Texas Education Code - Section 11.252. District-Level Planning And Decision-Making
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§ 11.252. DISTRICT-LEVEL PLANNING AND
DECISION-MAKING. (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 academic excellence indicators adopted
under Section 39.051. The district improvement plan must include
provisions for:
(1) a comprehensive needs assessment addressing
district student performance on the academic excellence
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 academic excellence 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, such as suicide prevention, conflict
resolution, violence prevention, or 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
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; and
(8) formative evaluation criteria for determining
periodically whether strategies are resulting in intended
improvement of student performance.
(b) A district's plan for the improvement of student
performance is not filed with the agency, but the district must make
the plan available to the agency on request.
(c) In a district that has only one campus, the district-
and campus-level committees may be one committee and the district
and campus plans may be one plan.
(d) At least every two years, each district shall evaluate
the effectiveness of the district's decision-making and planning
policies, procedures, and staff development activities related to
district- and campus-level decision-making and planning to ensure
that they are effectively structured to positively impact student
performance.
(d-1) Expired.
(e) The district-level committee established under Section
11.251 shall hold at least one public meeting per year. The
required meeting shall be held after receipt of the annual district
performance report from the agency for the purpose of discussing
the performance of the district and the district performance
objectives. District policy and procedures must be established to
ensure that systematic communications measures are in place to
periodically obtain broad-based community, parent, and staff input
and to provide information to those persons regarding the
recommendations of the district-level committee. This section does
not create a new cause of action or require collective bargaining.
(f) A superintendent shall regularly consult the
district-level committee in the planning, operation, supervision,
and evaluation of the district educational program.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1202, § 2, eff. June 18,
1999; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1590, § 6, eff. June 19, 1999;
Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1261, § 7, eff. June 15, 2001.
Section: 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 11.351
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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