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By: Giddings H.C.R. No. 156
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, House Bill No. 1500 has been adopted by the house of
representatives and the senate and is being prepared for
enrollment; and
WHEREAS, The bill contains technical errors that should be
corrected; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas, That
the enrolling clerk of the house of representatives be instructed
to correct the enrolled version of House Bill No. 1500 by striking
Section 39.054(a-1), Education Code, as amended in both places by
the bill (Senate Floor Amendment No. 3, pages 2 and 3) and
substituting the following in the first place that subsection is
amended by the bill:
(a-1) In [For purposes of] assigning [an overall]
performance ratings [rating] under Subsection (a), the
commissioner may adjust the overall performance rating of a
district or campus if the performance of the district or campus
under the indicators described by Section 39.053(c), based on
information disaggregated by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic
status, or other factors, does not meet standards established by
the commissioner. The commissioner shall [attribute]:
(1) attribute 55 percent of the performance evaluation
to the achievement indicators for the first, second, and third
domains under Sections 39.053(c)(1)-(3), provided that the
commissioner shall consider either the district's or campus's
performance rating under the first domain or the second domain,
whichever performance rating is higher, unless the district or
campus received a performance rating of F in either domain, in which
case the district or campus may not be assigned an overall
performance rating higher than B;
(2) for middle and junior high school and elementary
campuses and districts that include only those campuses, attribute
35 percent of the performance evaluation to the applicable
achievement indicators for the fourth domain under Section
39.053(c)(4);
(3) for high school campuses and districts that
include those campuses, attribute:
(A) 10 percent of the performance evaluation to
the high school graduation rate achievement indicator described by
Section 39.053(c)(4)(A)(ii); and
(B) 25 percent to the remaining applicable
achievement indicators for the fourth domain under Section
39.053(c)(4); and
(4) attribute 10 percent of the performance evaluation
to the locally selected and evaluated achievement indicators
provided for under the fifth domain under Section 39.053(c)(5).