AN ACT
1-1 relating to school district use of community-based dropout recovery
1-2 education programs to provide alternative education programs for
1-3 certain students.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 29.081, Education Code,
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (e) A school district may use a private or public
1-8 community-based dropout recovery education program to provide
1-9 alternative education programs for students at risk of dropping out
1-10 of school. The programs must:
1-11 (1) provide not less than four hours of instructional
1-12 time per day;
1-13 (2) employ as faculty and administrators persons with
1-14 baccalaureate or advanced degrees;
1-15 (3) provide at least one instructor for each 28
1-16 students;
1-17 (4) perform satisfactorily according to performance
1-18 indicators and accountability standards adopted for alternative
1-19 education programs by the commissioner; and
1-20 (5) comply with this title and rules adopted under
1-21 this title except as otherwise provided by this subsection [program
1-22 must grade students' work, offer course credit, modify
1-23 instructional time requirements, and establish methods of
1-24 evaluating subject mastery].
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
2-2 school year.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1784 passed the Senate on
May 4, 1999, by a viva-voce vote; and that the Senate concurred in
House amendment on May 28, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1784 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 25, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 145,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor