Bill Text: TX HB1207 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to additional optional training and course work for public school principals.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-14 - Referred to Education [HB1207 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1207-Engrossed.html
| By: Guillen, Ramos, Muñoz, Jr. | H.B. No. 1207 | |
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| relating to additional optional training and course work for public | ||
| school principals. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.0461 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.0461. SCHOOL TURNAROUND SPECIALIST ENDORSEMENT TO | ||
| PRINCIPAL CERTIFICATE. (a) The board shall propose rules | ||
| establishing the training requirements and course work a principal | ||
| must successfully complete to receive a school turnaround | ||
| specialist endorsement as an addendum to a principal certificate. | ||
| In proposing the rules, the board shall ensure that each person who | ||
| receives the endorsement: | ||
| (1) demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to | ||
| significantly improve teacher and student performance at a campus | ||
| assigned an overall performance rating of F under Section 39.054; | ||
| (2) has served as a principal at a campus that has | ||
| successfully implemented a campus turnaround plan under Subchapter | ||
| C, Chapter 39A; and | ||
| (3) did not serve as a principal at a campus that was | ||
| assigned an overall performance rating of F under Section 39.054 | ||
| for two or more consecutive school years. | ||
| (b) The board shall solicit proposals for a school | ||
| turnaround specialist endorsement program from appropriate | ||
| educator preparation programs. From among school turnaround | ||
| specialist endorsement programs proposed to the board that are | ||
| capable of satisfying the requirements prescribed by Subsection | ||
| (c), the board may select not more than three of the programs that | ||
| may be offered to principals. | ||
| (c) A school turnaround specialist endorsement program | ||
| under this section must: | ||
| (1) partner with one or more school districts that | ||
| need principals with the training and education necessary to | ||
| significantly improve teacher and student performance at one or | ||
| more campuses assigned an overall performance rating of F under | ||
| Section 39.054; | ||
| (2) have appropriately qualified faculty to: | ||
| (A) conduct a campus leadership-needs analysis; | ||
| (B) develop and provide the training and course | ||
| work required by rules proposed under this section; and | ||
| (C) provide necessary support to program | ||
| candidates; | ||
| (3) establish a selective admissions process to ensure | ||
| that each principal admitted to the program: | ||
| (A) possesses a significant knowledge of | ||
| educational organizations, educational instruction, and teacher | ||
| professional development; | ||
| (B) demonstrates the ability to develop and | ||
| implement campus-based systems that result in increased capacity | ||
| for improving student learning; and | ||
| (C) demonstrates the attributes of principals | ||
| who have significantly improved teacher and student performance at | ||
| underperforming campuses; | ||
| (4) offer a full-time internship that continues for at | ||
| least one semester and provides meaningful interaction with the | ||
| central administrative office of a school district; and | ||
| (5) collaborate with school districts to provide | ||
| program participants who complete the program continued support for | ||
| at least two years after the participants' initial assignment to a | ||
| campus. | ||
| (d) To be eligible for admission to a school turnaround | ||
| specialist endorsement program under this section, a principal | ||
| must: | ||
| (1) hold a principal certificate; | ||
| (2) have served as a principal or assistant principal | ||
| for at least three school years before applying to the program; | ||
| (3) demonstrate significant knowledge of educational | ||
| organizations, educational instruction, and teacher professional | ||
| development; | ||
| (4) demonstrate the attributes of principals who have | ||
| significantly improved teacher and student performance at | ||
| underperforming campuses; and | ||
| (5) provide evidence of the ability to develop and | ||
| implement campus-based systems that result in increased capacity | ||
| for improving student learning. | ||
| (e) The board shall periodically evaluate school turnaround | ||
| specialist endorsement programs selected under this section. For | ||
| purposes of evaluating the programs, the board shall require each | ||
| program to submit data, as determined appropriate by the board, for | ||
| each year and at each five-year interval. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Not later than January 1, 2022, the State | ||
| Board for Educator Certification shall propose rules relating to | ||
| the school turnaround specialist endorsement to the school | ||
| principal certificate as provided by Section 21.0461, Education | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| (b) Not later than March 1, 2022, the State Board for | ||
| Educator Certification shall solicit proposals for a school | ||
| turnaround specialist endorsement program as provided by Section | ||
| 21.0461, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2021. | ||
