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By:  Grusendorf                                                   H.B. No. 3012



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to public education investment capital fund                          
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 7.024, Education Code, is amended by 
amending subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) to read as follows:
	(b)  The commissioner may make grants from the fund to 
eligible schools or clusters of eligible schools organizing 
collaboratively inside a school district and/or under a district 
charter.
	(c)  Schools or clusters of schools are eligible to apply for 
a grant if the school has demonstrated a commitment to campus 
deregulation and to restructuring educational practices and 
conditions at the school by entering into a partnership with:
		(1)  school staff;                                                            
		(2)  parents of students at the school;                                       
		(3)  community and business leaders;                                          
		(4)  school district officers;                                                
		(5)  a nonprofit, community-based organization that 
has demonstrated capacity to train, develop, and organize parents 
and community leaders into a large, nonpartisan constituency that 
will hold the school and the school district accountable for 
achieving high academic standards; and
		(6)  the agency.                                                              
	(d)  A grant from the fund shall be made directly to the 
school or to the campus so designated in a cluster's application and 
may be used for the training and development of school staff, 
parents, and community leaders in order that they understand and 
implement the high academic standards and practices necessary for 
high academic achievement, appropriate strategies to deregulate 
and restructure the school or cluster of schools in order to improve 
student achievement, and effective strategies to organize parents 
and community leaders into a large, nonpartisan constituency that 
will hold the school and the school district accountable for 
achieving high academic standards.  The grant may be used to 
implement strategies developed by the partners that are designed to 
enrich or extend student learning experiences outside of the 
regular school day.
	(e)  The commissioner may make a grant of up to $55,000 each 
academic year to an eligible school or may make a larger grant to a 
cluster of eligible schools organizing collaboratively inside a 
school district and/or under a district charter which does not 
exceed $50,000 per campus.  Campus administration personnel of a 
school that receives a grant under this section are accountable to 
the commissioner of education and must demonstrate:
		(1)  the responsible use of the grant to achieve campus 
deregulation and restructuring to improve academic performance;
		(2)  a comprehensive plan to engage in ongoing 
development and training of teachers, parents, and community 
leaders to:
			(A)  understand academic standards;                                          
			(B)  develop effective strategies to improve 
academic performance; and     
			(C)  organize a large constituency of parents and 
community leaders to hold the school and school district 
accountable to achieve high academic standards;
		(3)  ongoing progress in achieving higher academic 
performance; and         
		(4)  ongoing progress in identifying, training, and 
organizing parents and community leaders who are holding the school 
and the school district accountable for achieving high academic 
standards.