AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

 

Currently, students being served while in a Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) facility are not counted for the purposes of dropout and completion rates if they are receiving education services through a public school district.  However, if a TJJD facility is being operated by a charter school, the same exemption does not apply.

 

S.B. 1170 would simply extend the same dropout and completion rate exemption for students receiving educational services through a charter school.

 

As proposed, S.B. 1170 amends current law relating to excluding certain students from the computation of dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school accountability of open-enrollment charter schools.

 

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 39.053(g-1), Education Code, as follows:

 

(g-1)  Requires the commissioner of education, in computing dropout and completion rates under Subsection (c)(2) (relating to indicators of student achievement), to exclude:

 

(1)-(4) Makes no change to these subdivisions;

 

(5)  students who are detained at a county detention facility and:

 

(A)  in the district exclusively as a function of having been detained at the facility, rather than at the county detention facility, but are otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is located; or

 

(B)  provided services by an open-enrollment charter school exclusively as the result of having been detained at the facility; and

 

Makes nonsubstantive changes.

 

(6)  Makes no change to this subdivision.

 

SECTION 2.  Provides that this Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.

 

SECTION 3.  Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2015.