Bill Text: TX HB1076 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1076 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the student to teacher ratio applicable to accelerated instruction groups for certain public school students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-15 - Left pending in committee [HB1076 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1076-Introduced.html

	82R5657 KKA-D

	By: Shelton	H.B. No. 1076



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the student to teacher ratio applicable to accelerated
	instruction groups for certain public school students.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 28.0211(c), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(c) Each time a student fails to perform satisfactorily on
	an assessment instrument specified under Subsection (a), the school
	district in which the student attends school shall provide to the
	student accelerated instruction in the applicable subject area,
	including reading instruction for a student who fails to perform
	satisfactorily on a reading assessment instrument. After a student
	fails to perform satisfactorily on an assessment instrument a
	second time, a grade placement committee shall be established to
	prescribe the accelerated instruction the district shall provide to
	the student before the student is administered the assessment
	instrument the third time. The grade placement committee shall be
	composed of the principal or the principal's designee, the
	student's parent or guardian, and the teacher of the subject of an
	assessment instrument on which the student failed to perform
	satisfactorily. The district shall notify the parent or guardian
	of the time and place for convening the grade placement committee
	and the purpose of the committee. [~~An accelerated instruction~~
	~~group administered by a school district under this section may not~~
	~~have a ratio of more than 10 students for each teacher.~~]
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012
	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, 2011.