Bill Text: TX SB1623 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to transfer of a student of limited English proficiency out of a public school bilingual education or special language program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Education [SB1623 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1623-Introduced.html

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82R10232 PAM-D
By: Van de Putte S.B. No. 1623

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to transfer of a student of limited English proficiency
out of a public school bilingual education or special language
program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 29.056(g), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(g) A district may transfer a student of limited English
proficiency out of a bilingual education or special language
program for the first time or a subsequent time if the student is
able to participate equally in a regular all-English instructional
program as determined by:
(1) agency-approved tests administered at the end of
each school year to determine the extent to which the student has
developed oral and written language proficiency and specific
language skills in both the student's primary language and English;
(2) satisfactory performance on the reading
assessment instrument under Section 39.023(a) or an appropriate
English end-of-course [language arts] assessment instrument under
Section 39.023(c), as applicable, with the assessment instrument
administered in English[, or, if the student is enrolled in the
first or second grade, an achievement score at or above the 40th
percentile in the reading and language arts sections of an English
standardized test approved by the agency]; and
(3) other indications of a student's overall progress,
including [agency-approved] criterion-referenced test scores,
[tests and the results of a] subjective teacher evaluation, and
parental evaluation.
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.