| 1 | 1 | | 81R661 PAM-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Dutton H.B. No. 915 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to evaluation under the public school accountability |
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| 8 | 8 | | system of the delivery of library resources. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Section 39.072, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 11 | 11 | | adding Subsection (b-1) and amending Subsection (c) to read as |
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| 12 | 12 | | follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (b-1) Additional criteria in the rules for rating a school |
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| 14 | 14 | | district under this section must include consideration of the |
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| 15 | 15 | | effectiveness of the district's delivery of resources from school |
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| 16 | 16 | | libraries. |
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| 17 | 17 | | (c) The agency shall evaluate against state standards and |
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| 18 | 18 | | shall, not later than August 1 of each year, report the performance |
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| 19 | 19 | | of each campus in a district and each open-enrollment charter |
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| 20 | 20 | | school on the basis of the campus's performance on the indicators |
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| 21 | 21 | | adopted under Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8). Consideration of |
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| 22 | 22 | | the effectiveness of district programs under Subsection (b)(2) or |
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| 23 | 23 | | (3) must be based on data collected through the Public Education |
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| 24 | 24 | | Information Management System for purposes of accountability under |
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| 25 | 25 | | this chapter and include the results of assessments required under |
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| 26 | 26 | | Section 39.023. Consideration of the effectiveness of district |
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| 27 | 27 | | delivery of library resources under Subsection (b-1) must be based |
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| 28 | 28 | | on whether a library is located on each campus and whether a |
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| 29 | 29 | | librarian is employed by the district to staff a library at each |
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| 30 | 30 | | campus. |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010 |
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| 32 | 32 | | school year. |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 34 | 34 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 35 | 35 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 36 | 36 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 37 | 37 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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