Texas Education Code - Section 11.251. Planning And Decision-Making Process
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§ 11.251. PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESS. (a) The
board of trustees of each independent school district shall ensure
that a district improvement plan and improvement plans for each
campus are developed, reviewed, and revised annually for the
purpose of improving the performance of all students. The board
shall annually approve district and campus performance objectives
and shall ensure that the district and campus plans:
(1) are mutually supportive to accomplish the
identified objectives; and
(2) at a minimum, support the state goals and
objectives under Chapter 4.
(b) The board shall adopt a policy to establish a district-
and campus-level planning and decision-making process that will
involve the professional staff of the district, parents, and
community members in establishing and reviewing the district's and
campuses' educational plans, goals, performance objectives, and
major classroom instructional programs. The board shall establish
a procedure under which meetings are held regularly by district-
and campus-level planning and decision-making committees that
include representative professional staff, parents of students
enrolled in the district, business representatives, and community
members. The committees shall include a business representative
without regard to whether the representative resides in the
district or whether the business the person represents is located
in the district. The board, or the board's designee, shall
periodically meet with the district-level committee to review the
district-level committee's deliberations.
(c) For purposes of establishing the composition of
committees under this section:
(1) a person who stands in parental relation to a
student is considered a parent;
(2) a parent who is an employee of the school district
is not considered a parent representative on the committee;
(3) a parent is not considered a representative of
community members on the committee; and
(4) community members must reside in the district and
must be at least 18 years of age.
(d) The board shall also ensure that an administrative
procedure is provided to clearly define the respective roles and
responsibilities of the superintendent, central office staff,
principals, teachers, district-level committee members, and
campus-level committee members in the areas of planning, budgeting,
curriculum, staffing patterns, staff development, and school
organization. The board shall ensure that the district-level
planning and decision-making committee will be actively involved in
establishing the administrative procedure that defines the
respective roles and responsibilities pertaining to planning and
decision-making at the district and campus levels.
(e) The board shall adopt a procedure, consistent with
Section 21.407(a), for the professional staff in the district to
nominate and elect the professional staff representatives who shall
meet with the board or the board designee as required under this
section. At least two-thirds of the elected professional staff
representatives must be classroom teachers. The remaining staff
representatives shall include both campus- and district-level
professional staff members. Board policy must provide procedures
for:
(1) the selection of parents to the district-level and
campus-level committees; and
(2) the selection of community members and business
representatives to serve on the district-level committee in a
manner that provides for appropriate representation of the
community's diversity.
(f) The district policy must provide that all pertinent
federal planning requirements are addressed through the district-
and campus-level planning process.
(g) This section does not:
(1) prohibit the board from conducting meetings with
teachers or groups of teachers other than the meetings described by
this section;
(2) prohibit the board from establishing policies
providing avenues for input from others, including students or
paraprofessional staff, in district- or campus-level planning and
decision-making;
(3) limit or affect the power of the board to govern
the public schools; or
(4) create a new cause of action or require collective
bargaining.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 61, § 1, eff. May 16, 2003.
Section: 11.167 11.168 11.168 11.170 11.201 11.202 11.203 11.251 11.252 11.253 11.254 11.255 11.301 11.302 11.303
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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