Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB522 Compare Versions

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1	1	81R4281 PAM-D
2	2	By: Giddings H.B. No. 522
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to intensive preparation academies in certain school
8	8	districts to prepare public school students to take required
9	9	end-of-course assessment instruments.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
12	12	amended by adding Section 39.0251 to read as follows:
13	13	Sec. 39.0251. END-OF-COURSE ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT
14	14	INTENSIVE PREPARATION ACADEMIES. (a) This section applies only to
15	15	a school district with an enrollment of 5,000 or more students.
16	16	(b) For any school year in which state funds are
17	17	appropriated for purposes of this section, a school district in
18	18	which five percent or more of the students fail to perform
19	19	satisfactorily on an assessment instrument required under Section
20	20	39.025(a) shall, at the end of the school year, operate an intensive
21	21	preparation academy to prepare those students to retake the
22	22	assessment instrument.
23	23	(c) An intensive preparation academy must:
24	24	(1) be operated for at least 30 school days;
25	25	(2) include instruction in the curriculum material
26	26	most likely to be included in the assessment instruments required
27	27	under Section 39.025(a); and
28	28	(3) include instruction in strategies for performing
29	29	satisfactorily on the assessment instruments.
30	30	(d) A student who fails to perform satisfactorily on an
31	31	assessment instrument required under Section 39.025(a) shall
32	32	attend each portion of an intensive preparation academy under this
33	33	section relating to that assessment instrument or to strategies
34	34	described by Subsection (c)(3).
35	35	(e) For purposes of this section, satisfactory performance
36	36	on an assessment instrument is determined by the State Board of
37	37	Education under Section 39.024.
38	38	SECTION 2. Section 25.085(d), Education Code, is amended to
39	39	read as follows:
40	40	(d) Unless specifically exempted by Section 25.086, a
41	41	student enrolled in a school district must attend:
42	42	(1) an extended-year program for which the student is
43	43	eligible that is provided by the district for students identified
44	44	as likely not to be promoted to the next grade level or tutorial
45	45	classes required by the district under Section 29.084;
46	46	(2) an accelerated reading instruction program to
47	47	which the student is assigned under Section 28.006(g);
48	48	(3) an accelerated instruction program to which the
49	49	student is assigned under Section 28.0211;
50	50	(4) a basic skills program to which the student is
51	51	assigned under Section 29.086; [or]
52	52	(5) a summer program provided under Section 37.008(l)
53	53	or Section 37.021; or
54	54	(6) an intensive preparation academy to which the
55	55	student is assigned under Section 39.0251.
56	56	SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010
57	57	school year.
58	58	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
59	59	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
60	60	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
61	61	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
62	62	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.