Bill Text: TX HB1786 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to including community and student engagement performance in rating school districts and campuses under the public school accountability system.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-04 - Referred to Public Education [HB1786 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1786-Introduced.html
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| By: Farney | H.B. No. 1786 | |
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| relating to including community and student engagement performance | ||
| in rating school districts and campuses under the public school | ||
| accountability system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.0541 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.0541. PERFORMANCE REGARDING COMMUNITY AND STUDENT | ||
| ENGAGEMENT. (a) In assigning the district or campus a performance | ||
| rating under Section 39.054, the commissioner, in addition to | ||
| considering performance on student achievement indicators under | ||
| Section 39.053(c), shall consider whether a school district or | ||
| campus has established and supports programs with demonstrated | ||
| success in increasing parental involvement, student engagement, | ||
| and high school completion. | ||
| (b) In adopting rules to evaluate district and campus | ||
| performance under Section 39.054(a), the commissioner shall | ||
| develop a method for evaluating the performance of each district | ||
| and campus that has established programs described by Subsection | ||
| (a) and the performance of the programs in each of those districts | ||
| and campuses. | ||
| (c) For purposes of this section, a program described by | ||
| Subsection (a) includes: | ||
| (1) programs that establish a partnership between | ||
| schools and business and other organizations in school communities | ||
| to share resources; | ||
| (2) mentoring programs that foster student academic | ||
| development; | ||
| (3) programs that promote financial investment from | ||
| individuals in the community and business and other community | ||
| organizations to provide schools with opportunities to establish | ||
| and sustain an environment of educational excellence; and | ||
| (4) extracurricular programs. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
