85R8043 PAM-D
By: Wilson H.B. No. 2782
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the method used in rating public school districts and
campuses for accountability purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.054, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
(b) For purposes of assigning school districts and campuses
an overall and a domain performance rating under Subsection (a),
the commissioner shall ensure that the method used to evaluate
performance:
(1) is not implemented in a manner that provides for a
specific designated distribution of ratings to districts and
campuses under which a designated percentage of districts or
campuses receive an A rating or an F rating; and
(2) is implemented in a manner that provides the
mathematical possibility that all districts and campuses receive an
A rating.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
school year.
SECTION 3. 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, 2017.