LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 83RD LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION April 1, 2013 TO: Honorable Jimmie Don Aycock, Chair, House Committee on Public Education FROM: Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB3808 by Farney (Relating to evaluating the performance, including computing dropout and completion rates, of public schools, including schools designated as dropout recovery schools and residential facilities.), As Introduced No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. The bill would prohibit the commissioner of education from considering certain types of at-risk students as dropouts in computing dropout and completion rates. The bill would require the commissioner, in evaluating performance on student achievement indicators, to designate as a dropout recovery school a district or open-enrollment charter school or a district or charter school campus that was required to register under alternative accountability procedures and at which 50 percent or more of students were 17 years old or older. The bill would require the commissioner to adopt an alternative computation of dropout and completion rates for dropout recovery schools for purposes of determining the schools' performance. Based on the analysis of the Texas Education Agency, the duties and responsibilities associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be accomplished by utilizing existing resources. Local Government Impact No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source Agencies:701 Central Education Agency LBB Staff: UP, JBi, JSc
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 83RD LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
April 1, 2013
TO: Honorable Jimmie Don Aycock, Chair, House Committee on Public Education FROM: Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB3808 by Farney (Relating to evaluating the performance, including computing dropout and completion rates, of public schools, including schools designated as dropout recovery schools and residential facilities.), As Introduced
TO: Honorable Jimmie Don Aycock, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
FROM: Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB3808 by Farney (Relating to evaluating the performance, including computing dropout and completion rates, of public schools, including schools designated as dropout recovery schools and residential facilities.), As Introduced
Honorable Jimmie Don Aycock, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
Honorable Jimmie Don Aycock, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
HB3808 by Farney (Relating to evaluating the performance, including computing dropout and completion rates, of public schools, including schools designated as dropout recovery schools and residential facilities.), As Introduced
HB3808 by Farney (Relating to evaluating the performance, including computing dropout and completion rates, of public schools, including schools designated as dropout recovery schools and residential facilities.), As Introduced
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would prohibit the commissioner of education from considering certain types of at-risk students as dropouts in computing dropout and completion rates. The bill would require the commissioner, in evaluating performance on student achievement indicators, to designate as a dropout recovery school a district or open-enrollment charter school or a district or charter school campus that was required to register under alternative accountability procedures and at which 50 percent or more of students were 17 years old or older. The bill would require the commissioner to adopt an alternative computation of dropout and completion rates for dropout recovery schools for purposes of determining the schools' performance. Based on the analysis of the Texas Education Agency, the duties and responsibilities associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be accomplished by utilizing existing resources.
The bill would prohibit the commissioner of education from considering certain types of at-risk students as dropouts in computing dropout and completion rates.
The bill would require the commissioner, in evaluating performance on student achievement indicators, to designate as a dropout recovery school a district or open-enrollment charter school or a district or charter school campus that was required to register under alternative accountability procedures and at which 50 percent or more of students were 17 years old or older.
The bill would require the commissioner to adopt an alternative computation of dropout and completion rates for dropout recovery schools for purposes of determining the schools' performance.
Based on the analysis of the Texas Education Agency, the duties and responsibilities associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be accomplished by utilizing existing resources.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies: 701 Central Education Agency
701 Central Education Agency
LBB Staff: UP, JBi, JSc
UP, JBi, JSc