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(1) Amend CSSB 1 on page III-2, increase General Revenue,
Fund 193, appropriations in Strategy A.1.1, FSP–Equalized
Operations by $337,117 in each fiscal year of the 2010-11 biennium.
(2) Amend CSSB 1 on page III-2, decrease General Revenue,
Fund 1, appropriations in Strategy A.2.1, Statewide Educational
Programs by $337,117 in each fiscal year of the 2010-11 biennium.
(3) Amend CSSB 1 on page III-20, by striking Rider 86,
Educator Salary Increase, and substituting the following:
86. Educator Salary Increase. Out of General Revenue funds
appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1., FSP–Equalized Operations,
the Commissioner shall allocate $141,400,000 in General Revenue
funds in fiscal year 2010 and $141,400,000 in General Revenue funds
in fiscal year 2011 to school districts and charter schools for the
purpose of providing increased educator salary. The Commissioner
shall allocate funds to each school district and charter school so
that the amounts received in each fiscal year of the 2010-11
biennium are equal to the amounts received in fiscal year 2009 in
association with similar provisions contained in Texas Education
Agency, Rider 86. Educator Salary Increase in the 2008-09 General
Appropriations Act, 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007. Each
district and charter school shall annually report to the Texas
Education Agency information on the use of the educator salary
funds identified by this rider. The Commissioner may adopt rules to
implement the provisions of this rider.
Out of General Revenue funds appropriated above in Strategy
A.1.1, FSP–Equalized Operations, the Commissioner shall allocate
$337,117 in General Revenue funds in fiscal year 2010 and $337,117
in General Revenue funds in fiscal year 2011 to the Windham School
District for the purpose of providing increased educator salary.
(4) Amend CSSB 1 on page III-14, by striking Rider 42,
Student Success Initiative, and substituting the following:
42. Student Success Initiative. Out of the funds
appropriated above in Strategy A.2.1, Statewide Educational
Programs, $154,159,650 in fiscal year 2010 and $154,159,650 in
fiscal year 2011 are allocated for the Student Success Initiative.
The Commissioner shall expend these funds for allocations to
schools for the purpose of implementation of scientific,
research-based programs for students who have been identified as
unlikely to achieve the third grade TAKS reading standard by the end
of the third grade, including those students with dyslexia and
related disorders, students unlikely to achieve the TAKS reading or
math standards by the end of the fifth grade, and/or students
unlikely to achieve TAKS reading or math standards in the eighth
grade assessments administered in 2008.
a. From funds appropriated above, the Commissioner may
allocate funding to continue teacher reading academies for
previously untrained teachers in grades 6, 7, and 8, and training in
teaching reading across content areas for grades 6-8 math, science
and social studies teachers. Where applicable, the academies shall
include training in the use of the diagnostic instruments and
intensive reading instruction programs developed under the
Adolescent Literacy Initiative.
b. From funds appropriated for the Student Success
Initiative, and from any available Federal Funds, the Commissioner
shall distribute the supplemental diagnostic screening instruments
and intensive reading instruction programs developed under the
Adolescent Literacy Initiative to school districts and charter
schools.
c. Any balances as of August 31, 2010, are appropriated for
fiscal year 2011 for the same purposes.
Notwithstanding the purposes described above by this rider,
the Commissioner shall allocate $154,159,650 in fiscal year 2010
and $154,159,650 in fiscal year 2011 to implement programs that
promote student success, minimize assessment failure, and close
student achievement gaps consistent with the goals and provisions
of the Texas Education Code as amended by any legislation enacted by
the Eighty-first Legislature, Regular Session.