Bill Text: TX HB2106 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the implementation of student and family engagement plans by school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Public Education [HB2106 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2106-Introduced.html
88R2235 BDP-F | ||
By: Talarico | H.B. No. 2106 |
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relating to the implementation of student and family engagement | ||
plans by school districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.927 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.927. STUDENT AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT PLANS. (a) Each | ||
school district shall develop and implement a student and family | ||
engagement plan for students in each grade level from | ||
prekindergarten through grade 12 to assist the district in: | ||
(1) achieving and maintaining high levels of family | ||
involvement and positive family attitudes toward public education; | ||
(2) strengthening relationships between students, | ||
families, district administrators, and teachers; | ||
(3) creating positive outcomes by increasing positive | ||
student engagement and developing the student's sense of connection | ||
to the student's learning environment, including by ensuring that | ||
the student is: | ||
(A) actively involved in the student's academic | ||
achievement; and | ||
(B) positively motivated to attend school | ||
regularly and graduate; | ||
(4) creating opportunities for parents to engage with | ||
and be directly involved in their child's education; and | ||
(5) creating a communal campus environment that | ||
includes students, families, teachers, district staff, and | ||
community-based organizations that provide resources to students | ||
for social-emotional and academic development. | ||
(b) The student and family engagement plans must be based on | ||
student and parent engagement strategies that: | ||
(1) are evidence-based and supported by empirical | ||
research; | ||
(2) establish a system of communication, updated | ||
annually based on a district assessment of parent and communication | ||
needs, between students, families, and school districts that | ||
includes mailed, electronic, and virtual communications, such as | ||
phone calls, text messaging, virtual conferences, and e-mail; | ||
(3) provide support for students who are attending | ||
school in-person or virtually through counselors, teachers, and | ||
district staff; | ||
(4) use diagnostic tools to evaluate the emotional, | ||
behavioral, and cognitive engagement of students and communicate | ||
the results to the family of the student; | ||
(5) include regular meetings with interested persons, | ||
including community-based organizations, throughout the school | ||
year regarding the development and implementation of the engagement | ||
plans; | ||
(6) are proven to demonstrate significant positive | ||
short-term and long-term outcomes for early childhood, elementary, | ||
middle school, and high school education; | ||
(7) include programs and interventions that engage a | ||
family in supporting a student's learning at home; | ||
(8) include programming that is accessible by students | ||
and families who are bilingual or emergent bilingual; | ||
(9) are proven to demonstrate solutions that build | ||
long-lasting generational relationships between school districts | ||
and families; and | ||
(10) support virtual or remote learning by promoting | ||
digital communication and literacy and by ensuring that students | ||
have access to devices and broadband Internet. | ||
(c) Each school district shall ensure that student and | ||
family engagement plans are consistent with the public education | ||
mission and objectives described by Section 4.001 and accessible to | ||
students who are educationally disadvantaged. | ||
(d) In developing student and family engagement plans, a | ||
school district must collaborate with campus leaders, educators, | ||
teachers, families, and students at all grade levels to include in | ||
the student and family engagement plans the strategies described by | ||
Subsection (b). A school district must provide for a student at the | ||
middle or high school level to be directly involved in developing | ||
student engagement plans. | ||
(e) The agency shall offer administrative support and | ||
resources to assist school districts with developing and | ||
implementing student and family engagement plans as provided by | ||
this section. | ||
(f) Not later than the 30th instructional day following the | ||
first day of school, each school district shall post the student and | ||
family engagement plans on the district's Internet website. | ||
(g) The agency shall collaborate with other state agencies | ||
to coordinate and streamline the process for accessing information, | ||
support, and resources included in a school district's family | ||
engagement plan. | ||
(h) A parent-teacher organization or community-based | ||
organization may submit: | ||
(1) to the agency recommendations regarding the | ||
establishment of family engagement strategies; and | ||
(2) to a school district recommendations regarding the | ||
development of a student and family engagement plan. | ||
(i) The agency, in establishing family engagement | ||
strategies, or a school district, in establishing a student and | ||
family engagement plan, shall consider any recommendations | ||
submitted under Subsection (h). | ||
(j) Each school district shall review the student and family | ||
engagement plans annually and update the plans at least once every | ||
two years. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 29.934(d), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) To be designated as a resource campus, the campus must: | ||
(1) implement a targeted improvement plan as described | ||
by Chapter 39A and establish a school community partnership team; | ||
(2) adopt an accelerated campus excellence turnaround | ||
plan as provided by Section 39A.105(b) except that a classroom | ||
teacher who satisfies the requirements for demonstrated | ||
instructional effectiveness under Section 39A.105(b)(3) must also | ||
hold a current designation assigned under Section 21.3521; | ||
(3) be in a school district that has adopted an | ||
approved local optional teacher designation system under Section | ||
21.3521; | ||
(4) satisfy certain staff criteria by: | ||
(A) requiring a principal or teacher employed at | ||
the campus before the designation to apply for a position to | ||
continue at the campus; | ||
(B) employing only teachers who have at least | ||
three years of teaching experience; | ||
(C) employing at least one school counselor for | ||
every 300 students; and | ||
(D) employing at least one appropriately | ||
licensed professional to assist with the social and emotional needs | ||
of students and staff, who must be a: | ||
(i) family and community liaison; | ||
(ii) clinical social worker; | ||
(iii) specialist in school psychology; or | ||
(iv) professional counselor; | ||
(5) implement a positive behavior program as provided | ||
by Section 37.0013; | ||
(6) implement a student and family engagement plan as | ||
described by Section 29.927 [ |
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(7) develop and implement a plan to use high quality | ||
instructional materials; | ||
(8) if the campus is an elementary campus, operate the | ||
campus for a school year that qualifies for funding under Section | ||
48.0051; and | ||
(9) annually submit to the commissioner data and | ||
information required by the commissioner to assess fidelity of | ||
implementation. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 29.168, Education Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. |