| TO: | Honorable Dan Patrick, Chair, Senate Committee On Education |
| FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB1538 by Van de Putte (Relating to evaluating the performance, including computing dropout and completion rates, of public schools, including schools designated as dropout recovery schools and residential facilities.), As Introduced |
The bill would prohibit the commissioner of education from considering certain types of at-risk students as dropouts in computing dropout and completion rates.
The bill would require the commissioner, in evaluating performance on student achievement indicators, to designate as a dropout recovery school a district or open-enrollment charter school or a district or charter school campus that was required to register under alternative accountability procedures and at which 50 percent or more of students were 17 years old or older.
The bill would require the commissioner to adopt an alternative computation of dropout and completion rates for dropout recovery schools for purposes of determining the schools' performance.
Based on the analysis of the Texas Education Agency, the duties and responsibilities associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be accomplished by utilizing existing resources.
| Source Agencies: | 701 Central Education Agency
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| LBB Staff: | UP, JBi, JSc
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