1-1 By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1784
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 16, 1999,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
1-5 April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the provision of private community-based dropout
1-9 recovery education programs to provide alternative education
1-10 programs for students at risk of dropping out of school.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 29.081, Education Code,
1-13 is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (e) A school district may use a private or public
1-15 community-based dropout recovery education program to provide
1-16 alternative education programs for students at risk of dropping out
1-17 of school. A school district, when utilizing a community-based
1-18 dropout recovery education program, shall develop goals,
1-19 objectives, and guidelines that best address the needs of students
1-20 at risk of dropping out of school. These guidelines shall include,
1-21 but need not be limited to, grading students' work, offering course
1-22 credit, curriculum development and implementation, modifying
1-23 instructional time requirements, performance standards,
1-24 qualifications of staff and faculty, class size, student-faculty
1-25 ratios, and methods of evaluating subject mastery. The guidelines
1-26 may, but do not necessarily need to, comply with all the
1-27 requirements of this code. [The program must grade students' work,
1-28 offer course credit, modify instructional time requirements, and
1-29 establish methods of evaluating subject mastery.]
1-30 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-31 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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