85R232 SRS-D
By: Lucio III H.B. No. 172
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the consideration of the performance of students of
limited English proficiency on state assessment instruments and
inclusion of related information in campus report cards.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.027(a-2), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a-2) Unless a student is enrolled in a school in the United
States for a period of at least 120 [60] consecutive days during a
year, the student may not be considered to be enrolled in a school
in the United States for that year for the purpose of determining a
number of years under Subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3).
SECTION 2. Section 39.054, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (d) and (d-1) to read as follows:
(d) Except as provided by Subsection (d-1), in evaluating
performance under Subsection (c), the commissioner may not lower a
performance rating for purposes of this chapter based on
unsatisfactory performance on an assessment instrument
administered under Section 39.023 to a student for a period of two
years after the student's initial enrollment in a school in the
United States if the student is a student of limited English
proficiency, as defined by Section 29.052. This subsection does
not apply to a performance rating for purposes of:
(1) compliance monitoring under Section 7.028; or
(2) public school accountability under federal law.
(d-1) Subsection (d) does not apply if the assessment
instrument administered to a student of limited English proficiency
is in the student's native language.
SECTION 3. Section 39.305(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The report card shall include the following
information:
(1) where applicable, the achievement indicators
described by Section 39.053(c) and the reporting indicators
described by Sections 39.301(c)(1) through (5);
(2) average class size by grade level and subject;
(3) the administrative and instructional costs per
student, computed in a manner consistent with Section 44.0071;
[and]
(4) the district's instructional expenditures ratio
and instructional employees ratio computed under Section 44.0071,
and the statewide average of those ratios, as determined by the
commissioner; and
(5) the performance of students of limited English
proficiency, as defined by Section 29.052, on assessment
instruments administered under Section 39.023.
SECTION 4. Section 39.027(a-2), Education Code, as amended
by this Act, and Section 39.054(d), Education Code, as added by this
Act, apply to a student regardless of the date on which the student
initially enrolled in a school in the United States.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.