Bill Text: TX SB727 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to excluding certain students from the computation of dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school accountability.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-15 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB727 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB727-Comm_Sub.html
By: Garcia, Huffines | S.B. No. 727 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 3, 2017; February 21, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Education; | ||
May 3, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, | ||
Nays 0; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to excluding certain students from the computation of | ||
dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school | ||
accountability. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 39.053(g-1) and (g-2), Education Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(g-1) In computing dropout and completion rates under | ||
Subsections (c)(4)(A)(i) and (B)(ii)(a), the commissioner shall | ||
exclude: | ||
(1) students who are ordered by a court to attend a | ||
high school equivalency certificate program but who have not yet | ||
earned a high school equivalency certificate; | ||
(2) students who were previously reported to the state | ||
as dropouts, including a student who is reported as a dropout, | ||
reenrolls, and drops out again, regardless of the number of times of | ||
reenrollment and dropping out; | ||
(3) students in attendance who are not in membership | ||
for purposes of average daily attendance; | ||
(4) students whose initial enrollment in a school in | ||
the United States in grades 7 through 12 was as unschooled refugees | ||
or asylees as defined by Section 39.027(a-1); | ||
(5) students who are detained at a county | ||
pre-adjudication or post-adjudication juvenile detention facility | ||
and: | ||
(A) in the district exclusively as a function of | ||
having been detained at the [ |
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otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is | ||
located; or | ||
(B) provided services by an open-enrollment | ||
charter school exclusively as the result of having been detained at | ||
the facility; and | ||
(6) students who are incarcerated in state jails and | ||
federal penitentiaries as adults and as persons certified to stand | ||
trial as adults. | ||
(g-2) In computing completion rates under Subsection | ||
(c)(4)(A)(i) [ |
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who: | ||
(1) are at least 18 years of age as of September 1 of | ||
the school year as reported for the fall semester Public Education | ||
Information Management System (PEIMS) submission and have | ||
satisfied the credit requirements for high school graduation; | ||
(2) have not completed their individualized education | ||
program under 19 T.A.C. Section 89.1070(b)(2) and the Individuals | ||
with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1400 et seq.); | ||
and | ||
(3) are enrolled and receiving individualized | ||
education program services. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
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, 2017. | ||
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