| 1 | 1 | | By: Hughes S.B. No. 1984 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to alternative public school accountability |
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| 7 | 7 | | interventions. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 8, is amended by adding |
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| 10 | 10 | | Section 8.063 to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | Sec. 8.063. REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER INTERVENTION |
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| 12 | 12 | | TEAM AND PROGRAM. (a) Each regional education service center may |
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| 13 | 13 | | create an intervention team composed of seven members as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (1) the executive director of the regional education |
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| 15 | 15 | | service center; and |
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| 16 | 16 | | (2) the six superintendents employed by school |
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| 17 | 17 | | districts with the highest performance ratings in the area served |
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| 18 | 18 | | by the regional education service center. |
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| 19 | 19 | | (b) Each regional education service center intervention |
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| 20 | 20 | | team created under (a) shall develop an alternative intervention |
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| 21 | 21 | | program for districts and campuses in the area served by the |
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| 22 | 22 | | regional education service center that are subject to Chapter 39A |
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| 23 | 23 | | interventions and sanctions. |
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| 24 | 24 | | (c) Each regional education service center that has created |
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| 25 | 25 | | an intervention team and developed an alternative intervention |
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| 26 | 26 | | program shall submit a written report to the commissioner |
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| 27 | 27 | | identifying the intervention team members and the components of the |
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| 28 | 28 | | alternative intervention program. |
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| 29 | 29 | | SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 39A, Education Code, is |
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| 30 | 30 | | amended by adding Section 39A.008 to read as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | Sec. 39A.008. OPTIONAL ALTERNATIVE INTERVENTION. (a) |
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| 32 | 32 | | Prior to the closure of a campus or the appointment of a board of |
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| 33 | 33 | | managers for a school district or campus under this chapter, the |
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| 34 | 34 | | commissioner may, in the alternative, place the campus or school |
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| 35 | 35 | | district under the oversight of a regional education service center |
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| 36 | 36 | | intervention team for the implementation of intervention measures |
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| 37 | 37 | | as provided under the program developed by the team under Section |
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| 38 | 38 | | 8.063. |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) If the commissioner makes an election under (a) and a |
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| 40 | 40 | | campus or school district receives an unacceptable performance |
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| 41 | 41 | | rating for two consecutive school years after such election, the |
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| 42 | 42 | | commissioner shall order: |
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| 43 | 43 | | (1) appointment of a board of managers to govern the |
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| 44 | 44 | | district or campus as provided by Subchapter E; or |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) closure of the campus. |
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| 46 | 46 | | SECTION 3. Section 39A.008, Education Code, as added by |
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| 47 | 47 | | this Act, applies only to a school district that is subject to an |
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| 48 | 48 | | intervention or sanction on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 49 | 49 | | A school district subject to an intervention or sanction before the |
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| 50 | 50 | | effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed |
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| 51 | 51 | | immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is |
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| 52 | 52 | | continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 53 | 53 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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