By Ellis S.B. No. 1724
76R7330 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to public school campus improvement plans and school
1-3 district performance reports.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.253, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 11.253. CAMPUS PLANNING AND SITE-BASED DECISION-MAKING.
1-8 (a) Each school district shall maintain current policies and
1-9 procedures to ensure that effective planning and site-based
1-10 decision-making occur at each campus to direct and support the
1-11 improvement of student performance for all students.
1-12 (b) Each district's policy and procedures shall establish
1-13 campus-level planning and decision-making committees as provided
1-14 for through the procedures provided by Sections 11.251(b)-(e).
1-15 (c) Each school year, the principal of each school campus,
1-16 with the assistance of the campus-level committee, shall develop,
1-17 review, and revise the campus improvement plan for the purpose of
1-18 improving student performance for all student populations with
1-19 respect to the academic excellence indicators adopted under Section
1-20 39.051 and any other appropriate performance measures for special
1-21 needs populations.
1-22 (d) Each campus improvement plan must:
1-23 (1) assess the academic achievement for each student
1-24 in the school using the academic excellence indicator system as
2-1 described by Section 39.051;
2-2 (2) set the campus performance objectives based on the
2-3 academic excellence indicator system, including objectives for
2-4 special needs populations;
2-5 (3) identify how the campus goals will be met for each
2-6 student;
2-7 (4) determine the resources needed to implement the
2-8 plan;
2-9 (5) identify staff needed to implement the plan;
2-10 (6) set timelines for reaching the goals; and
2-11 (7) measure progress toward the performance objectives
2-12 periodically to ensure that the plan is resulting in academic
2-13 improvement.
2-14 (e) A campus improvement plan may include goals and methods
2-15 for violence prevention and intervention on campus. If the plan is
2-16 to include those goals and methods, the campus-level planning and
2-17 decision-making committee shall appoint a subcommittee composed of
2-18 parents and teachers to study and make recommendations to the
2-19 committee concerning:
2-20 (1) the student code of conduct adopted under Section
2-21 37.001 and other campus safety issues;
2-22 (2) programs that are needed to teach students to
2-23 effectively deal with conflict and to assist students in acquiring
2-24 the emotional skills necessary to deal with anger and with
2-25 situations that are likely to lead to violence; and
2-26 (3) the type and amount of training teachers need to
2-27 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. Section 39.053(a), Education Code, is amended to
3-23 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
3-27 and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
4-1 the commissioner. The annual report must also include campus
4-2 performance objectives established under Section 11.253 and the
4-3 progress of each campus toward those objectives, which shall be
4-4 available to the public, and [. The annual report must also
4-5 include] the performance rating for the district as provided under
4-6 Section 39.072(a) and the performance rating of each campus in the
4-7 district as provided under Section 39.072(c). In addition, the
4-8 annual report must include a statement of the number, rate, and
4-9 type of violent or criminal incidents that occurred on each
4-10 district campus, information concerning school violence prevention
4-11 and violence intervention policies and procedures that the district
4-12 is using to protect students, and the findings that result from
4-13 evaluations conducted under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
4-14 Communities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. Section 7101 et seq.) and its
4-15 subsequent amendments. Supplemental information to be included in
4-16 the reports shall be determined by the board of trustees.
4-17 Performance information in the annual reports on the indicators
4-18 established under Section 39.051 and descriptive information
4-19 required by this section shall be provided by the agency.
4-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
4-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
4-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.