HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:   Public Education 

TIME & DATE: 12:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 

PLACE:       E2.036 
CHAIR:       Rep. Dan Huberty 

The order in which bills are heard is at the discretion of the chair.

*Testimony will be limited to two (2) minutes.*

HB 22         Huberty                
Relating to public school accountability.

HB 61         Guillen                
Relating to consideration under the public school accountability system of performance on assessment instruments by certain students formerly receiving special education services.

HB 79         Guillen                
Relating to the use of alternative assessment instruments for students in a special education program of a public school district.

HB 145        Dutton                 
Relating to public school students evaluated for purposes of accountability ratings in certain school districts.

HB 515        VanDeaver | et al.     
Relating to eliminating certain state-required assessment instruments and certain end-of-course assessment instruments not required by federal law.

HB 546        Deshotel               
Relating to limiting certain state-required assessment instruments administered to public school students in certain grades to assessments required by federal law.

HB 657        Bernal                 
Relating to procedures for a student enrolled in a special education program who fails to perform satisfactorily on certain assessment instruments.

HB 789        Meyer                  
Relating to minimum scores required for students in certain school districts to pass an examination for acceleration or for credit.

HB 795        Johnson, Jarvis        
Relating to public school accountability

HB 988        González, Mary         
Relating to establishing a pilot program under which public schools may develop a portfolio method to assess student performance in grades three through eight for purposes of accountability and qualification for promotion.

HB 989        González, Mary         
Relating to establishing a pilot program under which public schools may develop a portfolio method to assess secondary-level student performance for purposes of accountability and qualification for graduation.

HB 1057       Thompson, Senfronia    
Relating to indicators of achievement under the public school accountability system.

HB 1174       Hinojosa, Gina | et al.
Relating to indicators of achievement under the public school accountability system.

HB 1336       Leach | et al.         
Relating to financial reporting by a school district regarding the costs associated with administering certain assessment instruments.

HB 1500       Giddings | et al.      
Relating to indicators of achievement under the public school accountability system.

HB 1650       Goldman | et al.       
Relating to successful completion of a United States history dual credit course as an alternative to compliance with the United States history end-of-course assessment requirement.

HB 1731       King, Ken              
Relating to the inclusion of students receiving treatment in a residential facility in the determination of dropout rates for purposes of public school accountability.

HB 1776       Ashby                  
Relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment instrument for public high school students.

HB 1993       Anderson, Rodney       
Relating to the authorization of alternative assessment instruments for use under the public school accountability system.

HB 2263       Gooden                 
Relating to continued monitoring of certain public school campuses that have been assigned a campus intervention team.

HB 3075       Huberty                
Relating to excluding certain students from the computation of dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school accountability.

HB 3104       VanDeaver              
Relating to the assessment of public school students in writing and English language arts.

HB 3607       King, Ken              
Relating to secondary-level assessment of public school students.

HB 3828       Huberty                
Relating to accreditation interventions and sanctions.

Pending Business

The committee will hear additional testimony on H.B. 21 by Huberty (school finance bill).

The committee may also consider other pending business.

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