Bill Text: TX HB3808 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to evaluating the performance, including computing dropout and completion rates, of public schools designated as dropout recovery schools.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-07 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB3808 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3808-Comm_Sub.html
83R16921 PAM-F | |||
By: Farney | H.B. No. 3808 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3808: | |||
By: J. Davis of Harris | C.S.H.B. No. 3808 |
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relating to evaluating the performance, including computing | ||
dropout and completion rates, of public schools designated as | ||
dropout recovery schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.0545 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.0545. EVALUATING DROPOUT RECOVERY SCHOOLS. (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 meets the eligibility requirements for and is | ||
registered under alternative education accountability procedures | ||
adopted by the commissioner. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 39.053(c)(2), the commissioner | ||
shall use the alternative completion rate under this subsection to | ||
determine the student achievement indicator under Section | ||
39.053(c)(2) for a dropout recovery school. The alternative | ||
completion rate shall be the ratio of the total number of students | ||
who graduate, continue attending school into the next academic | ||
year, or receive a high school equivalency certificate to the total | ||
number of students in the longitudinal cohort of students. | ||
(c) Notwithstanding Section 39.053(c)(2), in determining | ||
the performance rating under Section 39.054 of a dropout recovery | ||
school, the commissioner shall include any student described by | ||
Section 39.053(g-1) who graduates or receives a high school | ||
equivalency certificate. | ||
(d) For a dropout recovery school, only the best result from | ||
the primary administration and any retake of an assessment | ||
instrument administered to a student in the school year evaluated | ||
under the accountability procedures adopted by the commissioner may | ||
be considered in determining the performance rating of the school | ||
under Section 39.054. | ||
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. |