Bill Text: TX HB2076 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to alternative assessment of certain public school students under the public school accountability system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-09 - Left pending in committee [HB2076 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2076-Introduced.html
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By: Flynn | H.B. No. 2076 |
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relating to alternative assessment of certain public school | ||
students under the public school accountability system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.0222 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.0222. ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM. (a) The | ||
agency shall develop and implement an alternative assessment system | ||
for students in grade levels three through eight in accordance with | ||
this section. | ||
(b) A school district may apply to the commissioner for | ||
authority to assess students in grade levels three through eight | ||
under the alternative system. The commissioner shall approve a | ||
district's application unless exceptional circumstances indicate | ||
that approval for the specific district is unwarranted. | ||
(c) Under the alternative system, the assessment | ||
instruments required by Sections 39.023(a), (b), and (l) shall be | ||
used to assess a student's progress over the course of a school | ||
year. To achieve that purpose, a school district that obtains | ||
approval under Subsection (b) of this section shall administer the | ||
assessment instruments to students at the beginning of the school | ||
year and at the end of the school year. | ||
(d) For purposes of public school accountability under this | ||
chapter, the performance of a school district participating in the | ||
alternative system shall be determined on the basis of a student's | ||
progress during the school year. | ||
(e) This section does not affect the applicability of | ||
Section 28.0211 to students enrolled in a school district | ||
participating in an alternative system. | ||
(f) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
implement this section. | ||
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. |