C.S.H.B. 2939 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


C.S.H.B. 2939
By: McReynolds
Public Education
Committee Report (Substituted)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

The Education Code, Chapter 11, Subchapter E provides the duties,
responsibilities, and definitions of school administrators.  Many feel
there is a disconnect between administration and teaching staff. One way
to resolve this situation would be to require administrators to return to
the classroom. C.S.H.B. 2939 requires certain administrators to serve as a
classroom teacher by teaching a course to one class for a full semester
once every 5 years. This will provide tangible  teaching experience for
administrators' decisions which affect classroom instruction. 


RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not grant any additional
rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or
institution. 


ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 2939 amends the Education Code to require administrators to serve
as a classroom teacher by teaching a course, in an area related to the
administrator's certification,  to one class for a full semester once
every 5 years. 

This Act applies beginning with the 2003-2004 school year.


EFFECTIVE DATE

Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2003. 


COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 2939 modifies the original by deleting provisions relating to
guidelines developed by a campus-level committee established under Section
11.251, Education Code, and the prohibition of school district funds being
used to pay an administrator who is not in compliance with this section.