Bill Text: TX HB2104 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to charter schools and accurately accounting for workforce development statistics.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-09 - Left pending in committee [HB2104 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2104-Introduced.html
By: Dutton | H.B. No. 2104 |
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relating to charter schools and accurately accounting for workforce | ||
development statistics. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 12, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
new Sections 12.141 and 12.142, to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 12.141. DROP OUT PREVENTION AND RECOVERY OPEN | ||
ENROLLMENT CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLS. (a) To better serve the needs of | ||
at-risk students, improve the quality of the available workforce, | ||
and increase student success rates in obtaining and maintaining | ||
employment, a school that otherwise qualifies as an open enrollment | ||
charter school may apply in a form approved by the commissioner to | ||
be assessed as an open enrollment charter high school. | ||
(b) A compliant application by an open enrollment charter | ||
school to be assessed as a Drop Out Prevention and Recovery Charter | ||
High School shall be granted if: | ||
(1) Fifty percent (50%) or more of its students are 17 | ||
years of age or older; and | ||
(2) Seventy-five percent (75%) or more of its students | ||
are considered to be at risk of dropping out of school, as defined | ||
by Section 29.081. | ||
Sec. 12.142. ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF DROP OUT | ||
PREVENTION AND RECOVERY OPEN ENROLLMENT CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLS. (a) | ||
Provisions of this Title and other laws made applicable to open | ||
enrollment charter schools by Section 12.104 apply to a Drop Out | ||
Prevention and Recovery Open Enrollment Charter High School, except | ||
as follows: | ||
(1) A student who enrolls at a Drop Out Prevention and | ||
Recovery Open Enrollment Charter High School shall not be included | ||
in calculating the drop out or completion rates for the school | ||
unless the student remains enrolled for at least twenty (20) school | ||
days. | ||
(2) Solely for the purpose of assessing the completion | ||
rate for the students, and measuring the success, of a Drop Out | ||
Prevention and Recovery Open Enrollment Charter High School in | ||
educating older students otherwise excluded from the calculation of | ||
the diploma completion rate under NCES standards, a Drop Out | ||
Prevention and Recovery Open Enrollment Charter High School may | ||
request that the commissioner include all students who graduate | ||
from a Drop Out Prevention and Recovery Open Enrollment Charter | ||
High School in the calculation of the school's completion rate. The | ||
calculation methodology under this Section shall be as follows: | ||
Graduates + GED Recipients + Continuers | ||
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Graduates + GED Recipients + Continuers + Dropouts | ||
(3) The commissioner may adopt a set of indicators to | ||
measure the quality of learning and student achievement at a Drop | ||
Out Prevention and Recovery Open Enrollment Charter High School. | ||
(b) A Drop Out Prevention and Recovery Open Enrollment | ||
Charter High School shall be responsible for reporting the | ||
information required to perform the assessments described by this | ||
Section, performing the calculation specified in Section | ||
12.142(a)(b), and all reasonable costs incurred by the commission | ||
in verifying the information and calculation. | ||
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 of 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. |