SUBCHAPTER B ASSESSMENT OF ACADEMIC SKILLS
- Texas Section 39.021 - Essential Skills And Knowledge
The State Board of Education by rule shall establish the essential skills and knowledge that all students should learn to achieve the goals provided under...
- Texas Section 39.022 - Assessment Program
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...
- Texas Section 39.023 - Adoption And Administration Of Instruments
Sec. 39.023. ADOPTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF INSTRUMENTS. Text of subsection effective until on or before September 1, 2015; see note following section for effective date...
- Texas Section 39.02301 - Writing Assessment Study; Pilot Program
(a) During the 2015-2016 school year, the agency, in coordination with the entity that has been contracted to develop or implement assessment instruments under Section...
- Texas Section 39.0231 - Reporting Of Results Of Certain Assessments
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...
- Texas Section 39.02315 - Reporting Results Of Assessment Instruments For Out-of-state Transfer Students
(a) For assessment instruments required to be administered under Section 39.023, the agency shall adopt procedures to ensure that the results of the assessment instruments...
- Texas Section 39.0232 - Use Of End-of-course Assessment Instrument As Placement Instrument; Certain Uses Prohibited
(a) 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...
- Texas Section 39.0233 - Special-purpose Questions Included In End-of-course Assessment Instruments
(a) The agency, in coordination with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt a series of questions to be included in an end-of-course assessment...
- Texas Section 39.0234 - Administration Of Assessment Instruments By Computer
(a) The agency shall ensure that assessment instruments required under Section 39.023 are capable of being administered by computer. The commissioner may not require a...
- Texas Section 39.0235 - Technology Literacy Assessment Pilot Program
(a) In this section, "pilot program" means the technology literacy assessment pilot program. (b) The commissioner by rule shall establish a pilot program in which...
- Texas Section 39.0236 - Study Of Essential Knowledge And Skills And Assessment Instruments
(a) The agency shall conduct a study regarding the essential knowledge and skills of the required curriculum identified by the State Board of Education under...
- Texas Section 39.0238 - Adoption And Administration Of Postsecondary Readiness Assessment Instruments
(a) In addition to other assessment instruments adopted and developed under this subchapter, the agency shall adopt or develop appropriate postsecondary readiness assessment instruments for...
- Texas Section 39.024 - Measure Of College Readiness
(a) In this section, "college readiness" means the level of preparation a student must attain in English language arts and mathematics courses to enroll and...
- Texas Section 39.0241 - Performance Standards
(a) The commissioner shall determine the level of performance considered to be satisfactory on the assessment instruments. (a-1) The commissioner of education, in collaboration with...
- Texas Section 39.025 - Secondary-level Performance Required
Sec. 39.025. SECONDARY-LEVEL PERFORMANCE REQUIRED. (a) The commissioner shall adopt rules requiring a student in the foundation high school program under Section 28.025 to be...
- Texas Section 39.026 - Local Option
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...
- Texas Section 39.0261 - College Preparation Assessments
(a) In addition to the assessment instruments otherwise authorized or required by this subchapter: (1) each school year and at state cost, a school district...
- Texas Section 39.0262 - Administration Of District-required Assessment Instruments In Certain Subject Areas
(a) In a subject area for which assessment instruments are administered under Section 39.023, a school district may not administer locally required assessment instruments designed...
- Texas Section 39.0263 - Administration Of District-required Benchmark Assessment Instruments To Prepare Students For State-administered Assessment Instruments
(a) In this section, "benchmark assessment instrument" means a district-required assessment instrument designed to prepare students for a corresponding state-administered assessment instrument. (b) Except as...
- Texas Section 39.027 - Exemption
(a) A student may be administered an accommodated or alternative assessment instrument or may be granted an exemption from or a postponement of the administration...
- Texas Section 39.028 - Comparison Of State Results To National Results
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...
- Texas Section 39.029 - Migratory Children
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...
- Texas Section 39.030 - Confidentiality; Performance Reports
(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...
- Texas Section 39.0301 - Security In Administration Of Assessment Instruments
(a) The commissioner: (1) shall establish procedures for the administration of assessment instruments adopted or developed under Section 39.023, including procedures designed to ensure the...
