Bill Text: TX HB1983 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the assessment of public school students and the provision of accelerated instruction to students who fail to achieve satisfactory performance on certain assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-08 - Referred to Public Education [HB1983 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1983-Introduced.html
88R1815 MLH-F | ||
By: Vasut | H.B. No. 1983 |
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relating to the assessment of public school students and the | ||
provision of accelerated instruction to students who fail to | ||
achieve satisfactory performance on certain assessment | ||
instruments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 28.0211(a), (a-1), (a-5), (c), (f-4), | ||
(i), and (n), Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district shall establish an accelerated | ||
learning committee described by Subsection (c) for each student who | ||
for a second time does not perform satisfactorily on: | ||
(1) the third grade mathematics or reading assessment | ||
instrument under Section 39.023; | ||
(2) the fifth grade mathematics or reading assessment | ||
instrument under Section 39.023; or | ||
(3) the eighth grade mathematics or reading assessment | ||
instrument under Section 39.023. | ||
(a-1) If [ |
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satisfactorily on an assessment instrument administered under | ||
Section 39.023(a) in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, or | ||
eighth grade, the school district in which the student attends | ||
school shall provide to the student one additional opportunity to | ||
take the assessment instrument before the beginning of the | ||
subsequent school year. If the student fails to perform | ||
satisfactorily on the assessment instrument a second time, the | ||
school district shall provide to the student accelerated | ||
instruction in the applicable subject area during the subsequent | ||
summer or school year and either: | ||
(1) allow the student to be assigned a classroom | ||
teacher who is certified as a master, exemplary, or recognized | ||
teacher under Section 21.3521 for the subsequent school year in the | ||
applicable subject area; or | ||
(2) provide the student supplemental instruction | ||
under Subsection (a-4). | ||
(a-5) Each school district shall establish a process | ||
allowing for the parent or guardian of a student who fails to | ||
perform satisfactorily on an assessment instrument specified under | ||
Subsection (a) a second time to make a request for district | ||
consideration that the student be assigned to a particular | ||
classroom teacher in the applicable subject area for the subsequent | ||
school year, if more than one classroom teacher is available. | ||
(c) After a student fails to perform satisfactorily on an | ||
assessment instrument specified under Subsection (a) a second time, | ||
the school district in which the student attends school shall | ||
establish an accelerated learning committee for the student [ |
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composed of the principal or the principal's designee, the | ||
student's parent or guardian, and the teacher of the subject of an | ||
assessment instrument on which the student failed to perform | ||
satisfactorily. The district shall notify the parent or guardian | ||
of the time and place for convening the accelerated learning | ||
committee and the purpose of the committee. | ||
(f-4) If a student who fails to perform satisfactorily on an | ||
assessment instrument specified under Subsection (a) a second time | ||
fails in the subsequent school year to perform satisfactorily on an | ||
assessment instrument in the same subject, the superintendent of | ||
the district, or the superintendent's designee, shall meet with the | ||
student's accelerated learning committee to: | ||
(1) identify the reason the student did not perform | ||
satisfactorily; and | ||
(2) determine, in order to ensure the student performs | ||
satisfactorily on the assessment instrument at the next | ||
administration of the assessment instrument, whether: | ||
(A) the educational plan developed for the | ||
student under Subsection (f) must be modified to provide the | ||
necessary accelerated instruction for that student; and | ||
(B) any additional resources are required for | ||
that student. | ||
(i) The admission, review, and dismissal committee of a | ||
student who participates in a district's special education program | ||
under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, and who does not perform | ||
satisfactorily on an assessment instrument specified under | ||
Subsection (a) and administered under Section 39.023(a) or (b) a | ||
second time must meet to determine the manner in which the student | ||
will participate in an accelerated instruction program under this | ||
section. | ||
(n) Except as provided by Subsection (n-1), a student who | ||
fails to perform satisfactorily on an assessment instrument | ||
specified under Subsection (a) a second time and is promoted to the | ||
next grade level must be assigned in the subsequent school year in | ||
each subject in which the student failed to perform satisfactorily | ||
on an assessment instrument specified under Subsection (a) a second | ||
time to an appropriately certified teacher who meets all state and | ||
federal qualifications to teach that subject and grade. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
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, 2023. |