By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1784
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the provision of private community-based dropout
1-2 recovery education programs to provide alternative education
1-3 programs for students at risk of dropping out of schools.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 29.081(e) 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. A school district, when utilizing a community-based
1-11 dropout recovery education program, shall develop goals,
1-12 objectives, and guidelines that best address the needs of students
1-13 at risk of dropping out of school. These guidelines shall include,
1-14 but need not be limited to, grading students' work, offering course
1-15 credit, curriculum development and implementation, modifying
1-16 instructional time requirements, performance standards,
1-17 qualifications of staff and faculty, class size, student-faculty
1-18 ratios and methods of evaluating subject mastery. The guidelines
1-19 may, but do not necessarily need to, comply with all the
1-20 requirements of this Code. [The program must grade students' work,
1-21 offer course credit, modify instructional time requirements, and
1-22 establish method of evaluation subject mastery.]
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the crowded
2-3 condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
2-4 an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
2-5 requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
2-6 suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.