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Amend Amendment No. 7 to CSHB 1025 as follows:
(1)  Add after "bill," on line 2 "replace '$500,000,000' on page 10 line 19 with '$460,000,000'."
(2)  Strike beginning on line 2 with the word "strike" through the end of line 7 and insert a new appropriately numbered subsection that reads as follows:
"Insert a new section into CSHB 1025 and renumber accordingly that reads as follows:
'SECTION ____.  TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY: Summer Programs for Students At Risk. $40,000,000 is added for Strategy A.2.2, Achievement of Students At Risk, as listed in Chapter 1355 (HB 1), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011 (the General Appropriations Act), for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2013, for the purpose of, during summer recess, providing within a single program learning opportunities to educationally disadvantaged students, mentorship and professional development opportunities for new teachers, and additional compensation to a district's best teachers to both teach educationally disadvantaged students and mentor new teachers. A rigorous evaluation shall be conducted by a third party for this program, and not more than 10 percent of the $40,000,000 may be used for program administrative and evaluation costs.'" In allocating money for grants under the summer programs for students at risk, the Texas Education Agency must allocate money equally to provide 10 grants such that public schools, considered in categories described by student enrollment, compete for grants such that schools in the top 20 percent category by enrollment compete for two available grants, schools in the second 20 percent category by enrollment compete for two available grants, schools in the third 20 percent category by enrollment compete for two available grants, schools in the fourth 20 percent category by enrollment compete for two available grants, and schools in the bottom 20 percent category by enrollment compete for two available grants.