Amend Amendment No. 89 by Villarreal to CSSB 1 (page 127 of
the amendment packet) by striking the text of the amendment and
substituting the following:
Amend CSSB 1 as follows:
(1) On page III-2, in the appropriations to the Texas
Education Agency, increase Strategy A.1.1, FSP–Equalized
Operations, by $171,390,728 in fiscal year 2010 and $171,390,729 in
fiscal year 2011.
(2) On page III-2, in the appropriations to the Texas
Education Agency, decrease Strategy B.3.1, Improving Educator
Quality/LDRSP, by $171,390,728 in fiscal year 2010 and $171,390,729
in fiscal year 2011.
(3) On pages III-18 and III-19, following the appropriations
to the Texas Education Agency, strike Rider 65, Student Achievement
and Educator Excellence Awards Programs.
(4) On page III-21, following the appropriations to the
Texas Education Agency, amend Rider 83, Foundation School Program
Funds for Improving Equity, Reducing Recapture, and Providing
Educator Salary Increases, to read as follows:
83. Foundation School Program Funds for Improving Equity,
Reducing Recapture, and Providing Educator Salary Increases.
Contingent on passage and enactment of legislation by the
Eighty-first Legislature, Regular Session, relating to the return
to a formula-driven public school finance system that improves
equity, reduces recapture, and provides [that may provide] for
increases to educator salaries [salary], out of the Foundation
School Funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1., FSP–Equalized
Operations and A.1.2, FSP–Equalized Facilities, $1,104,390,728
[$933,000,000] in [each] fiscal year 2010 and $1,104,390,729 in
fiscal year 2011 [of the 2010-11 biennium] is allocated for the
purposes of the legislation. Consistent with this allocation,
$171,390,728 in fiscal year 2010 and $171,390,729 in fiscal year
2011 is further allocated for the following purposes:
(1) recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers
for campuses serving a disproportionately high number of
economically disadvantaged students;
(2) recruiting and retaining teachers certified in
mathematics, science, special education, bilingual education, or
English as a second language;
(3) providing teacher induction and mentoring support;
or
(4) previously developed incentive programs.
The Texas Education Agency shall notify school districts of
the amount of formula funding that is intended for the purposes
identified by Subdivisions (1), (2), and (3) of this rider.
Should legislation relating to the return to a formula-driven
public school finance system that improves equity and reduces
recapture fail to pass, appropriations of Foundation School Funds
to Strategy A.1.1, FSP–Equalized Operations and A.1.2,
FSP–Equalized Facilities, are hereby reduced by $933,000,000 in
each year of the 2010-11 biennium, and Strategy B.3.1, Improving
Educator Quality/LDRSP, is hereby increased by $171,390,728 in
fiscal year 2010 and $171,390,729 in fiscal year 2011.
(5) Adjust totals and methods of finance appropriately.