76R14981
By Gallegos S.B. No. 1784
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1784:
By Sadler C.S.S.B. No. 1784
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to school district use of community-based dropout recovery
1-3 education programs to provide alternative education programs for
1-4 certain students.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 29.081(e), Education Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (e) A school district may use a private or public
1-9 community-based dropout recovery education program to provide
1-10 alternative education programs for students at risk of dropping out
1-11 of school. The programs must:
1-12 (1) provide not less than four hours of instructional
1-13 time per day;
1-14 (2) employ as faculty and administrators persons with
1-15 baccalaureate or advanced degrees;
1-16 (3) provide at least one instructor for each 28
1-17 students;
1-18 (4) perform satisfactorily according to performance
1-19 indicators and accountability standards adopted for alternative
1-20 education programs by the commissioner; and
1-21 (5) comply with this title and rules adopted under
1-22 this title except as otherwise provided by this subsection [program
1-23 must grade students' work, offer course credit, modify
2-1 instructional time requirements, and establish methods of
2-2 evaluating subject mastery].
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
2-4 school year.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.