- Texas Section 39.0302 - Issuance Of Subpoenas
(a) During an agency investigation or audit of a school district under Section 39.0301(e) or (f), an accreditation investigation under Section 39.057(a)(8) or (14), or...
- Texas Section 39.0303 - Secure Assessment Instruments; Criminal Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if: (1) the person intentionally discloses the contents of any portion of a secure assessment instrument developed or administered...
- Texas Section 39.0304 - Training In Assessment Instrument Administration
(a) To ensure that each administration of assessment instruments under Section 39.023 is valid, reliable, and in compliance with the requirements of this subchapter, the...
- Texas Section 39.031 - Cost
The cost of preparing, administering, or grading the assessment instruments and releasing the question and answer keys under Section 39.023(e) shall be paid from amounts...
- Texas Section 39.032 - Assessment Instrument Standards; Civil Penalty
(a) Repealed by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1210, Sec. 2, eff. June 19, 2009. (b) Repealed by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch....
- Texas Section 39.033 - Voluntary Assessment Of Private School Students
(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)...
- Texas Section 39.034 - Measure Of Annual Improvement In Student Achievement
(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...
- Texas Section 39.035 - Limitation On Field Testing Of Assessment Instruments
(a) Subject to Subsection (b), the agency may conduct field testing of questions for any assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023(a), (b), (c), (d), or...
- Texas Section 39.036 - Vertical Scale For Certain Assessment Instruments
(a) The agency shall develop a vertical scale for assessing student performance on assessment instruments administered under Sections 39.023(a)(1) and (2) in a manner that...
- Texas Section 39.037 - International Assessment Instrument Program
(a) In this section, "program" means the international assessment instrument program. (b) The commissioner shall establish a program under which a participating school district administers...
- Texas Section 39.038 - Restriction On Appointments To Advisory Committees
The commissioner may not appoint a person to a committee or panel that advises the commissioner or agency regarding state accountability systems under this title...
- Texas Section 39.0381 - Auditing And Monitoring Performance Under Contracts For Assessment Instruments
(a) The agency by rule shall develop a comprehensive methodology for auditing and monitoring performance under contracts for services to develop or administer assessment instruments...
SUBCHAPTER C ACCREDITATION
- Texas Section 39.039 - Prohibition On Political Contribution Or Activity By Certain Contractors
(a) A person who is an agent of an entity that has been contracted to develop or implement assessment instruments required under Section 39.023 commits...
- Texas Section 39.051 - Accreditation Status
Accreditation of a school district is determined in accordance with this subchapter. The commissioner by rule shall determine in accordance with this subchapter the criteria...
- Texas Section 39.052 - Determination Of Accreditation Status Or Performance Rating
(a) Each year, the commissioner shall determine the accreditation status of each school district. (b) In determining the accreditation status of a school district, the...
- Texas Section 39.053 - Performance Indicators: Achievement
(a) The commissioner shall adopt a set of indicators of the quality of learning and achievement. The commissioner biennially shall review the indicators for the...
- Texas Section 39.0535 - Temporary Provision: Assignment Of Performance Ratings
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the commissioner shall assign each district and campus a performance rating not later than August 15 of each year. (b)...
- Texas Section 39.054 - Methods And Standards For Evaluating Performance
Sec. 39.054. METHODS AND STANDARDS FOR EVALUATING PERFORMANCE. Text of subsection effective until September 01, 2016 (a) The commissioner shall adopt rules to evaluate school...
- Texas Section 39.0545 - School District Evaluation Of Performance In Community And Student Engagement; Compliance
(a) Each school district shall evaluate the district's performance and the performance of each campus in the district in community and student engagement and in...
- Texas Section 39.0546 - Performance In Community And Student Engagement As Component Of Overall District And Campus Rating
(a) For purposes of including the local evaluation of districts and campuses under Section 39.053(c)(5) and assigning an overall rating under Section 39.054, before the...
- Texas Section 39.0548 - Evaluating Dropout Recovery Schools
(a) For purposes of evaluating performance under Section 39.053(c), the commissioner shall designate as a dropout recovery school a school district or an open-enrollment charter...
- