83R16534 JSL-D
 
  By: Villarreal H.B. No. 753
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain information to be provided by school districts
  to parents concerning supplemental educational services and to
  Texas Education Agency approval and investigation of supplemental
  educational services providers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding
  Section 26.0082 to read as follows:
         Sec. 26.0082.  SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES.  (a)  In
  this section, "rigorous research" means research that includes:
               (1)  a study design that employs either a randomized
  controlled trial or a quasi-experimental design;
               (2)  an adequate measure of outcomes; and
               (3)  reliable and valid results.
         (b)  As part of the annual notice a school district provides
  to parents under 20 U.S.C. Section 6316(e)(2)(A) concerning
  supplemental educational services, the district shall include
  information provided to the district by the agency that:
               (1)  identifies characteristics of supplemental
  educational services that, based on rigorous research, have been
  demonstrated to be more likely to foster improvement in student
  academic performance, including information concerning the minimum
  number of hours of tutoring necessary for improved performance; and
               (2)  sorts, for each subject for which supplemental
  educational services are provided, supplemental educational
  services providers serving district students according to the
  provider's level of effectiveness in improving student performance
  in the applicable subject area.
         (c)  The agency shall develop and the commissioner by rule
  shall establish a process for approving and revoking approval for a
  supplemental educational services provider.  The agency shall
  maintain a publicly available list of approved providers.  In
  accordance with standards established by commissioner rule, the
  agency shall promptly investigate a complaint against an approved
  provider and promptly remove from the list of approved providers a
  provider for which agency approval has been revoked.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.