Bill Text: TX SB2201 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to local goals for public education and governance of local school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Left pending in committee [SB2201 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2201-Introduced.html
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By: Fallon | S.B. No. 2201 |
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relating to local goals for public education and governance of | ||
local school districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Sections 11.0595 and 11.0596 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 11.0595. TERM LIMITS. The board of trustees of an | ||
independent school district by resolution may: | ||
(1) limit the number of terms that trustees may serve, | ||
subject to Section 11.0596, if applicable; or | ||
(2) remove a limit on the number of terms that trustees | ||
may serve other than a limit prescribed by Section 11.0596, if | ||
applicable. | ||
Sec. 11.0596. TERM LIMITS FOR TRUSTEES OF CERTAIN SCHOOL | ||
DISTRICTS. (a) This section applies only to a school district with | ||
an enrollment of 20,000 or more students. | ||
(b) A trustee of a school district to which this section | ||
applies may serve for a maximum of, as applicable: | ||
(1) three three-year terms; or | ||
(2) two four-year terms. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 11.252(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Each school district shall have a district improvement | ||
plan that is developed, evaluated, and revised annually, in | ||
accordance with district policy, by the superintendent with the | ||
assistance of the district-level committee established under | ||
Section 11.251. The purpose of the district improvement plan is to | ||
guide district and campus staff in the improvement of student | ||
performance for all student groups in order to attain state | ||
standards in respect to the achievement indicators adopted under | ||
Section 39.053(c). The district improvement plan must be aligned | ||
with the student outcomes plans developed under Section 11.2522 and | ||
include provisions for: | ||
(1) a comprehensive needs assessment addressing | ||
district student performance on the achievement indicators, and | ||
other appropriate measures of performance, that are disaggregated | ||
by all student groups served by the district, including categories | ||
of ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sex, and populations served by | ||
special programs, including students in special education programs | ||
under Subchapter A, Chapter 29; | ||
(2) measurable district performance objectives for | ||
all appropriate achievement indicators for all student | ||
populations, including students in special education programs | ||
under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, and other measures of student | ||
performance that may be identified through the comprehensive needs | ||
assessment; | ||
(3) strategies for improvement of student performance | ||
that include: | ||
(A) instructional methods for addressing the | ||
needs of student groups not achieving their full potential; | ||
(B) methods for addressing the needs of students | ||
for special programs, including: | ||
(i) suicide prevention programs, in | ||
accordance with Subchapter O-1, Chapter 161, Health and Safety | ||
Code, which includes a parental or guardian notification procedure; | ||
(ii) conflict resolution programs; | ||
(iii) violence prevention programs; and | ||
(iv) dyslexia treatment programs; | ||
(C) dropout reduction; | ||
(D) integration of technology in instructional | ||
and administrative programs; | ||
(E) discipline management; | ||
(F) staff development for professional staff of | ||
the district; | ||
(G) career education to assist students in | ||
developing the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary for a | ||
broad range of career opportunities; and | ||
(H) accelerated education; | ||
(4) strategies for providing to middle school, junior | ||
high school, and high school students, those students' teachers and | ||
school counselors, and those students' parents information about: | ||
(A) higher education admissions and financial | ||
aid opportunities; | ||
(B) the TEXAS grant program and the Teach for | ||
Texas grant program established under Chapter 56; | ||
(C) the need for students to make informed | ||
curriculum choices to be prepared for success beyond high school; | ||
and | ||
(D) sources of information on higher education | ||
admissions and financial aid; | ||
(5) resources needed to implement identified | ||
strategies; | ||
(6) staff responsible for ensuring the accomplishment | ||
of each strategy; | ||
(7) timelines for ongoing monitoring of the | ||
implementation of each improvement strategy; | ||
(8) formative evaluation criteria for determining | ||
periodically whether strategies are resulting in intended | ||
improvement of student performance; and | ||
(9) the policy under Section 38.0041 addressing sexual | ||
abuse and other maltreatment of children. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 11.2522 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 11.2522. STUDENT OUTCOMES PLANS. (a) In addition to | ||
the district improvement plan developed under Section 11.252, each | ||
school district shall develop one-year, three-year, and five-year | ||
plans for improving student outcomes in reading, mathematics, and | ||
any other area identified by the district. | ||
(b) Each plan developed under Subsection (a) must identify | ||
student achievement goals for the district and each campus in the | ||
district for each of the following demographic categories: | ||
(1) household income; | ||
(2) native language; | ||
(3) ethnicity; | ||
(4) gender; and | ||
(5) any other demographic category identified by the | ||
commissioner. | ||
(c) Not later than September 1 of each year, each school | ||
