| 1 | 1 | | 86R2060 CAE-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Hughes S.B. No. 1983 |
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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 excluding certain students from the computation of |
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| 8 | 8 | | dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school |
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| 9 | 9 | | accountability. |
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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. Section 39.053(g-1), Education Code, is amended |
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| 12 | 12 | | to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (g-1) In computing dropout and completion rates such as high |
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| 14 | 14 | | school graduation rates under Subsection (c)(1)(B)(ix), the |
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| 15 | 15 | | commissioner shall exclude: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (1) students who are ordered by a court to attend a |
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| 17 | 17 | | high school equivalency certificate program but who have not yet |
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| 18 | 18 | | earned a high school equivalency certificate; |
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| 19 | 19 | | (2) students who were previously reported to the state |
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| 20 | 20 | | as dropouts, including a student who is reported as a dropout, |
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| 21 | 21 | | reenrolls, and drops out again, regardless of the number of times of |
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| 22 | 22 | | reenrollment and dropping out; |
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| 23 | 23 | | (3) students in attendance who are not in membership |
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| 24 | 24 | | for purposes of average daily attendance; |
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| 25 | 25 | | (4) students whose initial enrollment in a school in |
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| 26 | 26 | | the United States in grades 7 through 12 was as an unschooled asylee |
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| 27 | 27 | | or refugee as defined by Section 39.027(a-1); |
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| 28 | 28 | | (5) students who are detained at a county |
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| 29 | 29 | | pre-adjudication or post-adjudication juvenile detention facility |
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| 30 | 30 | | and: |
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| 31 | 31 | | (A) in the district exclusively as a function of |
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| 32 | 32 | | having been detained at the facility but are otherwise not students |
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| 33 | 33 | | of the district in which the facility is located; or |
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| 34 | 34 | | (B) provided services by an open-enrollment |
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| 35 | 35 | | charter school exclusively as the result of having been detained at |
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| 36 | 36 | | the facility; [and] |
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| 37 | 37 | | (6) students who are incarcerated in state jails and |
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| 38 | 38 | | federal penitentiaries as adults and as persons certified to stand |
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| 39 | 39 | | trial as adults; and |
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| 40 | 40 | | (7) students who have suffered a condition, injury, or |
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| 41 | 41 | | illness that requires substantial medical care and leaves the |
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| 42 | 42 | | student unable to attend school. |
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| 43 | 43 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 |
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| 44 | 44 | | school year. |
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| 45 | 45 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 46 | 46 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 47 | 47 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 48 | 48 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 49 | 49 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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