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Texas Education Code - Chapter 39 Public School System AccountabilityLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Education Code > Texas Education Code - Chapter 39 Public School System Accountability Sponsored LinksThe State Board of Education by rule shall establish the essential skills and knowledge that all students should learn to achieve the goals provided under ... The State Board of Education by rule shall create and implement a statewide assessment program that is knowledge- and skills-based to ensure school accountability for ... (a) The agency shall adopt or develop appropriate criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess essential knowledge and skills in reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, and ... The agency shall ensure that each assessment instrument administered in accordance with Section 28.0211 is scored and that the results are returned to the appropriate ... To the extent practicable, the agency shall ensure that any high school end-of-course assessment instrument developed by the agency is developed in such a manner ... (a) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, the State Board of Education shall determine the level of performance considered to be satisfactory on the ... (a) A student may not receive a high school diploma until the student has performed satisfactorily on the secondary exit-level assessment instruments for English language ... In addition to the assessment instruments adopted by the agency and administered by the State Board of Education, a school district may adopt and administer ... (a) A student may be exempted from the administration of an assessment instrument under: (1) Section 39.023(a) or (b) if the student is eligible for ... The state assessment program shall obtain nationally comparative results for the subject areas and grade levels for which criterion-referenced assessment instruments are adopted under Section ... The State Board of Education by rule may provide alternate dates for the administration of the assessment instruments to a student who is a migratory ... (a) In adopting academic skills assessment instruments under this subchapter, the State Board of Education or a school district shall ensure the security of the ... (a) The cost of preparing, administering, or grading the assessment instruments shall be paid from the funds allotted under Section 42.152, and each district shall ... (a) A company or organization may not distribute to, sell to, or grade for the same school district the same form of an assessment instrument ... (a) Under an agreement with the agency, a private school may administer an assessment instrument adopted under this subchapter to students at the school. (b) ... (a) The commissioner shall determine a method by which the agency may measure annual improvement in student achievement from one school year to the next ... (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt a set of indicators of the quality of learning on a campus. The State Board of Education ... (a) Each school year, the agency shall prepare and distribute to each school district a report card for each campus. The campus report cards must ... (a) Each board of trustees shall publish an annual report describing the educational performance of the district and of each campus in the district that ... The information required to be reported under Section 39.053 shall be: (1) the subject of public hearings or meetings required under Sections 11.252, 11.253, and ... (a) The commissioner shall develop a process for auditing school district dropout records electronically. The commissioner shall also develop a system and standards for review ... (a) Accreditation of a school district is determined in accordance with this section. The commissioner by rule shall define the following accreditation statuses: (1) accredited; ... (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to evaluate the performance of school districts and to assign to each district a performance rating ... (a) In addition to district and campus performance ratings reported under Section 39.072, the commissioner shall develop a gold performance rating program based on enhanced ... (a) The agency shall annually review the performance of each district and campus on the indicators adopted under Sections 39.051(b)(1) through (8) and determine if ... (a) The commissioner may: (1) direct the agency to conduct on-site investigations at any time to answer any questions concerning a program, including special education, ... (a) The commissioner shall authorize special accreditation investigations to be conducted: (1) when excessive numbers of absences of students eligible to be tested on state ... (a) The agency shall adopt written procedures for conducting on-site investigations under this subchapter. The agency shall make the procedures available to the complainant, the ... The Texas Successful Schools Awards System is created to recognize and reward those schools and school districts that demonstrate progress or success in achieving the ... (a) The governor may present a financial award to the schools or districts that the commissioner determines have demonstrated the highest levels of sustained success ... (a) The criteria that the commissioner shall use to select successful schools and districts must be related to the goals in Section 4.002 and must ... (a) In determining the use of a monetary award received under this subchapter, a school or district shall give priority to academic enhancement purposes. The ... The award system may be funded by donations, grants, or legislative appropriations. The commissioner may solicit and receive grants and donations for the purpose of ... All information and reports received by the commissioner under this subchapter from schools or school districts deemed confidential under Chapter 552, Government Code, are confidential ... The State Board of Education shall develop a plan for recognizing and rewarding school districts and campuses that are rated as exemplary or recognized and ... (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school campus or district that is rated exemplary is exempt from requirements and prohibitions imposed under this ... (a) The agency shall: (1) develop standards for evaluating the success and cost-effectiveness of high school completion and success and college readiness programs implemented under ... (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school district or campus must use funds allocated under Section 42.2516(b)(3) to: (1) implement or administer a ... (a) If a school district does not satisfy the accreditation criteria under Section 39.071, the academic performance standards under Section 39.072, or any financial accountability ... If a campus performance is below any standard under Section 39.073(b), the campus is considered an academically unacceptable campus. The commissioner may permit the campus ... (a) Sanctions authorized under this chapter for a school district or campus apply in the same manner to an open-enrollment charter school. (b) The commissioner ... (a) If a campus is rated academically acceptable for the current school year but would be rated as academically unacceptable if performance standards to be ... (a) A campus intervention team shall: (1) conduct a comprehensive on-site evaluation of the campus to determine the cause for the campus's low performance and ... (a) If a campus has been identified as academically unacceptable for two consecutive school years, including the current school year, the commissioner shall order the ... Text of section effective until September 1, 2008 For the 2006-2007 school year, the commissioner shall assign a campus intervention team or a technical ... (a) A campus may be subject to this section if the campus has been identified as academically unacceptable under Section 39.132 and the commissioner orders ... The commissioner shall review annually the performance of a district or campus subject to this subchapter to determine the appropriate actions to be implemented under ... In addition to other sanctions authorized under Sections 39.131 and 39.132, the commissioner may order a school district or campus to acquire professional services at ... The costs of providing a monitor, conservator, management team, campus intervention team, technical assistance team, managing entity under Section 39.1327, or service provider under Section ... (a) The commissioner shall clearly define the powers and duties of a conservator or management team appointed to oversee the operations of the district. (b) ... (a) A board of managers may exercise all of the powers and duties assigned to a board of trustees of a school district by law, ... A special campus intervention team appointed under this subchapter may consist of teachers, principals, other educational professionals, and superintendents recognized for excellence in their roles ... An employee, volunteer, or contractor acting on behalf of the commissioner under this subchapter is immune from civil liability to the same extent as a ... (a) Each report required by this subchapter must: (1) unless otherwise specified, contain summary information and analysis only, with an indication that the agency will ... (a) Not later than December 1 of each year, the agency shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the ... The agency shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, each member of the legislature, the ... The agency shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, each member of the legislature, the ... Not later than December 1 of each odd-numbered year, the agency shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the ... In this subchapter: (1) "Parent" includes a guardian or other person having lawful control of a student. (2) "System" means the financial accountability rating system. ... (a) The commissioner shall, in consultation with the comptroller, develop and implement a financial accountability rating system for school districts in this state that: (1) ... (a) The commissioner shall develop, as part of the system, a reporting procedure under which: (1) each school district is required to prepare and distribute ... The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary for the implementation and administration of this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 914, § 1, ... The first written notice of a student's performance that a school district gives during a school year as required by Section 28.022(a)(2) must include the ... Not later than the 10th day after the first day of instruction of each school year, a school district that maintains an Internet website shall ... (a) The commissioner by rule shall provide a process for a school district or open-enrollment charter school to challenge an agency decision made under this ... (a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school that intends to challenge a decision by the commissioner under this chapter to close the district or ... Last modified: August 11, 2007 |