Bill Text: TX SB312 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a required report made to a public school student, parent, and teacher regarding the student's performance on certain state-adopted or state-developed assessment instruments.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-02 - Referred to Education [SB312 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB312-Introduced.html
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| By: Seliger | S.B. No. 312 | |
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| relating to a required report made to a public school student, | ||
| parent, and teacher regarding the student's performance on certain | ||
| state-adopted or state-developed assessment instruments. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.0239 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.0239. REQUIRED REPORT FOR CERTAIN ASSESSMENTS. (a) | ||
| Following the administration of an assessment instrument adopted or | ||
| developed under Section 39.023(a), the agency shall provide a | ||
| detailed report of a student's performance on the assessment | ||
| instrument to: | ||
| (1) the student; | ||
| (2) the student's parent or other person standing in | ||
| parental relationship; and | ||
| (3) the student's teachers. | ||
| (b) The report provided under Subsection (a) must include an | ||
| analysis of a student's performance on each assessed standard or | ||
| skill in the essential knowledge and skills of the subject for which | ||
| the assessment instrument was administered. The analysis must | ||
| indicate whether the student mastered each standard or skill | ||
| assessed in the assessment instrument. | ||
| (c) The analysis under Subsection (b) must demonstrate both | ||
| individual assessment results and assessment results aggregated | ||
| across classes, campuses, and districts. | ||
| (d) The commissioner may contract with a third party to | ||
| fulfill the requirements of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
