| 1 | 1 | | By: Van de Putte, et al. S.B. No. 1538 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (Farney, Geren, Patrick, Alonzo) |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to evaluating the performance, including computing |
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| 8 | 8 | | dropout and completion rates, of public schools designated as |
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| 9 | 9 | | dropout recovery schools. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is |
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| 12 | 12 | | amended by adding Section 39.0545 to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Sec. 39.0545. EVALUATING DROPOUT RECOVERY SCHOOLS. |
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| 14 | 14 | | (a) For purposes of evaluating performance under Section |
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| 15 | 15 | | 39.053(c), the commissioner shall designate as a dropout recovery |
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| 16 | 16 | | school a school district or an open-enrollment charter school or a |
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| 17 | 17 | | campus of a district or of an open-enrollment charter school: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (1) that serves students in grades 9 through 12 and has |
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| 19 | 19 | | an enrollment of which at least 50 percent of the students are 17 |
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| 20 | 20 | | years of age or older as of September 1 of the school year as |
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| 21 | 21 | | reported for the fall semester Public Education Information |
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| 22 | 22 | | Management System (PEIMS) submission; and |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2) that meets the eligibility requirements for and is |
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| 24 | 24 | | registered under alternative education accountability procedures |
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| 25 | 25 | | adopted by the commissioner. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (b) Notwithstanding Section 39.053(c)(2), the commissioner |
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| 27 | 27 | | shall use the alternative completion rate under this subsection to |
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| 28 | 28 | | determine the student achievement indicator under Section |
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| 29 | 29 | | 39.053(c)(2) for a dropout recovery school. The alternative |
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| 30 | 30 | | completion rate shall be the ratio of the total number of students |
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| 31 | 31 | | who graduate, continue attending school into the next academic |
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| 32 | 32 | | year, or receive a high school equivalency certificate to the total |
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| 33 | 33 | | number of students in the longitudinal cohort of students. |
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| 34 | 34 | | (c) Notwithstanding Section 39.053(c)(2), in determining |
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| 35 | 35 | | the performance rating under Section 39.054 of a dropout recovery |
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| 36 | 36 | | school, the commissioner shall include any student described by |
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| 37 | 37 | | Section 39.053(g-1) who graduates or receives a high school |
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| 38 | 38 | | equivalency certificate. |
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| 39 | 39 | | (d) For a dropout recovery school, only the best result from |
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| 40 | 40 | | the primary administration and any retake of an assessment |
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| 41 | 41 | | instrument administered to a student in the school year evaluated |
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| 42 | 42 | | under the accountability procedures adopted by the commissioner may |
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| 43 | 43 | | be considered in determining the performance rating of the school |
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| 44 | 44 | | under Section 39.054. |
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| 45 | 45 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 |
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| 46 | 46 | | school year. |
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| 47 | 47 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 48 | 48 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 49 | 49 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 50 | 50 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 51 | 51 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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