AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Currently under the public education grant (PEG) program, a student attending an academically unacceptable school is eligible to transfer to another school for three years following the year of that rating, regardless of whether the school improves its rating in any of those three years. H.B. 222 seeks to reduce the three-year eligibility window to two years.
H.B. 222 amends current law relating to a public school student's eligibility for a public education grant to attend another public school.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 29.202(a), Education Code, as follows:
(a) Provides that a student is eligible to receive a public education grant or to attend another public school in the district in which the student resides under this subchapter if the student is assigned to attend a public school campus:
(1) Makes no change to this subdivision; or
(2) that in either of the preceding two years was assigned a rating of unacceptable performances under Section 39.054 (Methods and Standards for Evaluating Performance).
Deletes existing text providing that a student is eligible to receive a public education grant or to attend another public school in the district in which the student resides under this subchapter if the student is assigned to attend a public school campus that, at any time in the preceding three years, failed to satisfy any standard under Section 39.054(e) (relating to requiring each annual performance review under this section to include an analysis of the student achievement indicators to determine school district and campus performance in relation to certain standards and improvements).
SECTION 2. Provides that this Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.
SECTION 3. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2013.