1-1     By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 208
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 9, 2001; January 11, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     February 8, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     7, Nays 0; February 8, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to reporting the academic performance of public high
 1-9     school graduates in institutions of higher education.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 39.053, Education Code,
1-12     as amended by Chapters 510 and 1417, Acts of the 76th Legislature,
1-13     Regular Session, 1999, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
1-14           (a)  Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report
1-15     describing the educational performance of the district and of each
1-16     campus in the district that includes uniform student performance
1-17     and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
1-18     the commissioner.  The annual report must also include:
1-19                 (1)  campus performance objectives established under
1-20     Section 11.253 and the progress of each campus toward those
1-21     objectives, which shall be available to the public;
1-22                 (2)  the performance rating for the district as
1-23     provided under Section 39.072(a) and the performance rating of each
1-24     campus in the district as provided under Section 39.072(c); [and]
1-25                 (3)  the district's current special education
1-26     compliance status with the agency;
1-27                 (4)  [.  In addition, the annual report must include] a
1-28     statement of the number, rate, and type of violent or criminal
1-29     incidents that occurred on each district campus, to the extent
1-30     permitted under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of
1-31     1974 (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g);
1-32                 (5)  [,] information concerning school violence
1-33     prevention and violence intervention policies and procedures that
1-34     the district is using to protect students;
1-35                 (6)  [, and] the findings that result from evaluations
1-36     conducted under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act
1-37     of 1994 (20 U.S.C. Section 7101 et seq.) and its subsequent
1-38     amendments; and
1-39                 (7)  information received under Section 51.403(e) for
1-40     each high school campus in the district, presented in a form
1-41     determined by the commissioner.
1-42           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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