Bill Text: TX HB3358 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an open-enrollment charter high school designed to prevent students from dropping out of school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Referred to Public Education [HB3358 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3358-Introduced.html
83R12726 CAE-F | ||
By: Dutton | H.B. No. 3358 |
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relating to an open-enrollment charter high school designed to | ||
prevent students from dropping out of school. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 12, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subchapter D-1 to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER D-1. DROPOUT PREVENTION AND RECOVERY OPEN-ENROLLMENT | ||
CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL | ||
Sec. 12.141. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "charter high | ||
school" means a dropout prevention and recovery open-enrollment | ||
charter high school. | ||
Sec. 12.142. CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL. (a) To 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 qualifies as an | ||
open-enrollment charter school under Subchapter D may apply to the | ||
commissioner to be designated a dropout prevention and recovery | ||
open-enrollment charter high school and be made subject to modified | ||
accountability system requirements as provided by this subchapter. | ||
The commissioner shall adopt a form to be used for an application | ||
under this section. | ||
(b) An application by an open-enrollment charter school to | ||
be designated a charter high school as provided by this subchapter | ||
shall be approved if: | ||
(1) 50 percent or more of the charter school's students | ||
are 17 years of age or older; and | ||
(2) 75 percent or more of the charter school's students | ||
are considered to be at risk of dropping out of school as provided | ||
by Section 29.081. | ||
Sec. 12.143. ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF CHARTER HIGH | ||
SCHOOL. (a) Provisions of this title and other laws applicable to | ||
open-enrollment charter schools under Section 12.104 apply to a | ||
charter high school, except a student who enrolls at a charter high | ||
school is not included in calculating the dropout or completion | ||
rates for the school unless the student remains enrolled for at | ||
least 20 school days. | ||
(b) In assessing the completion rate for students and | ||
measuring the success of a charter high school in educating older | ||
students otherwise excluded from the calculation of the completion | ||
rate under guidelines of the National Center for Education | ||
Statistics of the United States Department of Education, a charter | ||
high school may request that the commissioner include all students | ||
who graduate from the charter high school in the calculation of the | ||
school's completion rate. If requested, the charter high school's | ||
completion rate shall be calculated by dividing the sum of | ||
graduates, high school equivalency certificate recipients, and | ||
students continuing to attend the school by the sum of graduates, | ||
high school equivalency certificate recipients, students | ||
continuing to attend the school, and former students who are | ||
dropouts. | ||
(c) The commissioner may adopt a set of indicators to | ||
measure the quality of learning and student achievement at a | ||
charter high school. | ||
(d) A charter high school is responsible for reporting | ||
information required by the commissioner under this section, | ||
performing the calculation specified in Subsection (b), and | ||
covering all reasonable costs incurred by the commissioner in | ||
verifying the required information and calculation. | ||
Sec. 12.144. RULES. The commissioner may adopt rules | ||
necessary to implement this subchapter. | ||
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. |