83R8732 PAM-D
By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 2581
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to consideration of certain open-enrollment charter
school graduates for accountability purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.0541 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.0541. EVALUATING OPEN-ENROLLMENT CHARTER SCHOOLS.
For purposes of evaluating an open-enrollment charter school for
adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
(20 U.S.C. Section 6301 et seq.) and, notwithstanding Section
39.053(c)(2), for accountability under this chapter and for
performance under an agency performance-based monitoring analysis
system, a student who graduates from the school is considered a high
school graduate regardless of whether the student graduates with
the student's ninth grade cohort.
SECTION 2. Section 39.0541, Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.
SECTION 3. 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, 2013.