Bill Text: TX HB795 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public school accountability
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-21 - Left pending in committee [HB795 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB795-Introduced.html
By: Johnson of Harris | H.B. No. 795 |
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relating to public school accountability | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.151, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) The rules under Subsection (a) must provide for the | ||
commissioner to appoint a committee to make recommendations to the | ||
commissioner on a challenge made to an agency decision relating to | ||
an academic performance rating or determination or financial | ||
accountability rating. The committee shall review the challenge | ||
regardless of the issue identified in the challenge by the school | ||
district or open-enrollment charter school. The commissioner may | ||
not appoint an agency employee as a member of the committee. | ||
(c-1) The commissioner may not limit a challenge relating to | ||
a data or calculation error or inaccuracy attributable to the | ||
school district or open-enrollment charter school, even if the | ||
challenge demonstrates the data or calculation error or inaccuracy | ||
caused the district or school to have a lower academic or financial | ||
accountability rating. If a challenge demonstrates that the data | ||
or calculation error or inaccuracy caused the district or school to | ||
have a lower academic or financial accountability rating, the | ||
commissioner shall assign the district or school the corrected | ||
rating or shall indicate that the district or school will not be | ||
rated for that school year. The commissioner may not revoke the | ||
charter of an open-enrollment charter school as provided by Section | ||
12.115(c) or allow the charter to expire as provided by Section | ||
12.1141(d) if for one of the school years considered for the | ||
commissioner's decision the school is not rated as provided by this | ||
subsection. | ||
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. |