83R19058 PAM-D
 
  By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 3907
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to consideration of certain graduates and dropouts in
  evaluation of school districts, campuses, and open-enrollment
  charter schools for accountability purposes.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 39.053(g-1), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (g-1)  In computing dropout and completion rates under
  Subsection (c)(2), the commissioner shall exclude:
               (1)  students who are ordered by a court to attend a
  high school equivalency certificate program but who have not yet
  earned a high school equivalency certificate;
               (2)  students who were previously reported to the state
  as dropouts, including a student who is reported as a dropout,
  reenrolls, and drops out again, regardless of the number of times of
  reenrollment and dropping out;
               (3)  students in attendance who are not in membership
  for purposes of average daily attendance;
               (4)  students whose initial enrollment in a school in
  the United States in grades 7 through 12 was as unschooled refugees
  or asylees as defined by Section 39.027(a-1);
               (5)  students who are in the district exclusively as a
  function of having been detained at a county detention facility but
  are otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is
  located; and
               (6)  students who are incarcerated in state jails and
  federal penitentiaries as adults and as persons certified to stand
  trial as adults.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 39.0541 to read as follows:
         Sec. 39.0541.  STANDARDS FOR EVALUATING COMPLETION AND
  DROPOUT RATES. For purposes of evaluating a school district or
  campus or an open-enrollment charter school for adequate yearly
  progress under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C.
  Section 6301 et seq.) and, notwithstanding Section 39.053(c)(2),
  for accountability under this chapter and for performance under an
  agency performance-based monitoring analysis system:
               (1)  a student who graduates from a school district
  campus or open-enrollment charter school is considered a high
  school graduate of the campus or school regardless of whether the
  student graduates with the student's ninth grade cohort; and
               (2)  consistent with Section 39.053(g-1)(2), a student
  who was previously reported to the state as a dropout, including a
  student who is reported as a dropout, reenrolls, and drops out
  again, regardless of the number of times of reenrollment and
  dropping out, shall be excluded in computing completion and dropout
  rates.
         SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
  school year.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.