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1	1	83R19058 PAM-D
2	2	By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 3907
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to consideration of certain graduates and dropouts in
8	8	evaluation of school districts, campuses, and open-enrollment
9	9	charter schools for accountability purposes.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 39.053(g-1), Education Code, is amended
12	12	to read as follows:
13	13	(g-1) In computing dropout and completion rates under
14	14	Subsection (c)(2), the commissioner shall exclude:
15	15	(1) students who are ordered by a court to attend a
16	16	high school equivalency certificate program but who have not yet
17	17	earned a high school equivalency certificate;
18	18	(2) students who were previously reported to the state
19	19	as dropouts, including a student who is reported as a dropout,
20	20	reenrolls, and drops out again, regardless of the number of times of
21	21	reenrollment and dropping out;
22	22	(3) students in attendance who are not in membership
23	23	for purposes of average daily attendance;
24	24	(4) students whose initial enrollment in a school in
25	25	the United States in grades 7 through 12 was as unschooled refugees
26	26	or asylees as defined by Section 39.027(a-1);
27	27	(5) students who are in the district exclusively as a
28	28	function of having been detained at a county detention facility but
29	29	are otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is
30	30	located; and
31	31	(6) students who are incarcerated in state jails and
32	32	federal penitentiaries as adults and as persons certified to stand
33	33	trial as adults.
34	34	SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
35	35	amended by adding Section 39.0541 to read as follows:
36	36	Sec. 39.0541. STANDARDS FOR EVALUATING COMPLETION AND
37	37	DROPOUT RATES. For purposes of evaluating a school district or
38	38	campus or an open-enrollment charter school for adequate yearly
39	39	progress under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C.
40	40	Section 6301 et seq.) and, notwithstanding Section 39.053(c)(2),
41	41	for accountability under this chapter and for performance under an
42	42	agency performance-based monitoring analysis system:
43	43	(1) a student who graduates from a school district
44	44	campus or open-enrollment charter school is considered a high
45	45	school graduate of the campus or school regardless of whether the
46	46	student graduates with the student's ninth grade cohort; and
47	47	(2) consistent with Section 39.053(g-1)(2), a student
48	48	who was previously reported to the state as a dropout, including a
49	49	student who is reported as a dropout, reenrolls, and drops out
50	50	again, regardless of the number of times of reenrollment and
51	51	dropping out, shall be excluded in computing completion and dropout
52	52	rates.
53	53	SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
54	54	school year.
55	55	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
56	56	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
57	57	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
58	58	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
59	59	Act takes effect September 1, 2013.