Bill Text: TX SB43 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to consideration of school district disciplinary placement information in evaluating district performance.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-23 - Left pending in committee [SB43 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB43-Introduced.html
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| 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. | ||
