans and school
1-2 district performance reports.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 11.253, Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 11.253. Campus Planning and Site-Based Decision-Making.
1-7 (a) Each school district shall maintain current policies and
1-8 procedures to ensure that effective planning and site-based
1-9 decision-making occur at each campus to direct and support the
1-10 improvement of student performance for all students.
1-11 (b) Each district's policy and procedures shall establish
1-12 campus-level planning and decision-making committees as provided
1-13 for through the procedures provided by Sections 11.251(b)-(e).
1-14 (c) Each school year, the principal of each school campus,
1-15 with the assistance of the campus-level committee, shall develop,
1-16 review, and revise the campus improvement plan for the purpose of
1-17 improving student performance for all student populations with
1-18 respect to the academic excellence indicators adopted under Section
1-19 39.051 and any other appropriate performance measures for special
1-20 needs populations.
1-21 (d) Each campus improvement plan must:
1-22 (1) assess the academic achievement for each student
1-23 in the school using the academic excellence indicator system as
1-24 described by Section 39.051;
2-1 (2) set the campus performance objectives based on the
2-2 academic excellence indicator system, including objectives for
2-3 special needs populations;
2-4 (3) identify how the campus goals will be met for each
2-5 student;
2-6 (4) determine the resources needed to implement the
2-7 plan;
2-8 (5) identify staff needed to implement the plan;
2-9 (6) set timelines for reaching the goals; and
2-10 (7) measure progress toward the performance objectives
2-11 periodically to ensure that the plan is resulting in academic
2-12 improvement.
2-13 (e) A campus improvement plan may include goals and methods
2-14 for violence prevention and intervention on campus. If the plan is
2-15 to include those goals and methods, the campus-level planning and
2-16 decision-making committee shall appoint a subcommittee composed of
2-17 parents and teachers to study and make recommendations to the
2-18 committee concerning:
2-19 (1) the student code of conduct adopted under Section
2-20 37.001 and other campus safety issues;
2-21 (2) programs that are needed to teach students to
2-22 effectively deal with conflict and to assist students in acquiring
2-23 the emotional skills necessary to deal with anger and with
2-24 situations that are likely to lead to violence; and
2-25 (3) the type and amount of training teachers need to
2-26 assist the teachers in preventing and intervening in violent
3-1 situations.
3-2 (f) In accordance with the administrative procedures
3-3 established under Section 11.251(b), the campus-level committee
3-4 shall be involved in decisions in the areas of planning, budgeting,
3-5 curriculum, staffing patterns, staff development, and school
3-6 organization. The campus-level committee must approve the portions
3-7 of the campus plan addressing campus staff development needs.
3-8 (g) [(f)] This section does not create a new cause of action
3-9 or require collective bargaining.
3-10 (h) [(g)] Each campus-level committee shall hold at least
3-11 one public meeting per year. The required meeting shall be held
3-12 after receipt of the annual campus rating from the agency to
3-13 discuss the performance of the campus and the campus performance
3-14 objectives. District policy and campus procedures must be
3-15 established to ensure that systematic communications measures are
3-16 in place to periodically obtain broad-based community, parent, and
3-17 staff input, and to provide information to those persons regarding
3-18 the recommendations of the campus-level committees.
3-19 (i) [(h)] A principal shall regularly consult the
3-20 campus-level committee in the planning, operation, supervision, and
3-21 evaluation of the campus educational program.
3-22 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 39.053, Education Code,
3-23 is amended to read as follows:
3-24 (a) Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report
3-25 describing the educational performance of the district and of each
3-26 campus in the district that includes uniform student performance
4-1 and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
4-2 the commissioner. The annual report must also include campus
4-3 performance objectives established under Section 11.253 and the
4-4 progress of each campus toward those objectives, which shall be
4-5 available to the public, and[. The annual report must also
4-6 include] the performance rating for the district as provided under
4-7 Section 39.072(a) and the performance rating of each campus in the
4-8 district as provided under Section 39.072(c). In addition, the
4-9 annual report must include a statement of the number, rate, and
4-10 type of violent or criminal incidents that occurred on each
4-11 district campus, to the extent permitted under the Family
4-12 Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Section
4-13 1232g), information concerning school violence prevention and
4-14 violence intervention policies and procedures that the district is
4-15 using to protect students, and the findings that result from
4-16 evaluations conducted under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
4-17 Communities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. Section 7101 et seq.) and its
4-18 subsequent amendments. Supplemental information to be included in
4-19 the reports shall be determined by the board of trustees.
4-20 Performance information in the annual reports on the indicators
4-21 established under Section 39.051 and descriptive information
4-22 required by this section shall be provided by the agency.
4-23 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
4-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
4-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.