83R19058 PAM-D
By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 3907
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to consideration of certain graduates and dropouts in
evaluation of school districts, campuses, and open-enrollment
charter schools for accountability purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.053(g-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(g-1) In computing dropout and completion rates under
Subsection (c)(2), the commissioner shall exclude:
(1) students who are ordered by a court to attend a
high school equivalency certificate program but who have not yet
earned a high school equivalency certificate;
(2) students who were previously reported to the state
as dropouts, including a student who is reported as a dropout,
reenrolls, and drops out again, regardless of the number of times of
reenrollment and dropping out;
(3) students in attendance who are not in membership
for purposes of average daily attendance;
(4) students whose initial enrollment in a school in
the United States in grades 7 through 12 was as unschooled refugees
or asylees as defined by Section 39.027(a-1);
(5) students who are in the district exclusively as a
function of having been detained at a county detention facility but
are otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is
located; and
(6) students who are incarcerated in state jails and
federal penitentiaries as adults and as persons certified to stand
trial as adults.
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.0541 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.0541. STANDARDS FOR EVALUATING COMPLETION AND
DROPOUT RATES. For purposes of evaluating a school district or
campus or 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:
(1) a student who graduates from a school district
campus or open-enrollment charter school is considered a high
school graduate of the campus or school regardless of whether the
student graduates with the student's ninth grade cohort; and
(2) consistent with Section 39.053(g-1)(2), a student
who was previously reported to the state as a dropout, including a
student who is reported as a dropout, reenrolls, and drops out
again, regardless of the number of times of reenrollment and
dropping out, shall be excluded in computing completion and dropout
rates.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
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, 2013.