Bill Text: TX SB2285 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to challenges by school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to accountability determinations.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB2285 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2285-Comm_Sub.html
By: Fallon | S.B. No. 2285 | |
(Johnson of Harris) | ||
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relating to challenges by school districts and open-enrollment | ||
charter schools to accountability determinations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.151, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c-1), (c-2), and | ||
(c-3) to read as follows: | ||
(b) The rules under Subsection (a) must provide for the | ||
commissioner to appoint a committee to make recommendations to the | ||
commissioner on a challenge made to an agency decision relating to | ||
an academic performance rating or determination or financial | ||
accountability rating. The committee shall review the challenge | ||
regardless of the issue identified in the challenge by the school | ||
district or open-enrollment charter school. The commissioner may | ||
not appoint an agency employee as a member of the committee. | ||
(c-1) The commissioner may not limit a challenge relating to | ||
a data or calculation error if the school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school demonstrates in writing that the | ||
error was identified before July 1 of the year ratings are released, | ||
even if the challenge demonstrates the data or calculation error: | ||
(1) is attributable to the school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school; or | ||
(2) caused the district or school to have a lower | ||
academic or financial accountability rating. | ||
(c-2) If a challenge described by Subsection (c-1) | ||
demonstrates that a data or calculation error caused the district | ||
or open-enrollment charter school to have a lower academic or | ||
financial accountability rating, the commissioner shall: | ||
(1) assign the district or school the corrected | ||
rating; or | ||
(2) indicate that the district or school will not be | ||
rated for that school year. | ||
(c-3) For a year in which a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school is not rated under Subsection | ||
(c-2)(2), that school year is not: | ||
(1) included in calculating consecutive school years | ||
under Sections 12.1141(d) and 12.115(c) and Subchapter C, Chapter | ||
39, and Chapter 39A; or | ||
(2) considered a break in consecutive school years of | ||
unacceptable ratings for purposes of sanctions or interventions | ||
under Sections 12.1141(d) and 12.115(c) and Subchapter C, Chapter | ||
39, and Chapter 39A. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
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, 2019. |