BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research Center S.B. 1170 84R7901 PAM-F By: Garcia Education 3/18/2015 As Filed
BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center S.B. 1170
84R7901 PAM-F By: Garcia
Education
3/18/2015
As Filed
Senate Research Center
S.B. 1170
84R7901 PAM-F
By: Garcia
Education
3/18/2015
As Filed
AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT Currently, students being served while in a Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) facility are not counted for the purposes of dropout and completion rates if they are receiving education services through a public school district. However, if a TJJD facility is being operated by a charter school, the same exemption does not apply. S.B. 1170 would simply extend the same dropout and completion rate exemption for students receiving educational services through a charter school. As proposed, S.B. 1170 amends current law relating to excluding certain students from the computation of dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school accountability of open-enrollment charter schools. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 39.053(g-1), Education Code, as follows: (g-1) Requires the commissioner of education, in computing dropout and completion rates under Subsection (c)(2) (relating to indicators of student achievement), to exclude: (1)-(4) Makes no change to these subdivisions; (5) students who are detained at a county detention facility and: (A) in the district exclusively as a function of having been detained at the facility, rather than at the county detention facility, but are otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is located; or (B) provided services by an open-enrollment charter school exclusively as the result of having been detained at the facility; and Makes nonsubstantive changes. (6) Makes no change to this subdivision. SECTION 2. Provides that this Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 school year. SECTION 3. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2015.
AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Currently, students being served while in a Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) facility are not counted for the purposes of dropout and completion rates if they are receiving education services through a public school district. However, if a TJJD facility is being operated by a charter school, the same exemption does not apply.
S.B. 1170 would simply extend the same dropout and completion rate exemption for students receiving educational services through a charter school.
As proposed, S.B. 1170 amends current law relating to excluding certain students from the computation of dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school accountability of open-enrollment charter schools.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 39.053(g-1), Education Code, as follows:
(g-1) Requires the commissioner of education, in computing dropout and completion rates under Subsection (c)(2) (relating to indicators of student achievement), to exclude:
(1)-(4) Makes no change to these subdivisions;
(5) students who are detained at a county detention facility and:
(A) in the district exclusively as a function of having been detained at the facility, rather than at the county detention facility, but are otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is located; or
(B) provided services by an open-enrollment charter school exclusively as the result of having been detained at the facility; and
Makes nonsubstantive changes.
(6) Makes no change to this subdivision.
SECTION 2. Provides that this Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.
SECTION 3. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2015.