Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3939 Compare Versions

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1	1	89R13866 AND-D
2	2	By: Johnson H.B. No. 3939
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to student input for school district and campus
10	10	improvement plans.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 11.251, Education Code, is amended by
13	13	amending Subsections (b) and (g) and adding Subsection (b-1) to
14	14	read as follows:
15	15	(b) The board shall adopt a policy to establish a district-
16	16	and campus-level planning and decision-making process that will
17	17	involve the professional staff of the district, parents, students,
18	18	and community members in establishing and reviewing the district's
19	19	and campuses' educational plans, goals, performance objectives,
20	20	and major classroom instructional programs. The board shall
21	21	establish a procedure under which meetings are held regularly by
22	22	district- and campus-level planning and decision-making committees
23	23	that include representative professional staff, including, if
24	24	practicable, at least one representative with the primary
25	25	responsibility for educating students with disabilities, parents
26	26	of students enrolled in the district, business representatives, and
27	27	community members and that may include students enrolled in the
28	28	district. The committees shall include a business representative
29	29	without regard to whether the representative resides in the
30	30	district or whether the business the person represents is located
31	31	in the district. The board, or the board's designee, shall
32	32	periodically meet with the district-level committee to review the
33	33	district-level committee's deliberations.
34	34	(b-1) The board shall adopt policies providing avenues for
35	35	students to participate in the district- and campus-level planning
36	36	and decision-making process, such as by inviting students to attend
37	37	committee meetings or providing student input boxes at each campus
38	38	through which a student may provide input anonymously.
39	39	(g) This section does not:
40	40	(1) prohibit the board from conducting meetings with
41	41	teachers or groups of teachers other than the meetings described by
42	42	this section;
43	43	(2) prohibit the board from establishing policies
44	44	providing avenues for input from others, including [students or]
45	45	paraprofessional staff, in district- or campus-level planning and
46	46	decision-making;
47	47	(3) limit or affect the power of the board to govern
48	48	the public schools; or
49	49	(4) create a new cause of action or require collective
50	50	bargaining.
51	51	SECTION 2. Section 11.252, Education Code, is amended by
52	52	adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsection (e) to read as
53	53	follows:
54	54	(a-1) A district improvement plan must identify the student
55	55	input that was incorporated into the plan.
56	56	(e) The district-level committee established under Section
57	57	11.251 shall hold at least one public meeting per year. The
58	58	required meeting shall be held after receipt of the annual district
59	59	performance report from the agency for the purpose of discussing
60	60	the performance of the district and the district performance
61	61	objectives. District policy and procedures must be established to
62	62	ensure that systematic communications measures are in place to
63	63	periodically obtain broad-based community, parent, student, and
64	64	staff input and to provide information to those persons regarding
65	65	the recommendations of the district-level committee. This section
66	66	does not create a new cause of action or require collective
67	67	bargaining.
68	68	SECTION 3. Sections 11.253(d) and (g), Education Code, are
69	69	amended to read as follows:
70	70	(d) Each campus improvement plan must:
71	71	(1) assess the academic achievement for each student
72	72	in the school using the achievement indicator system as described
73	73	by Section 39.053;
74	74	(2) set the campus performance objectives based on the
75	75	achievement indicator system, including objectives for special
76	76	needs populations, including students in special education
77	77	programs under Subchapter A, Chapter 29;
78	78	(3) identify how the campus goals will be met for each
79	79	student;
80	80	(4) determine the resources needed to implement the
81	81	plan;
82	82	(5) identify staff needed to implement the plan;
83	83	(6) set timelines for reaching the goals;
84	84	(7) measure progress toward the performance
85	85	objectives periodically to ensure that the plan is resulting in
86	86	academic improvement;
87	87	(8) include goals and methods for violence prevention
88	88	and intervention on campus;
89	89	(9) provide for a program to encourage parental
90	90	involvement at the campus; [and]
91	91	(10) if the campus is an elementary, middle, or junior
92	92	high school, set goals and objectives for the coordinated health
93	93	program at the campus based on:
94	94	(A) student fitness assessment data, including
95	95	any data from research-based assessments such as the school health
96	96	index assessment and planning tool created by the federal Centers
97	97	for Disease Control and Prevention;
98	98	(B) student academic performance data;
99	99	(C) student attendance rates;
100	100	(D) the percentage of students who are
101	101	educationally disadvantaged;
102	102	(E) the use and success of any method to ensure
103	103	that students participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity
104	104	as required by Section 28.002(l); and
105	105	(F) any other indicator recommended by the local
106	106	school health advisory council; and
107	107	(11) identify the student input that was incorporated
108	108	into the plan.
109	109	(g) Each campus-level committee shall hold at least one
110	110	public meeting per year. The required meeting shall be held after
111	111	receipt of the annual campus rating from the agency to discuss the
112	112	performance of the campus and the campus performance objectives.
113	113	District policy and campus procedures must be established to ensure
114	114	that systematic communications measures are in place to
115	115	periodically obtain broad-based community, parent, student, and
116	116	staff input, and to provide information to those persons regarding
117	117	the recommendations of the campus-level committees.
118	118	SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
119	119	school year.
120	120	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
121	121	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
122	122	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
123	123	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
124	124	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.