Bill Text: TX HB2782 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2782 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the method used in rating public school districts and campuses for accountability purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-22 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB2782 Detail]

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	85R8043 PAM-D

	By: Wilson	H.B. No. 2782



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the method used in rating public school districts and
	campuses for accountability purposes.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 39.054, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
	(b) For purposes of assigning school districts and campuses
	an overall and a domain performance rating under Subsection (a),
	the commissioner shall ensure that the method used to evaluate
	performance:
	(1) is not implemented in a manner that provides for a
	specific designated distribution of ratings to districts and
	campuses under which a designated percentage of districts or
	campuses receive an A rating or an F rating; and
	(2) is implemented in a manner that provides the
	mathematical possibility that all districts and campuses receive an
	A rating.
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
	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, 2017.