By: Hughes S.B. No. 1984
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to alternative public school accountability
interventions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 8, is amended by adding
Section 8.063 to read as follows:
Sec. 8.063. REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER INTERVENTION
TEAM AND PROGRAM. (a) Each regional education service center may
create an intervention team composed of seven members as follows:
(1) the executive director of the regional education
service center; and
(2) the six superintendents employed by school
districts with the highest performance ratings in the area served
by the regional education service center.
(b) Each regional education service center intervention
team created under (a) shall develop an alternative intervention
program for districts and campuses in the area served by the
regional education service center that are subject to Chapter 39A
interventions and sanctions.
(c) Each regional education service center that has created
an intervention team and developed an alternative intervention
program shall submit a written report to the commissioner
identifying the intervention team members and the components of the
alternative intervention program.
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 39A, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 39A.008 to read as follows:
Sec. 39A.008. OPTIONAL ALTERNATIVE INTERVENTION. (a)
Prior to the closure of a campus or the appointment of a board of
managers for a school district or campus under this chapter, the
commissioner may, in the alternative, place the campus or school
district under the oversight of a regional education service center
intervention team for the implementation of intervention measures
as provided under the program developed by the team under Section
8.063.
(b) If the commissioner makes an election under (a) and a
campus or school district receives an unacceptable performance
rating for two consecutive school years after such election, the
commissioner shall order:
(1) appointment of a board of managers to govern the
district or campus as provided by Subchapter E; or
(2) closure of the campus.
SECTION 3. Section 39A.008, Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to a school district that is subject to an
intervention or sanction on or after the effective date of this Act.
A school district subject to an intervention or sanction before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.