Bill Text: TX SB1984 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to alternative public school accountability interventions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-19 - Referred to Education [SB1984 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1984-Introduced.html
| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 1984 | |
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| relating to alternative public school accountability | ||
| interventions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 8, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 8.063 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 8.063. REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER INTERVENTION | ||
| TEAM AND PROGRAM. (a) Each regional education service center may | ||
| create an intervention team composed of seven members as follows: | ||
| (1) the executive director of the regional education | ||
| service center; and | ||
| (2) the six superintendents employed by school | ||
| districts with the highest performance ratings in the area served | ||
| by the regional education service center. | ||
| (b) Each regional education service center intervention | ||
| team created under (a) shall develop an alternative intervention | ||
| program for districts and campuses in the area served by the | ||
| regional education service center that are subject to Chapter 39A | ||
| interventions and sanctions. | ||
| (c) Each regional education service center that has created | ||
| an intervention team and developed an alternative intervention | ||
| program shall submit a written report to the commissioner | ||
| identifying the intervention team members and the components of the | ||
| alternative intervention program. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 39A, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39A.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39A.008. OPTIONAL ALTERNATIVE INTERVENTION. (a) | ||
| Prior to the closure of a campus or the appointment of a board of | ||
| managers for a school district or campus under this chapter, the | ||
| commissioner may, in the alternative, place the campus or school | ||
| district under the oversight of a regional education service center | ||
| intervention team for the implementation of intervention measures | ||
| as provided under the program developed by the team under Section | ||
| 8.063. | ||
| (b) If the commissioner makes an election under (a) and a | ||
| campus or school district receives an unacceptable performance | ||
| rating for two consecutive school years after such election, the | ||
| commissioner shall order: | ||
| (1) appointment of a board of managers to govern the | ||
| district or campus as provided by Subchapter E; or | ||
| (2) closure of the campus. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 39A.008, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a school district that is subject to an | ||
| intervention or sanction on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| A school district subject to an intervention or sanction before the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed | ||
| immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
