Bill Text: TX HB2581 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to consideration of certain open-enrollment charter school graduates for accountability purposes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-26 - Left pending in committee [HB2581 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2581-Introduced.html
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| By: Harper-Brown | H.B. No. 2581 | |
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| relating to consideration of certain open-enrollment charter | ||
| school graduates for accountability purposes. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.0541 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.0541. EVALUATING OPEN-ENROLLMENT CHARTER SCHOOLS. | ||
| For purposes of evaluating an open-enrollment charter school for | ||
| adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 | ||
| (20 U.S.C. Section 6301 et seq.) and, notwithstanding Section | ||
| 39.053(c)(2), for accountability under this chapter and for | ||
| performance under an agency performance-based monitoring analysis | ||
| system, a student who graduates from the school is considered a high | ||
| school graduate regardless of whether the student graduates with | ||
| the student's ninth grade cohort. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 39.0541, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2013-2014 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, 2013. | ||
