BILL ANALYSIS
By: Hilderbran
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Currently, students who are sent to a Texas Juvenile Probation Commission facility are having a significant impact on the local school district's accountability rating system used by the Texas Education Agency.
This bill amends the Education Code so that the performance of a student sent to a juvenile detention facility operated by the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission or any government entity shall not impact the accountability rating of the school district where the juvenile facility is located.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
This bill amends a current provision of the Education Code by adding a provision to the effect that, notwithstanding any other provision of the Education Code, for purposes of determining the performance of a school district under this Chapter 39, Education Code, including the accreditation status of the district, a student confined by court order in a residential program or facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, or any other governmental entity, including a juvenile board, is not considered to be a student of the school district in which the program or facility is physically located. The performance of such a student on an assessment instrument or other academic excellence indicator adopted under Section 39.051, Education Code, shall be determined, reported, and considered separately from the performance of students attending a school of the district in which the program or facility is physically located.
The bill provides that the Act applies beginning with the 2007-2008 school year.
EFFECTIVE DATE
Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act takes effect September 1, 2007.