Bill Text: TX HB3452 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to evaluating the performance of dropout recovery schools for purposes of the public school accountability system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3452 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3452-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Dutton | H.B. No. 3452 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3452: | |||
By: Allen | C.S.H.B. No. 3452 |
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relating to evaluating the performance of dropout recovery schools | ||
for purposes of the public school accountability system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.0548, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a) and (d) and adding Subsections (a-1), (e), | ||
and (f) to read as follows: | ||
(a) For purposes of evaluating performance under Section | ||
39.053(c), the commissioner shall designate as a dropout recovery | ||
school a school district or an open-enrollment charter school or a | ||
campus of a district or of an open-enrollment charter school: | ||
(1) that serves students in grades 9 through 12 and has | ||
an enrollment of which at least 50 percent of the students are 17 | ||
years of age or older as of September 1 of the school year as | ||
reported for the fall semester Public Education Information | ||
Management System (PEIMS) submission; and | ||
(2) that [ |
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is registered under alternative education accountability | ||
procedures adopted by the commissioner. | ||
(a-1) For purposes of assigning performance ratings under | ||
Section 39.054, the commissioner shall evaluate a dropout recovery | ||
school under alternative education accountability procedures | ||
adopted by the commissioner. | ||
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of evaluating a dropout recovery school under the alternative | ||
education accountability procedures adopted by the commissioner | ||
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any retake of an assessment instrument administered to a student in | ||
the school year evaluated may be considered in assigning | ||
performance ratings for the school under Section 39.054. | ||
(e) For purposes of evaluating performance of a dropout | ||
recovery school under the alternative education accountability | ||
procedures adopted by the commissioner, the commissioner shall | ||
adopt performance targets for the student achievement domain under | ||
Section 39.053(c)(1) and the school progress domain under Section | ||
39.053(c)(2) that are based on the average performance of school | ||
districts and campuses registered under the alternative education | ||
accountability procedures for the preceding school year for those | ||
respective domains. | ||
(f) For purposes of assigning an overall performance rating | ||
for a dropout recovery school under Section 39.054, the | ||
commissioner shall attribute not more than 10 percent of that | ||
rating to the closing the gaps domain under Section 39.053(c)(3). | ||
SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect on any date not later | ||
than September 1, 2021, on which the commissioner of education: | ||
(1) obtains any necessary waiver from the application | ||
of federal law or regulation conflicting with Section 39.0548, | ||
Education Code, as amended by this Act; or | ||
(2) receives written notification from the United | ||
States Department of Education that a waiver is not required. | ||
(b) This Act applies beginning with the first school year | ||
that begins after the date on which this Act takes effect under | ||
Subsection (a) of this section. | ||
(c) If the commissioner of education obtains any necessary | ||
waiver or receives written notification as described by Subsection | ||
(a) of this section, the commissioner shall certify that the | ||
commissioner has obtained the waiver or received notification that | ||
a waiver is not required, as applicable, and shall publish notice of | ||
that fact in the Texas Register as soon as practicable after | ||
obtaining the waiver or receiving notification. |