Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB4053 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Allen H.B. No. 4053
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to mandatory sanctions for certain academically
7	7	unacceptable public school campuses.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 39.1324, Education Code, is amended by
10	10	amending Subsections (a), (b), and (e) and adding Subsection (a-1)
11	11	to read as follows:
12	12	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), if [If] a campus
13	13	has been identified as academically unacceptable for two
14	14	consecutive school years, including the current school year, the
15	15	commissioner shall order the reconstitution of the campus and
16	16	assign a campus intervention team. In reconstituting the campus, a
17	17	campus intervention team shall assist the campus in:
18	18	(1) developing a school improvement plan;
19	19	(2) obtaining approval of the plan from the
20	20	commissioner; and
21	21	(3) executing the plan on approval by the
22	22	commissioner.
23	23	(a-1) The commissioner is not required to take action under
24	24	Subsection (a) during the second consecutive year for which a
25	25	campus is identified as academically unacceptable or, regardless of
26	26	the continued identification of the campus as academically
27	27	unacceptable, during the next school year if:
28	28	(1) the campus demonstrates improvement, as measured
29	29	from the preceding school year, in relation to performance on the
30	30	indicator or indicators under Section 39.051 on which the
31	31	identification as academically unacceptable for the current school
32	32	year is based; or
33	33	(2) the identification of the campus as academically
34	34	unacceptable for the current year is based on a single indicator
35	35	under Section 39.051 that:
36	36	(A) was not a basis for identification of the
37	37	campus as academically unacceptable for the preceding school year;
38	38	and
39	39	(B) is based on the performance of a group of
40	40	students that does not constitute more than 30 percent of the total
41	41	campus student population.
42	42	(b) The campus intervention team shall decide which
43	43	educators may be retained at that campus. A principal who has been
44	44	employed by the campus in that capacity during the [full two-year]
45	45	period described by Subsection (a) or (a-1), as applicable, and
46	46	whose campus has not demonstrated adequate improvement may not be
47	47	retained at that campus. A teacher of a subject assessed by an
48	48	assessment instrument under Section 39.023 may be retained only if
49	49	the campus intervention team determines that a pattern exists of
50	50	significant academic improvement by students taught by the teacher.
51	51	If an educator is not retained, the educator may be assigned to
52	52	another position in the district.
53	53	(e) If a campus is considered an academically unacceptable
54	54	campus for the subsequent school year after the campus is
55	55	reconstituted under this section, the commissioner shall review the
56	56	progress of the campus and may order closure of the campus or pursue
57	57	alternative management under Section 39.1327. This subsection does
58	58	not apply if the identification as academically unacceptable is
59	59	based on a single indicator under Section 39.051 that:
60	60	(A) was not a basis for identification of the
61	61	campus as academically unacceptable for the preceding school year;
62	62	and
63	63	(B) is based on the performance of a group of
64	64	students that does not constitute more than 30 percent of the total
65	65	campus student population.
66	66	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010
67	67	school year.
68	68	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
69	69	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
70	70	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
71	71	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
72	72	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.