Bill Text: TX HB480 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to open-enrollment charter schools that provide only prekindergarten programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-28 - Left pending in committee [HB480 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB480-Introduced.html
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By: Burkett | H.B. No. 480 |
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relating to open-enrollment charter schools that provide only | ||
prekindergarten programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 12.1015 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 12.1015. AUTHORIZATION FOR GRANT OF CHARTERS FOR | ||
SCHOOLS PROVIDING ONLY PREKINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS. (a) The | ||
commissioner may grant under Section 12.101 a charter on the | ||
application of an eligible entity for an open-enrollment charter | ||
school intended to provide only prekindergarten programs. | ||
(b) A charter application for an open-enrollment charter | ||
school described by Subsection (a) may not be denied, and the | ||
charter of an open-enrollment charter school described by | ||
Subsection (a) may not be revoked or denied renewal, on the basis | ||
that the school does not provide instruction to students at any | ||
grade level at which students are assessed under Subchapter B, | ||
Chapter 39. | ||
(c) The limit on the number of charters for open-enrollment | ||
charter schools imposed by Section 12.101 does not apply to a | ||
charter granted under this section. | ||
(d) For purposes of the applicability of state and federal | ||
law, an open-enrollment charter school described by Subsection (a) | ||
is considered the same as any other school for which a charter is | ||
granted under Section 12.101. | ||
(e) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
administer this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 12.118(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) An evaluation under this section must include | ||
consideration of the following items before implementing the | ||
charter and after implementing the charter: | ||
(1) if applicable, students' scores on assessment | ||
instruments administered under Subchapter B, Chapter 39; | ||
(2) student attendance; | ||
(3) students' grades; | ||
(4) incidents involving student discipline; | ||
(5) socioeconomic data on students' families; | ||
(6) parents' satisfaction with their children's | ||
schools; and | ||
(7) students' satisfaction with their schools. | ||
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. |