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; and
2-13 (8) include goals and methods for violence prevention
2-14 and intervention on campus.
2-15 (e) In accordance with the administrative procedures
2-16 established under Section 11.251(b), the campus-level committee
2-17 shall be involved in decisions in the areas of planning, budgeting,
2-18 curriculum, staffing patterns, staff development, and school
2-19 organization. The campus-level committee must approve the portions
2-20 of the campus plan addressing campus staff development needs.
2-21 (f) This section does not create a new cause of action or
2-22 require collective bargaining.
2-23 (g) Each campus-level committee shall hold at least one
2-24 public meeting per year. The required meeting shall be held after
2-25 receipt of the annual campus rating from the agency to discuss the
2-26 performance of the campus and the campus performance objectives.
3-1 District policy and campus procedures must be established to ensure
3-2 that systematic communications measures are in place to
3-3 periodically obtain broad-based community, parent, and staff input,
3-4 and to provide information to those persons regarding the
3-5 recommendations of the campus-level committees.
3-6 (h) A principal shall regularly consult the campus-level
3-7 committee in the planning, operation, supervision, and evaluation
3-8 of the campus educational program.
3-9 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 39.053, Education Code,
3-10 is amended to read as follows:
3-11 (a) Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report
3-12 describing the educational performance of the district and of each
3-13 campus in the district that includes uniform student performance
3-14 and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
3-15 the commissioner. The annual report must also include campus
3-16 performance objectives established under Section 11.253 and the
3-17 progress of each campus toward those objectives, which shall be
3-18 available to the public, and[. The annual report must also
3-19 include] the performance rating for the district as provided under
3-20 Section 39.072(a) and the performance rating of each campus in the
3-21 district as provided under Section 39.072(c). In addition, the
3-22 annual report must include a statement of the number, rate, and
3-23 type of violent or criminal incidents that occurred on each
3-24 district campus, to the extent permitted under the Family
3-25 Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Section
3-26 1232g), information concerning school violence prevention and
4-1 violence intervention policies and procedures that the district is
4-2 using to protect students, and the findings that result from
4-3 evaluations conducted under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
4-4 Communities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. Section 7101 et seq.) and its
4-5 subsequent amendments. Supplemental information to be included in
4-6 the reports shall be determined by the board of trustees.
4-7 Performance information in the annual reports on the indicators
4-8 established under Section 39.051 and descriptive information
4-9 required by this section shall be provided by the agency.
4-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
4-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
4-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1724 passed the Senate on
April 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by a
viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1724 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor