Bill Text: TX HB1468 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a local remote learning program operated by a public school.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 13-6)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-30 - Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported [HB1468 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1468-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a local remote learning program operated by a public school.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 13-6)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-30 - Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported [HB1468 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1468-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Bell of Kaufman, Huberty, Toth, | H.B. No. 1468 | ||
González of El Paso, Dutton, et al. | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1468: | |||
By: Bell of Kaufman | C.S.H.B. No. 1468 |
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relating to a local remote learning program offered by a public | ||
school. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 25.092, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows: | ||
(a-3) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
may adopt a policy to exempt students from the requirements of this | ||
section for one or more courses identified in the policy that are | ||
offered under a local remote learning program under Section | ||
29.9091. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.9091 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.9091. LOCAL REMOTE LEARNING PROGRAM. (a) In this | ||
section, "synchronous instruction" means instruction provided in a | ||
manner in which the instructor and the student are engaged at the | ||
same time with the ability to interact in real time. | ||
(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
establish a local remote learning program to offer synchronous | ||
virtual courses outside the state virtual school network under | ||
Chapter 30A to eligible students. | ||
(c) A virtual course offered under a local remote learning | ||
program: | ||
(1) must be provided through synchronous instruction; | ||
and | ||
(2) may be provided in combination with in-person | ||
instruction as appropriate to meet the needs of individual | ||
students. | ||
(d) A student is eligible to enroll in a virtual course | ||
offered under a local remote learning program if the student: | ||
(1) was enrolled in a public school in this state in | ||
the preceding school year; | ||
(2) is enrolled in a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school in grade level three or above; | ||
(3) has reasonable access to in-person services for | ||
the course at a district or school facility; and | ||
(4) meets any additional criteria, including minimum | ||
academic standards, established by the school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school in which the student is enrolled. | ||
(e) A school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
that offers a local remote learning program: | ||
(1) shall periodically assess the performance of | ||
students enrolled in virtual courses under the program; and | ||
(2) may remove a student from virtual courses under | ||
the program and return the student to in-person instruction if the | ||
district or school determines that the student does not meet the | ||
criteria described by Subsection (d). | ||
(f) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
contract with another school district or open-enrollment charter | ||
school to allow a student enrolled in the sending district or school | ||
to enroll in virtual courses offered under the local remote | ||
learning program of the receiving district or school. A student | ||
enrolled in virtual courses under an agreement described by this | ||
subsection is considered enrolled in the sending district or school | ||
for purposes of average daily attendance and accountability under | ||
Chapters 39 and 39A. | ||
(g) An assessment instrument administered under Section | ||
39.023 or 39.025 to a student enrolled in a virtual course offered | ||
under a local remote learning program shall be administered to the | ||
student in the same manner in which the assessment instrument is | ||
administered to other school district or open-enrollment charter | ||
school students. | ||
(h) If a school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
offers virtual courses under a local remote learning program for | ||
students receiving special education services, the courses must | ||
meet the needs of a participating student in a manner consistent | ||
with Subchapter A of this chapter and with federal law, including | ||
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Section | ||
1400 et seq.) and Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. | ||
Section 794). | ||
(i) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
not require a teacher to provide both virtual instruction and | ||
in-person instruction for a course during the same class period. | ||
(j) A student enrolled in a virtual course offered under a | ||
local remote learning program may participate in an extracurricular | ||
activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school in which the student is enrolled or | ||
by the University Interscholastic League in the same manner as | ||
other district or school students. | ||
(k) A student enrolled in a virtual course offered under a | ||
local remote learning program shall be counted toward the school | ||
district's or open-enrollment charter school's average daily | ||
attendance in the same manner as other district or school students. | ||
The commissioner shall adopt rules providing for a method of taking | ||
attendance, once each school day, for students enrolled in a | ||
virtual course offered under a local remote learning program. | ||
(l) Chapter 30A does not apply to a virtual course offered | ||
under a local remote learning program. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 39.301(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) Indicators for reporting purposes must include: | ||
(1) the percentage of graduating students who meet the | ||
course requirements established by State Board of Education rule | ||
for: | ||
(A) the foundation high school program; | ||
(B) the distinguished level of achievement under | ||
the foundation high school program; and | ||
(C) each endorsement described by Section | ||
28.025(c-1); | ||
(2) the results of the SAT, ACT, and certified | ||
workforce training programs described by Chapter 311, Labor Code; | ||
(3) for students who have failed to perform | ||
satisfactorily, under each performance standard under Section | ||
39.0241, on an assessment instrument required under Section | ||
39.023(a) or (c), the performance of those students on subsequent | ||
assessment instruments required under those sections, aggregated | ||
by grade level and subject area; | ||
(4) for each campus, the number of students, | ||
disaggregated by major student subpopulations, that take courses | ||
under the foundation high school program and take additional | ||
courses to earn an endorsement under Section 28.025(c-1), | ||
disaggregated by type of endorsement; | ||
(5) the percentage of students, aggregated by grade | ||
level, provided accelerated instruction under Section 28.0211(c), | ||
the results of assessment instruments administered under that | ||
section, the percentage of students promoted through the grade | ||
placement committee process under Section 28.0211, the subject of | ||
the assessment instrument on which each student failed to perform | ||
satisfactorily under each performance standard under Section | ||
39.0241, and the performance of those students in the school year | ||
following that promotion on the assessment instruments required | ||
under Section 39.023; | ||
(6) the percentage of students of limited English | ||
proficiency exempted from the administration of an assessment | ||
instrument under Sections 39.027(a)(1) and (2); | ||
(7) the percentage of students in a special education | ||
program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, assessed through assessment | ||
instruments developed or adopted under Section 39.023(b); | ||
(8) the percentage of students who satisfy the college | ||
readiness measure; | ||
(9) the measure of progress toward dual language | ||
proficiency under Section 39.034(b), for students of limited | ||
English proficiency, as defined by Section 29.052; | ||
(10) the percentage of students who are not | ||
educationally disadvantaged; | ||
(11) the percentage of students who enroll and begin | ||
instruction at an institution of higher education in the school | ||
year following high school graduation; [ |
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(12) the percentage of students who successfully | ||
complete the first year of instruction at an institution of higher | ||
education without needing a developmental education course; and | ||
(13) for each school district and campus, the | ||
performance of students who spend at least half of the students' | ||
instructional time in virtual courses offered under a local remote | ||
learning program under Section 29.9091. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. 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. |