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Amend the Eissler amendment to HB 2217 as follows:
(1) On page 21 of the amendment, line 23, strike "Section 39.115" and substitute "Sections 39.115 and 39.116".
(2) On page 22 of the amendment, between lines 12 and 13,
insert the following:
Sec. 39.116. RECONSTITUTION ALTERNATIVE INITIATIVE. (a)
In order to prevent dropouts and disruptions that result from
reconstitution of campuses, the commissioner is not required to
take action under Section 39.1324(a) during the second consecutive
school year for which a campus is identified as academically
unacceptable or, regardless of the continued identification of the
campus as academically unacceptable, during the third school year
if:
(1) the campus demonstrates improvement, as measured
from the preceding school year, in relation to performance on the
indicator or indicators under Section 39.051 on which the
identification as academically unacceptable for the current school
year is based; or
(2) the identification of the campus as academically
unacceptable for the current year is based on a single indicator
under Section 39.051 that:
(A) was not a basis for identification of the
campus as academically unacceptable for the preceding school year;
and
(B) is based on the performance of a group of
students that is not more than 30 percent of the total campus
student population.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 39.1324(b), a principal who has
been employed by the campus in that capacity during the period
described by Subsection (a) and whose campus has not demonstrated
adequate improvement may not be retained at that campus.
(c) Section 39.1324(e) does not apply and closure of a
campus is not required if the identification as academically
unacceptable is based on a single indicator under Section 39.051
that:
(1) was not a basis for identification of the campus as
academically unacceptable for the preceding school year; and
(2) is based on the performance of a group of students
that is not more than 30 percent of the total campus student
population.