Bill Text: TX SB346 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the curriculum that must be provided by a disciplinary alternative education program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-20 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB346 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB346-Engrossed.html
By: Gallegos | S.B. No. 346 |
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relating to the curriculum that must be provided by a disciplinary | ||
alternative education program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (l), Section 37.008, | ||
Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Each school district shall provide a disciplinary | ||
alternative education program that: | ||
(1) is provided in a setting other than a student's | ||
regular classroom; | ||
(2) is located on or off of a regular school campus; | ||
(3) provides for the students who are assigned to the | ||
disciplinary alternative education program to be separated from | ||
students who are not assigned to the program; | ||
(4) focuses on English language arts, mathematics, | ||
science, history, and self-discipline; | ||
(5) provides for students' educational and behavioral | ||
needs; | ||
(6) provides supervision and counseling; | ||
(7) employs only teachers who meet all certification | ||
requirements established under Subchapter B, Chapter 21; [ |
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(8) provides not less than the minimum amount of | ||
instructional time per day required by Section 25.082(a); and | ||
(9) provides for students who are assigned to the | ||
disciplinary alternative education program for one semester or | ||
more: | ||
(A) structured courses in English language arts, | ||
mathematics, science, history, and self-discipline that are | ||
equivalent in content and rigor to courses in those subjects as | ||
provided in the regular classroom setting; and | ||
(B) an established curriculum for each grade | ||
level that provides students an opportunity to achieve promotion to | ||
the next grade level or to graduate from high school on the same | ||
schedule as students in the regular classroom setting. | ||
(l) A school district is required to provide in the | ||
district's disciplinary alternative education program a course | ||
necessary to fulfill a student's high school graduation | ||
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district shall offer a student removed to a disciplinary | ||
alternative education program an opportunity to complete | ||
coursework before the beginning of the next school year. The school | ||
district may provide the student an opportunity to complete | ||
coursework through any method available, including a | ||
correspondence course, distance learning, or summer school. The | ||
district may not charge the student for a course provided under this | ||
subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
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, 2011. |