| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the approval and modification of a campus turnaround |
|
|
plan submitted by a school district. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 39.107, Education Code, is amended by |
|
|
adding Subsections (b-10), (b-11), and (b-12) to read as follows: |
|
|
(b-10) Not later than June 15 of each year, the commissioner |
|
|
shall, in writing, either approve or reject any campus turnaround |
|
|
plan prepared and submitted to the commissioner by a district. If |
|
|
the commissioner rejects a campus turnaround plan, the commissioner |
|
|
must also send the district an outline of the specific concerns |
|
|
regarding the turnaround plan that resulted in the rejection. |
|
|
(b-11) If the commissioner rejects a campus turnaround |
|
|
plan, the district must submit a modified plan to the commissioner |
|
|
for approval not later than September 1. |
|
|
(b-12) If the agency assists or offers assistance to a |
|
|
district in modifying a campus turnaround plan following a |
|
|
rejection under Subsection (b-10), the agency may only require |
|
|
participation by the district in initiatives that directly relate |
|
|
to a concern raised in regard to the rejected campus turnaround plan |
|
|
that was identified by the commissioner under Subsection (b- |
|
|
10). |
|
|
SECTION 2. 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, 2017. |