Bill Text: TX HB233 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to providing accelerated instruction for public school students who fail to achieve satisfactory performance on certain assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-02 - Received from the House [HB233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB233-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to providing accelerated instruction for public school students who fail to achieve satisfactory performance on certain assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-02 - Received from the House [HB233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB233-Introduced.html
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By: Huberty | H.B. No. 233 |
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relating to providing accelerated instruction for public school | ||
students who fail to achieve satisfactory performance on certain | ||
assessment instruments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.0211, Education Code, as amended by | ||
H.B. No. 4545, Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, | ||
is amended by amending Subsections (a-1), (a-4), and (f-4) and | ||
adding Subsection (q) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) Each time a student fails to perform satisfactorily on | ||
a mathematics or reading [ |
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under Section 39.023(a) in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, | ||
seventh, or eighth grade, the school district in which the student | ||
attends school shall provide to the student accelerated instruction | ||
in the applicable subject area during the subsequent summer or | ||
school year and either: | ||
(1) allow the student to be assigned a classroom | ||
teacher who is certified as a master, exemplary, or recognized | ||
teacher under Section 21.3521 for the subsequent school year in the | ||
applicable subject area; or | ||
(2) provide the student supplemental instruction | ||
under Subsection (a-4). | ||
(a-4) If a district receives funding under Section 29.0881, | ||
the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations | ||
Act, 2021 (Div. M, Pub. L. No. 116-260), or the American Rescue Plan | ||
Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2), then supplemental instruction | ||
provided by a school district under Subsection (a-1)(2) must: | ||
(1) include targeted instruction in the essential | ||
knowledge and skills for the applicable grade levels and subject | ||
area; | ||
(2) be provided in addition to instruction normally | ||
provided to students in the grade level in which the student is | ||
enrolled; | ||
(3) be provided for no less than 30 total hours during | ||
the subsequent summer or school year and, unless the instruction is | ||
provided fully during summer, include instruction no less than once | ||
per week during the school year; | ||
(4) be designed to assist the student in achieving | ||
satisfactory performance in the applicable grade level and subject | ||
area; | ||
(5) include effective instructional materials | ||
designed for supplemental instruction; | ||
(6) be provided to a student individually or in a group | ||
of no more than 10 [ |
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of each student in the group authorizes a larger group; | ||
(7) be provided by a person with training in the | ||
applicable instructional materials for the supplemental | ||
instruction and under the oversight of the school district; and | ||
(8) to the extent possible, be provided by one person | ||
for the entirety of the student's supplemental instruction period. | ||
(f-4) If a student who fails to perform satisfactorily on an | ||
assessment instrument specified under Subsection (a) fails [ |
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instrument in the same subject on two subsequent consecutive | ||
attempts, the superintendent of the district, or the | ||
superintendent's designee, shall meet with the student's | ||
accelerated learning committee to: | ||
(1) identify the reason the student did not perform | ||
satisfactorily; and | ||
(2) determine, in order to ensure the student performs | ||
satisfactorily on the assessment instrument at the next | ||
administration of the assessment instrument, whether: | ||
(A) the educational plan developed for the | ||
student under Subsection (f) must be modified to provide the | ||
necessary accelerated instruction for that student; and | ||
(B) any additional resources are required for | ||
that student. | ||
(q) The commissioner may waive for one year the requirements | ||
under this section regarding accelerated learning committees and | ||
accelerated instruction for a school district in which at least 60 | ||
percent of the students who received accelerated instruction during | ||
the school year preceding the previous school year performed | ||
satisfactorily in the subsequent school year on the assessment | ||
instrument in each subject in which the student previously failed | ||
to perform satisfactorily. Not later than the beginning of each | ||
school year, the commissioner shall publish a list of school | ||
districts that qualify for a waiver under this subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2022-2023 | ||
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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |