Texas Education Code - Section 13.054. Academically Unacceptable School Districts
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§ 13.054. ACADEMICALLY UNACCEPTABLE SCHOOL
DISTRICTS. (a) The commissioner by order may annex to one or more
adjoining districts a school district that has been rated as
academically unacceptable for a period of two years.
(b) The governing board of a district to which territory of
an academically unacceptable district is annexed is the governing
board for the new district.
(c) The order of the commissioner shall define by legal
boundary description the territory of the new district as enlarged.
(d) Title to the real property of the academically
unacceptable district vests in the district to which the property
is annexed. Each district to which territory is annexed assumes and
is liable for any portion of the academically unacceptable
district's indebtedness that is allocated to the receiving district
under Section 13.004.
(e) Before the commissioner orders an annexation under this
section, the commissioner shall investigate the educational and
financial impact of the annexation on the receiving district. The
commissioner may order the annexation only if the commissioner
finds that the annexation will not substantially impair the ability
of the receiving district to educate the students located in the
district before the annexation and to meet its financial
obligations incurred before the annexation.
(f) For five years beginning with the school year in which
the annexation occurs, the commissioner shall annually adjust the
local fund assignment of a district to which territory is annexed
under this section by multiplying the enlarged district's local
fund assignment computed under Section 42.252 by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of students residing in the
district preceding the date of the annexation and the denominator
of which is the number of students residing in the district as
enlarged on the date of the annexation.
(g) A district to which territory is annexed under this
section is entitled to additional state aid equal to the amount by
which the annual debt service required to meet the indebtedness
incurred by the district due to the annexation exceeds the
additional amount of state aid that results from the adjustment
under Subsection (f), if any. In determining the amount of annual
debt service required, the estimated tax levy from applying the
receiving district's current debt service tax rate, if any, to the
territory that has been annexed shall be deducted.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
Section: 13.007 13.008 13.009 13.010 13.051 13.052 13.053 13.054 13.101 13.102 13.103 13.104 13.105 13.151 13.152
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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