Bill Text: TX SB176 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Texas School Accountability Dashboard.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-27 - Referred to Education [SB176 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB176-Introduced.html
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| By: Seliger | S.B. No. 176 | |
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| relating to the Texas School Accountability Dashboard. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.309, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (b) The commissioner shall adopt, for use on the Texas | ||
| School Accountability Dashboard, a performance index in each of the | ||
| following areas: | ||
| (1) student achievement, using measures correlated | ||
| with academic success, including: | ||
| (A) assessment program performance in grades 3 | ||
| through 8; | ||
| (B) end-of-course exams, including alternative | ||
| assessments under Section 39.023; and | ||
| (C) student participation in the University | ||
| Interscholastic League; | ||
| (2) student progress, using measures that indicate | ||
| academic growth, including student progress under the assessment | ||
| program in grades 3 through 8 and end-of-course exams, | ||
| disaggregated by: | ||
| (A) race; | ||
| (B) ethnicity; and | ||
| (C) populations served by special programs, | ||
| including special education, bilingual education, and special | ||
| language programs; | ||
| (3) closing performance gaps, using measures that | ||
| indicate achievement gaps, including growth in student | ||
| achievement, disaggregated by socioeconomic status, race, and | ||
| ethnicity, under the assessment program in grades 3 through 8 and | ||
| end-of-course exams compared to the same subgroup for the prior | ||
| year; and | ||
| (4) postsecondary readiness, using measures that | ||
| indicate college and career readiness, including: | ||
| (A) high school graduation rates; | ||
| (B) the number of career and technical | ||
| certifications awarded; | ||
| (C) the total number of college semester credit | ||
| hours earned; and | ||
| (D) the percentage of students that have: | ||
| (i) satisfied the Texas Success Initiative | ||
| (TSI) college readiness benchmarks prescribed by the Texas Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board under Section 51.3062(f) on any | ||
| assessment instrument designated by the coordinating board under | ||
| Section 51.3062(c) or qualified for an exemption as described by | ||
| Section 51.3062(p), (q), or (q-1); or | ||
| (ii) satisfied ACT's College Readiness | ||
| Benchmarks on the ACT assessment applicable to the applicant or | ||
| earned on the SAT assessment a score of at least 1,500 out of 2,400 | ||
| or the equivalent. | ||
| (c) The Texas School Accountability Dashboard developed | ||
| under Subsection (a) shall be updated annually not later than | ||
| September 1 and must include: | ||
| (1) performance information for each school district | ||
| and campus in areas specified by Subsection (b) and must allow for | ||
| comparison between districts and campuses in each of the areas; | ||
| (2) a comparison of the number of students enrolled in | ||
| each school district, including: | ||
| (A) the percentage of students of limited English | ||
| proficiency, as defined by Section 29.052; | ||
| (B) the percentage of students who are unschooled | ||
| asylees or refugees, as defined by Section 39.027(a-1); | ||
| (C) the percentage of students who are | ||
| educationally disadvantaged; and | ||
| (D) the percentage of students with | ||
| disabilities; | ||
| (3) a comparison of performance information for each | ||
| district and campus disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and | ||
| populations served by special programs, including special | ||
| education, bilingual education, and special language programs; and | ||
| (4) a comparison of performance information by subject | ||
| area. | ||
| (d) In this section, "assessment program" means the | ||
| statewide assessment program created under this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Education Agency shall complete the | ||
| implementation of the Texas School Accountability Dashboard as | ||
| required under Section 39.309(a), Education Code, not later than | ||
| ________________. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
