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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