AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Under the Education Code, each school district is required to participate in the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS). PEIMS is a system that compiles aggregated information about all students in public education. PEIMS provides student data in the areas of student demographics and academic performance, personnel, and school district finances. Students are tracked under PEIMS codes based on different distinguishing characteristics. At present, there is no PEIMS code for students in foster care, students in foster care are not being tracked and there is a lack of helpful information about these students.
C.S.S.B. 833 amends current law relating to the collection of data through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) as to the foster care status of public school students.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
Rulemaking authority is expressly granted to the commissioner of education in SECTION 1 (Section 7.029, Education Code) of this bill.
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 7.029, Education Code, by adding Subsection (b-1), to require the Texas Education Agency (TEA), to facilitate implementation of Subsection (a)(2) (relating to the requirement that TEA provide the Department of Family Protective Services with aggregate information regarding education outcomes of certain students), to, in the manner established by commissioner of education rule, collect data through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) as to the foster care status of students.
SECTION 2. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2013.