LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION April 10, 2011 TO: Honorable Rob Eissler, Chair, House Committee on Public Education FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB2135 by Hochberg (Relating to certain assessment requirements for public school students.), As Introduced No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. The bill would stipulate that a student in grades 5 or 8 who is enrolled in a course for high school credit for which the student will be assessed through an end of course assessment is not required to be assessed using the grade 5 or 8 state assessment for the same subject. The bill would specify that the performance of students in grades 5 or 8 who are enrolled in a course for high school credit on an end of course assessment would be included in the aggregated performance on state assessments of other students in their grade levels for purposes of the accountability system. The bill would create a campus distinction designation related to the rate of satisfactory performance on end of course assessments. Local Government Impact School districts would be required to administer only an EOC assessment to a student in a grade level below high school who was completing a course in a subject for high school credit and being administered an EOC assessment instrument in that subject, instead of both the EOC assessment and the grade-level assessment in the subject. Source Agencies:701 Central Education Agency LBB Staff: JOB, LXH, JGM, JSc
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
April 10, 2011
TO: Honorable Rob Eissler, Chair, House Committee on Public Education FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB2135 by Hochberg (Relating to certain assessment requirements for public school students.), As Introduced
TO: Honorable Rob Eissler, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB2135 by Hochberg (Relating to certain assessment requirements for public school students.), As Introduced
Honorable Rob Eissler, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
Honorable Rob Eissler, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
HB2135 by Hochberg (Relating to certain assessment requirements for public school students.), As Introduced
HB2135 by Hochberg (Relating to certain assessment requirements for public school students.), As Introduced
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would stipulate that a student in grades 5 or 8 who is enrolled in a course for high school credit for which the student will be assessed through an end of course assessment is not required to be assessed using the grade 5 or 8 state assessment for the same subject. The bill would specify that the performance of students in grades 5 or 8 who are enrolled in a course for high school credit on an end of course assessment would be included in the aggregated performance on state assessments of other students in their grade levels for purposes of the accountability system. The bill would create a campus distinction designation related to the rate of satisfactory performance on end of course assessments.
The bill would stipulate that a student in grades 5 or 8 who is enrolled in a course for high school credit for which the student will be assessed through an end of course assessment is not required to be assessed using the grade 5 or 8 state assessment for the same subject.
The bill would specify that the performance of students in grades 5 or 8 who are enrolled in a course for high school credit on an end of course assessment would be included in the aggregated performance on state assessments of other students in their grade levels for purposes of the accountability system.
The bill would create a campus distinction designation related to the rate of satisfactory performance on end of course assessments.
Local Government Impact
School districts would be required to administer only an EOC assessment to a student in a grade level below high school who was completing a course in a subject for high school credit and being administered an EOC assessment instrument in that subject, instead of both the EOC assessment and the grade-level assessment in the subject.
Source Agencies: 701 Central Education Agency
701 Central Education Agency
LBB Staff: JOB, LXH, JGM, JSc
JOB, LXH, JGM, JSc