1-1     By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1724
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 19, 1999,
 1-4     reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 19, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1724                   By:  Ogden
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to public school campus improvement plans and school
1-10     district performance reports.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 11.253, Education Code, is amended to
1-13     read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 11.253.  Campus Planning and Site-Based Decision-Making.
1-15     (a)  Each school district shall maintain current policies and
1-16     procedures to ensure that effective planning and site-based
1-17     decision-making occur at each campus to direct and support the
1-18     improvement of student performance for all students.
1-19           (b)  Each district's policy and procedures shall establish
1-20     campus-level planning and decision-making committees as provided
1-21     for through the procedures provided by Sections 11.251(b)-(e).
1-22           (c)  Each school year, the principal of each school campus,
1-23     with the assistance of the campus-level committee, shall develop,
1-24     review, and revise the campus improvement plan for the purpose of
1-25     improving student performance for all student populations with
1-26     respect to the academic excellence indicators adopted under Section
1-27     39.051 and any other appropriate performance measures for special
1-28     needs populations.
1-29           (d)  Each campus improvement plan must:
1-30                 (1)  assess the academic achievement for each student
1-31     in the school using the academic excellence indicator system as
1-32     described by Section 39.051;
1-33                 (2)  set the campus performance objectives based on the
1-34     academic excellence indicator system, including objectives for
1-35     special needs populations;
1-36                 (3)  identify how the campus goals will be met for each
1-37     student;
1-38                 (4)  determine the resources needed to implement the
1-39     plan;
1-40                 (5)  identify staff needed to implement the plan;
1-41                 (6)  set timelines for reaching the goals; and
1-42                 (7)  measure progress toward the performance objectives
1-43     periodically to ensure that the plan is resulting in academic
1-44     improvement.
1-45           (e)  A campus improvement plan may include goals and methods
1-46     for violence prevention and intervention on campus.  If the plan is
1-47     to include those goals and methods, the campus-level planning and
1-48     decision-making committee shall appoint a subcommittee composed of
1-49     parents and teachers to study and make recommendations to the
1-50     committee concerning:
1-51                 (1)  the student code of conduct adopted under Section
1-52     37.001 and other campus safety issues;
1-53                 (2)  programs that are needed to teach students to
1-54     effectively deal with conflict and to assist students in acquiring
1-55     the emotional skills necessary to deal with anger and with
1-56     situations that are likely to lead to violence; and
1-57                 (3)  the type and amount of training teachers need to
1-58     assist the teachers in preventing and intervening in violent
1-59     situations.
1-60           (f)  In accordance with the administrative procedures
1-61     established under Section 11.251(b), the campus-level committee
1-62     shall be involved in decisions in the areas of planning, budgeting,
1-63     curriculum, staffing patterns, staff development, and school
1-64     organization.  The campus-level committee must approve the portions
 2-1     of the campus plan addressing campus staff development needs.
 2-2           (g) [(f)]  This section does not create a new cause of action
 2-3     or require collective bargaining.
 2-4           (h) [(g)]  Each campus-level committee shall hold at least
 2-5     one public meeting per year.  The required meeting shall be held
 2-6     after receipt of the annual campus rating from the agency to
 2-7     discuss the performance of the campus and the campus performance
 2-8     objectives.  District policy and campus procedures must be
 2-9     established to ensure that systematic communications measures are
2-10     in place to periodically obtain broad-based community, parent, and
2-11     staff input, and to provide information to those persons regarding
2-12     the recommendations of the campus-level committees.
2-13           (i) [(h)]  A principal shall regularly consult the
2-14     campus-level committee in the planning, operation, supervision, and
2-15     evaluation of the campus educational program.
2-16           SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 39.053, Education Code,
2-17     is amended to read as follows:
2-18           (a)  Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report
2-19     describing the educational performance of the district and of each
2-20     campus in the district that includes uniform student performance
2-21     and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
2-22     the commissioner.  The annual report must also include campus
2-23     performance objectives established under Section 11.253 and the
2-24     progress of each campus toward those objectives, which shall be
2-25     available to the public, and[.  The annual report must also
2-26     include] the performance rating for the district as provided under
2-27     Section 39.072(a) and the performance rating of each campus in the
2-28     district as provided under Section 39.072(c).  In addition, the
2-29     annual report must include a statement of the number, rate, and
2-30     type of violent or criminal incidents that occurred on each
2-31     district campus, to the extent permitted under the Family
2-32     Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Section
2-33     1232g), information concerning school violence prevention and
2-34     violence intervention policies and procedures that the district is
2-35     using to protect students, and the findings that result from
2-36     evaluations conducted under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
2-37     Communities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. Section 7101 et seq.) and its
2-38     subsequent amendments.  Supplemental information to be included in
2-39     the reports shall be determined by the board of trustees.
2-40     Performance information in the annual reports on the indicators
2-41     established under Section 39.051 and descriptive information
2-42     required by this section shall be provided by the agency.
2-43           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-44           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-45     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-46     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-47     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-48     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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