82R7186 CAS-D
By: Castro H.B. No. 1394
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to reports concerning the number of full-time librarians,
counselors, and school nurses who are employed at a public school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 39.305(b) and (c), Education Code, are
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);
(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;
(5) the number of full-time:
(A) librarians;
(B) counselors certified under Subchapter B,
Chapter 21; and
(C) school nurses; and
(6) the number of students per counselor certified
under Subchapter B, Chapter 21.
(c) The commissioner shall adopt rules requiring
dissemination of the information required under Subsections
(b)(4), (5), and (6) [Subsection (b)(4)] and appropriate class
size and student performance portions of campus report cards
annually to the parent, guardian, conservator, or other person
having lawful control of each student at the campus. On written
request, the school district shall provide a copy of a campus report
card to any other party.
SECTION 2. Sections 39.306(a) and (e), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report
describing the educational performance of the district and of each
campus in the district that includes uniform student performance
and descriptive information as determined under rules adopted by
the commissioner. The annual report must also include:
(1) campus performance objectives established under
Section 11.253 and the progress of each campus toward those
objectives, which shall be available to the public;
(2) information indicating the district's
accreditation status and identifying each district campus awarded a
distinction designation under Subchapter G or considered an
unacceptable campus under Subchapter E;
(3) the district's current special education
compliance status with the agency;
(4) a statement of the number, rate, and type of
violent or criminal incidents that occurred on each district
campus, to the extent permitted under the Family Educational Rights
and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g);
(5) information concerning school violence prevention
and violence intervention policies and procedures that the district
is using to protect students;
(6) the findings that result from evaluations
conducted under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act
[of 1994] (20 U.S.C. Section 7101 et seq.); [and]
(7) information received under Section 51.403(e) for
each high school campus in the district, presented in a form
determined by the commissioner; and
(8) for each campus, the number of full-time:
(A) librarians;
(B) counselors certified under Subchapter B,
Chapter 21; and
(C) school nurses.
(e) The report may include the following information:
(1) student information, including total enrollment,
enrollment by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and grade groupings
and retention rates;
(2) financial information, including revenues and
expenditures;
(3) staff information in addition to the information
required under Subsection (a)(8), including number and type of
staff by sex, ethnicity, years of experience, and highest degree
held, teacher and administrator salaries, and teacher turnover;
(4) program information, including student enrollment
by program, teachers by program, and instructional operating
expenditures by program; and
(5) the number of students placed in a disciplinary
alternative education program under Chapter 37.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012
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, 2011.