Bill Text: TX SB235 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a public school campus's election under a campus turnaround plan to operate as a community school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB235 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB235-Introduced.html
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| By: Johnson | S.B. No. 235 | |
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| relating to a public school campus's election under a campus | ||
| turnaround plan to operate as a community school. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 39A, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39A.1011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39A.1011. CAMPUS TURNAROUND PLAN TO OPERATE AS | ||
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL. (a) A campus turnaround plan may permit a campus | ||
| to operate as a community school. A plan to operate as a community | ||
| school must include, in addition to the other requirements of this | ||
| subchapter, strategies and programs to coordinate academic, | ||
| social, and health services and reduce barriers to learning through | ||
| partnerships and service coordination. | ||
| (b) Programs and services offered by a campus operating as a | ||
| community school under a campus turnaround plan may include: | ||
| (1) early childhood education; | ||
| (2) after-school and summer school academic and | ||
| enrichment programs; | ||
| (3) college and career preparation; | ||
| (4) service learning opportunities, such as | ||
| internships and community service programs; | ||
| (5) leadership and mentoring programs; | ||
| (6) activities to encourage community and parent | ||
| engagement in students' education; | ||
| (7) health and social services for students and their | ||
| families; and | ||
| (8) parenting classes. | ||
| (c) A campus that elects to operate as a community school | ||
| under a campus turnaround plan must: | ||
| (1) establish a school community partnership team, | ||
| composed of the members required for a campus-level planning and | ||
| decision-making committee under Section 11.251 and additional | ||
| community representatives, to coordinate with the campus | ||
| intervention team for the campus; | ||
| (2) establish a partnership with a lead organization | ||
| that has experience in developing and implementing a community | ||
| school plan; | ||
| (3) designate a school district employee or an | ||
| employee of an organization with experience in developing and | ||
| implementing a community school plan as the community school | ||
| coordinator for the campus, whose duties must include the | ||
| recruitment and coordination of services from community partners; | ||
| (4) develop a community school plan that satisfies the | ||
| requirements for a campus improvement plan under Section 11.253; | ||
| and | ||
| (5) obtain approval for the community school plan | ||
| from: | ||
| (A) at least 75 percent of campus faculty and | ||
| staff and 75 percent of parents of students enrolled at the campus; | ||
| and | ||
| (B) the board of trustees of the school district | ||
| in which the campus is located. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 39A.107, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), the commissioner may | ||
| not order the closure of a campus under this section without giving | ||
| the campus the opportunity to operate as a community school under a | ||
| campus turnaround plan as provided by Section 39A.1011 and at least | ||
| two years to implement the campus's community school plan. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 39A.111, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39A.111. CONTINUED UNACCEPTABLE PERFORMANCE RATING. | ||
| (a) If a campus is considered to have an unacceptable performance | ||
| rating for five consecutive school years, the commissioner, subject | ||
| to Section 39A.112, shall order: | ||
| (1) appointment of a board of managers to govern the | ||
| school district as provided by Section 39A.202; or | ||
| (2) closure of the campus. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the commissioner may | ||
| not order the closure of a campus under this section without giving | ||
| the campus the opportunity to operate as a community school under a | ||
| campus turnaround plan as provided by Section 39A.1011 and at least | ||
| two years to implement the campus's community school plan. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2025. | ||
