Bill Text: TX SB43 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to consideration of school district disciplinary placement information in evaluating district performance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-23 - Left pending in committee [SB43 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB43-Introduced.html
83R1586 CAS-F | ||
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 43 |
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relating to consideration of school district disciplinary | ||
placement information in evaluating district performance. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.301(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) Indicators for reporting purposes must include: | ||
(1) the percentage of graduating students who meet the | ||
course requirements established by State Board of Education rule | ||
for the minimum high school program, the recommended high school | ||
program, and the advanced high school program; | ||
(2) the results of the SAT, ACT, articulated | ||
postsecondary degree programs described by Section 61.852, and | ||
certified workforce training programs described by Chapter 311, | ||
Labor Code; | ||
(3) for students who have failed to perform | ||
satisfactorily, under each performance standard under Section | ||
39.0241, on an assessment instrument required under Section | ||
39.023(a) or (c), the performance of those students on subsequent | ||
assessment instruments required under those sections, aggregated | ||
by grade level and subject area; | ||
(4) for each campus, the number of students, | ||
disaggregated by major student subpopulations, that agree under | ||
Section 28.025(b) to take courses under the minimum high school | ||
program; | ||
(5) the percentage of students, aggregated by grade | ||
level, provided accelerated instruction under Section 28.0211(c), | ||
the results of assessment instruments administered under that | ||
section, the percentage of students promoted through the grade | ||
placement committee process under Section 28.0211, the subject of | ||
the assessment instrument on which each student failed to perform | ||
satisfactorily under each performance standard under Section | ||
39.0241, and the performance of those students in the school year | ||
following that promotion on the assessment instruments required | ||
under Section 39.023; | ||
(6) the percentage of students of limited English | ||
proficiency exempted from the administration of an assessment | ||
instrument under Sections 39.027(a)(1) and (2); | ||
(7) the percentage of students in a special education | ||
program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, assessed through assessment | ||
instruments developed or adopted under Section 39.023(b); | ||
(8) the percentage of students who satisfy the college | ||
readiness measure; | ||
(9) the measure of progress toward dual language | ||
proficiency under Section 39.034(b), for students of limited | ||
English proficiency, as defined by Section 29.052; | ||
(10) the percentage of students who are not | ||
educationally disadvantaged; | ||
(11) the percentage of students who enroll and begin | ||
instruction at an institution of higher education in the school | ||
year following high school graduation; [ |
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(12) the percentage of students who successfully | ||
complete the first year of instruction at an institution of higher | ||
education without needing a developmental education course; and | ||
(13) the percentage of students subject to each of the | ||
following actions, disaggregated by whether the action was | ||
discretionary or mandatory and by status as a student in a special | ||
education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29: | ||
(A) placement in an in-school suspension | ||
setting; | ||
(B) suspension from school; | ||
(C) placement in a disciplinary alternative | ||
education program; | ||
(D) expulsion from school; and | ||
(E) placement in a juvenile justice alternative | ||
education program. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.305(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The report card shall include the following | ||
information: | ||
(1) where applicable, the student achievement | ||
indicators described by Section 39.053(c) and the reporting | ||
indicators described by Sections 39.301(c)(1) through (5) and (13); | ||
(2) average class size by grade level and subject; | ||
(3) the administrative and instructional costs per | ||
student, computed in a manner consistent with Section 44.0071; and | ||
(4) the district's instructional expenditures ratio | ||
and instructional employees ratio computed under Section 44.0071, | ||
and the statewide average of those ratios, as determined by the | ||
commissioner. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2013. |