Bill Text: TX HB2782 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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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]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2782-Introduced.html
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]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2782-Introduced.html
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By: Wilson | H.B. No. 2782 |
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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. |