Bill Text: TX HB172 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the consideration of the performance of students of limited English proficiency on state assessment instruments and inclusion of related information in campus report cards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-14 - Referred to Public Education [HB172 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB172-Introduced.html
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By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 172 |
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relating to the consideration of the performance of students of | ||
limited English proficiency on state assessment instruments and | ||
inclusion of related information in campus report cards. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.027(a-2), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a-2) Unless a student is enrolled in a school in the United | ||
States for a period of at least 120 [ |
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year, the student may not be considered to be enrolled in a school | ||
in the United States for that year for the purpose of determining a | ||
number of years under Subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.054, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (d) and (d-1) to read as follows: | ||
(d) Except as provided by Subsection (d-1), in evaluating | ||
performance under Subsection (c), the commissioner may not lower a | ||
performance rating for purposes of this chapter based on | ||
unsatisfactory performance on an assessment instrument | ||
administered under Section 39.023 to a student for a period of two | ||
years after the student's initial enrollment in a school in the | ||
United States if the student is a student of limited English | ||
proficiency, as defined by Section 29.052. This subsection does | ||
not apply to a performance rating for purposes of: | ||
(1) compliance monitoring under Section 7.028; or | ||
(2) public school accountability under federal law. | ||
(d-1) Subsection (d) does not apply if the assessment | ||
instrument administered to a student of limited English proficiency | ||
is in the student's native language. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 39.305(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The report card shall include the following | ||
information: | ||
(1) where applicable, the achievement indicators | ||
described by Section 39.053(c) and the reporting indicators | ||
described by Sections 39.301(c)(1) through (5); | ||
(2) average class size by grade level and subject; | ||
(3) the administrative and instructional costs per | ||
student, computed in a manner consistent with Section 44.0071; | ||
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(4) the district's instructional expenditures ratio | ||
and instructional employees ratio computed under Section 44.0071, | ||
and the statewide average of those ratios, as determined by the | ||
commissioner; and | ||
(5) the performance of students of limited English | ||
proficiency, as defined by Section 29.052, on assessment | ||
instruments administered under Section 39.023. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 39.027(a-2), Education Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, and Section 39.054(d), Education Code, as added by this | ||
Act, apply to a student regardless of the date on which the student | ||
initially enrolled in a school in the United States. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |