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.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 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.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor