Bill Text: TX SB2107 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to evaluating the performance of dropout recovery schools for purposes of the public school accountability system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-09 - Left pending in committee [SB2107 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2107-Introduced.html
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By: Lucio | S.B. No. 2107 |
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relating to evaluating the performance of dropout recovery schools | ||
for purposes of the public school accountability system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.0548, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a) and (d) and adding Subsections (a-1), (e), | ||
(f), (g), and (h) to read as follows: | ||
(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 [ |
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is registered under alternative education accountability | ||
procedures adopted by the commissioner. | ||
(a-1) For purposes of assigning performance ratings under | ||
Section 39.054, the commissioner shall evaluate a dropout recovery | ||
school under alternative education accountability procedures | ||
adopted by the commissioner. | ||
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of evaluating a dropout recovery school under the alternative | ||
education accountability procedures adopted by the commissioner | ||
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any retake of an assessment instrument administered to a student in | ||
the school year evaluated may be considered in assigning | ||
performance ratings for the school under Section 39.054. | ||
(e) For purposes of evaluating performance of a dropout | ||
recovery school under the student achievement domain under Section | ||
39.053(c)(1), the commissioner may consider for purposes of | ||
assigning a domain performance rating under Section 39.054 student | ||
performance based only on the "approaches grade level" performance | ||
standard. Any evaluation of student performance based on a higher | ||
performance standard may not be considered to negatively affect the | ||
domain performance rating or a performance target score of the | ||
school. | ||
(f) For purposes of evaluating performance of a dropout | ||
recovery school under the school progress domain under Section | ||
39.053(c)(2), the commissioner may award credit for academic growth | ||
for purposes of assigning a domain performance rating under Section | ||
39.054 based only on a student reaching the "approaches grade | ||
level" performance standard. Any evaluation of student performance | ||
based on reaching a higher academic growth performance standard may | ||
not be considered to negatively affect the amount of credit awarded | ||
to the school or the domain performance rating or a performance | ||
target score of the school. | ||
(g) For purposes of assigning an overall performance rating | ||
for a dropout recovery school under Section 39.054, the | ||
commissioner shall consider only the school's domain performance | ||
ratings under the student achievement domain under Section | ||
39.053(c)(1) and the school progress domain under Section | ||
39.053(c)(2). | ||
(h) The performance of a dropout recovery school under the | ||
closing the gaps domain under Section 39.053(c)(3) may be used for | ||
reporting purposes only. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
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, 2019. |