HBA-TBM S.B. 26 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 26
By: Shapiro
Public Education
4/26/2001
Engrossed



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, the commissioner of education (commissioner) may close a
consistently low-performing school, but Texas does not have a program in
place to reconstitute the school.  No process allows the commissioner to
take measures to disband a low-performing school's faculty and reopen the
school with new staff.  Senate Bill 26 authorizes the commissioner to
reconstitute a school if the school is classified as low-performing for two
or more consecutive years.   

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

Senate Bill 26 amends the Education Code to provide that if a campus has
been a low-performing campus for a period of two years or more, the
commissioner of education is authorized to order reassignment to other
appropriate positions in the district of some or all of the educators
employed for at least the two preceding years on the campus.  

EFFECTIVE DATE

Upon passage.  The Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002 school year.