district shall submit to the agency and post on the district's | ||
Internet website a report assessing the progress of the district | ||
and each campus in the district toward achieving the goals | ||
identified in the district's plans developed under Subsection (a). | ||
(d) The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
implement this section. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 11.253(d), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) Each campus improvement plan must be aligned with the | ||
student outcomes plans developed under Section 11.2522 and: | ||
(1) assess the academic achievement for each student | ||
in the school using the achievement indicator system as described | ||
by Section 39.053; | ||
(2) set the campus performance objectives based on the | ||
achievement indicator system, including objectives for special | ||
needs populations, including students in special education | ||
programs under Subchapter A, Chapter 29; | ||
(3) identify how the campus goals will be met for each | ||
student; | ||
(4) determine the resources needed to implement the | ||
plan; | ||
(5) identify staff needed to implement the plan; | ||
(6) set timelines for reaching the goals; | ||
(7) measure progress toward the performance | ||
objectives periodically to ensure that the plan is resulting in | ||
academic improvement; | ||
(8) include goals and methods for violence prevention | ||
and intervention on campus; | ||
(9) provide for a program to encourage parental | ||
involvement at the campus; and | ||
(10) if the campus is an elementary, middle, or junior | ||
high school, set goals and objectives for the coordinated health | ||
program at the campus based on: | ||
(A) student fitness assessment data, including | ||
any data from research-based assessments such as the school health | ||
index assessment and planning tool created by the federal Centers | ||
for Disease Control and Prevention; | ||
(B) student academic performance data; | ||
(C) student attendance rates; | ||
(D) the percentage of students who are | ||
educationally disadvantaged; | ||
(E) the use and success of any method to ensure | ||
that students participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity | ||
as required by Section 28.002(l); and | ||
(F) any other indicator recommended by the local | ||
school health advisory council. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 12.104(b), Education Code, as amended by | ||
Chapters 324 (S.B. 1488), 522 (S.B. 179), and 735 (S.B. 1153), Acts | ||
of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is reenacted and | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) An open-enrollment charter school is subject to: | ||
(1) a provision of this title establishing a criminal | ||
offense; and | ||
(2) a prohibition, restriction, or requirement, as | ||
applicable, imposed by this title or a rule adopted under this | ||
title, relating to: | ||
(A) the Public Education Information Management | ||
System (PEIMS) to the extent necessary to monitor compliance with | ||
this subchapter as determined by the commissioner; | ||
(B) criminal history records under Subchapter C, | ||
Chapter 22; | ||
(C) reading instruments and accelerated reading | ||
instruction programs under Section 28.006; | ||
(D) accelerated instruction under Section | ||
28.0211; | ||
(E) high school graduation requirements under | ||
Section 28.025; | ||
(F) special education programs under Subchapter | ||
A, Chapter 29; | ||
(G) bilingual education under Subchapter B, | ||
Chapter 29; | ||
(H) prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E | ||
or E-1, Chapter 29; | ||
(I) extracurricular activities under Section | ||
33.081; | ||
(J) discipline management practices or behavior | ||
management techniques under Section 37.0021; | ||
(K) health and safety under Chapter 38; | ||
(L) public school accountability under | ||
Subchapters B, C, D, F, G, and J, Chapter 39, and Chapter 39A; | ||
(M) the requirement under Section 21.006 to | ||
report an educator's misconduct; | ||
(N) intensive programs of instruction under | ||
Section 28.0213; | ||
(O) the right of a school employee to report a | ||
crime, as provided by Section 37.148; [ |
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(P) bullying prevention policies and procedures | ||
under Section 37.0832; | ||
(Q) the right of a school under Section 37.0052 | ||
to place a student who has engaged in certain bullying behavior in a | ||
disciplinary alternative education program or to expel the student; | ||
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(R) the right under Section 37.0151 to report to | ||
local law enforcement certain conduct constituting assault or | ||
harassment; | ||
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regarding the provision of assistance for learning difficulties to | ||
the parent's child as provided by Sections 26.004(b)(11) and | ||
26.0081(c) and (d); and | ||
(T) the student outcomes plans under Section | ||
11.2522. | ||
SECTION 6. A term of office that begins before the effective | ||
date of this Act is not counted in determining whether a trustee is | ||
eligible to serve on the board of trustees of a school district | ||
under Section 11.0596, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 7. Sections 11.252, 11.253, and 12.104, Education | ||
Code, as amended by this Act, and Section 11.2522, Education Code, | ||
as added by this Act, apply beginning with the 2019-2020 school | ||
year. | ||
SECTION 8. Not later than September 1, 2020, each school | ||
district shall submit and post on the district's Internet website | ||
the initial report required under Section 11.2522, Education Code, | ||
as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 9. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
over another Act of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, | ||
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
codes. | ||
SECTION 10. 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, 2019. |