By: Fallon S.B. No. 2285
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read
first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 1, 2019,
reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 1, 2019, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2285 By: Fallon
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to challenges by school districts and open-enrollment
charter schools to accountability determinations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.151, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
follows:
(b) The rules under Subsection (a) must provide for the
commissioner to appoint a committee to make recommendations to the
commissioner on a challenge made to an agency decision relating to
an academic performance rating or determination or financial
accountability rating. The committee shall review the challenge
regardless of the issue identified in the challenge by the school
district or open-enrollment charter school. The commissioner may
not appoint an agency employee as a member of the committee.
(c-1) The commissioner may not limit a challenge relating to
a data or calculation error attributable to the school district or
open-enrollment charter school, even if the challenge demonstrates
the data or calculation error caused the district or school to have
a lower academic or financial accountability rating. If a
challenge demonstrates that the data or calculation error caused
the district or school to have a lower academic or financial
accountability rating, the commissioner shall assign the district
or school the corrected rating or shall indicate that the district
or school will not be rated for that school year.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
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, 2019.
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