77R12818 CAS-F
By Garcia, Olivo, Pickett H.B. No. 1291
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1291:
By Olivo C.S.H.B. No. 1291
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to information in public school campus report cards
1-3 concerning students who do not graduate from high school in four
1-4 years.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 5.001, Education Code, is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 Sec. 5.001. DEFINITIONS. In this title:
1-9 (1) "Agency" means the Texas Education Agency.
1-10 (2) "Classroom teacher" means an educator who is
1-11 employed by a school district and who, not less than an average of
1-12 four hours each day, teaches in an academic instructional setting
1-13 or a career and technology instructional setting. The term does
1-14 not include a teacher's aide or a full-time administrator.
1-15 (3) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of
1-16 education.
1-17 (4) "Dropout" means a student enrolled in a public
1-18 school in this state:
1-19 (A) who withdraws from school without earning a
1-20 high school diploma; and
1-21 (B) whose enrollment in another public school or
1-22 a private school in this country that grants high school diplomas
1-23 has not been verified and recorded by a school district in this
1-24 state or by the agency.
2-1 (5) "Educationally disadvantaged" means eligible to
2-2 participate in the national free or reduced-price lunch program
2-3 established under 42 U.S.C. Section 1751 et seq.
2-4 (6) [(5)] "Educator" means a person who is required to
2-5 hold a certificate issued under Subchapter B, Chapter 21.
2-6 (7) "High school graduate" means a person who has
2-7 been awarded a high school diploma.
2-8 (8) [(6)] "Open-enrollment charter school" means a
2-9 school that has been granted a charter under Subchapter D, Chapter
2-10 12.
2-11 (9) [(7)] "Regional education service centers" means a
2-12 system of regional and educational services established in Chapter
2-13 8.
2-14 (10) [(8)] "Residential facility" means:
2-15 (A) a facility operated by a state agency or
2-16 political subdivision, including a child placement agency, that
2-17 provides 24-hour custody or care of a person 22 years of age or
2-18 younger, if the person resides in the facility for detention,
2-19 treatment, foster care, or any noneducational purpose; and
2-20 (B) any person or entity that contracts with or
2-21 is funded, licensed, certified, or regulated by a state agency or
2-22 political subdivision to provide custody or care for a person under
2-23 Paragraph (A).
2-24 SECTION 2. Section 39.052(c), Education Code, is amended to
2-25 read as follows:
2-26 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for requiring
2-27 dissemination of appropriate class size and student performance
3-1 portions of campus report cards annually to the parent[, guardian,
3-2 conservator,] or other person having lawful control of each student
3-3 at the campus. In the case of a report card relating to a high
3-4 school campus, the portions of campus report cards disseminated to
3-5 the parent or other person having lawful control of a student must
3-6 include information displayed conspicuously and printed in
3-7 boldfaced type concerning the number and percentage of students who
3-8 did not complete the 12th grade during the fourth school year after
3-9 the school year in which the student entered the 9th grade. The
3-10 parent or other person having lawful control of a former campus
3-11 student who has dropped out of school shall also be provided the
3-12 information required by this subsection as soon as practicable
3-13 after the student drops out of school. On written request, the
3-14 school district shall provide a copy of a campus report card to any
3-15 other party.
3-16 SECTION 3. Section 39.073, Education Code, is amended by
3-17 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
3-18 (f) Beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, in addition to
3-19 other criteria that must be met, a high school campus may not be
3-20 rated as acceptable or higher unless the longitudinal dropout rate
3-21 of the campus for each category specified by this subsection is
3-22 five percent or less, and a school district may not be rated as
3-23 academically acceptable or higher unless the longitudinal dropout
3-24 rate of the district for each category specified by this subsection
3-25 is five percent or less. For purposes of this section, information
3-26 concerning dropout rates shall be disaggregated by race, ethnicity,
3-27 sex, socioeconomic status, and status as a student of limited
4-1 English proficiency as defined by Section 29.052. In this section,
4-2 "longitudinal dropout rate" means a rate computed as a percentage
4-3 of:
4-4 (1) campus dropouts over a four-year period measured
4-5 against a cohort of campus students who entered the ninth grade at
4-6 the same time as the dropouts, if determining the longitudinal
4-7 dropout rate of a high school campus; and
4-8 (2) school district dropouts over a four-year period
4-9 measured against a cohort of district students who entered the
4-10 ninth grade at the same time as the dropouts, if determining the
4-11 longitudinal dropout rate of a district.
4-12 SECTION 4. Not later than January 1, 2002, the commissioner
4-13 of education shall adopt rules in accordance with Section
4-14 39.052(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act. Those rules
4-15 apply to public school campus report cards for the 2002-2003 school
4-16 year and thereafter.
4-17 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
4-18 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
4-19 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
4-20 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
4-21 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.