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.
 5-3                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
 5-4           Amend proposed SB 1724 as follows:
 5-5           On page 2 strike lines 13-26 and on page 3 strike line 1 and
 5-6     substituting the following:
 5-7                 (8)  include goals and methods for violence prevention
 5-8     and intervention on campus.
 5-9                                                                Oliveira