Bill Text: TX HB998 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications for designation as a dropout recovery school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-08 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB998 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB998-Comm_Sub.html
87R17150 MWC-D | |||
By: Dutton | H.B. No. 998 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 998: | |||
By: Dutton | C.S.H.B. No. 998 |
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relating to the qualifications for designation as a dropout | ||
recovery school. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 12.1141(c), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) At the end of the term of a charter for an | ||
open-enrollment charter school, if a charter holder submits to the | ||
commissioner a petition for renewal of the charter and the charter | ||
does not meet the criteria for expedited renewal under Subsection | ||
(b) or for expiration under Subsection (d), the commissioner shall | ||
use the discretionary consideration process. The commissioner's | ||
decision under the discretionary consideration process must take | ||
into consideration the results of annual evaluations under the | ||
performance frameworks established under Section 12.1181. The | ||
renewal of the charter of an open-enrollment charter school that is | ||
registered under the agency's alternative education accountability | ||
procedures for evaluation under Chapter 39 shall be considered | ||
under the discretionary consideration process regardless of the | ||
performance ratings under Subchapter C, Chapter 39, of the | ||
open-enrollment charter school or of any campus operating under the | ||
charter, except that if the charter holder has been assigned a | ||
financial accountability performance rating under Subchapter D, | ||
Chapter 39, indicating financial performance that is lower than | ||
satisfactory for any three of the five preceding school years, the | ||
commissioner shall allow the charter to expire under Subsection | ||
(d). In considering the renewal of the charter of an | ||
open-enrollment charter school that is registered under the | ||
agency's alternative education accountability procedures for | ||
evaluation under Chapter 39, such as a dropout recovery school or a | ||
school providing education within a residential treatment | ||
facility, the commissioner shall use academic criteria established | ||
by commissioner rule that are appropriate to measure the specific | ||
goals of the school. The criteria established by the commissioner | ||
shall recognize growth in student achievement as well as | ||
educational attainment. For purposes of this subsection, the | ||
commissioner shall designate as a dropout recovery school an | ||
open-enrollment charter school or a campus of an open-enrollment | ||
charter school: | ||
(1) that serves students in grades 9 through 12 and has | ||
an enrollment of which at least 60 [ |
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16 [ |
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reported for the fall semester Public Education Information | ||
Management System (PEIMS) submission; and | ||
(2) that meets the eligibility requirements for and is | ||
registered under alternative education accountability procedures | ||
adopted by the commissioner. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 12.137(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) This section applies only to: | ||
(1) an open-enrollment charter school designated as a | ||
dropout recovery school as described by Section 12.1141(c) if the | ||
enrollment of the school consists only of students 16 [ |
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age and older; and | ||
(2) an adult education program provided under a high | ||
school diploma and industry certification charter school program | ||
under Section 29.259. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 39.0548(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) For purposes of evaluating performance under Section | ||
39.053(c), the commissioner shall designate as a dropout recovery | ||
school a school district or an open-enrollment charter school or a | ||
campus of a district or of an open-enrollment charter school: | ||
(1) that: | ||
(A) serves students in grades 9 through 12 and | ||
has an enrollment of which at least 60 [ |
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are 16 [ |
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year as reported for the fall semester Public Education Information | ||
Management System (PEIMS) submission; or | ||
(B) applies for and receives designation as a | ||
dropout recovery school in accordance with commissioner rule; and | ||
(2) that meets the eligibility requirements for and is | ||
registered under alternative education accountability procedures | ||
adopted by the commissioner. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. 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, 2021. |