85S10343 SRS-D

By: Uresti H.B. No. 231

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to reporting teacher turnover information in the performance report of a public school district.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 39.306(a), Education Code, as effective September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows:

(a) Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report describing the educational performance of the district and of each campus in the district that includes uniform student performance and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by the commissioner. The annual report must also include:

(1) campus performance objectives established under Section 11.253 and the progress of each campus toward those objectives, which shall be available to the public;

(2) information indicating the district's accreditation status and identifying each district campus awarded a distinction designation under Subchapter G or considered an unacceptable campus under Chapter 39A;

(3) the district's current special education compliance status with the agency;

(4) a statement of the number, rate, and type of violent or criminal incidents that occurred on each district campus, to the extent permitted under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g);

(5) information concerning school violence prevention and violence intervention policies and procedures that the district is using to protect students;

(6) the findings that result from evaluations conducted under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. Section 7101 et seq.); [and]

(7) information received under Section 51.403(e) for each high school campus in the district, presented in a form determined by the commissioner; and

(8) information concerning teacher turnover, including the number of teachers:

(A) employed as a teacher in the district for:

(i) not more than 5 years;

(ii) more than 5 years but not more than 10 years; and

(iii) more than 10 years;

(B) transferred from one campus to another campus in the district;

(C) remaining employed by the district in a capacity other than as a teacher;

(D) leaving the district for employment as a teacher in another school district;

(E) leaving the district for employment in a capacity other than as a teacher in another school district; and

(F) leaving employment in public education.

SECTION 2. Section 39.306(e), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(e) The report may include the following information:

(1) student information, including total enrollment, enrollment by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and grade groupings and retention rates;

(2) financial information, including revenues and expenditures;

(3) staff information in addition to the information required under Subsection (a)(8), including number and type of staff by sex, ethnicity, years of experience, and highest degree held, and teacher and administrator salaries[, and teacher turnover];

(4) program information, including student enrollment by program, teachers by program, and instructional operating expenditures by program; and

(5) the number of students placed in a disciplinary alternative education program under Chapter 37.

SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 school year.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017.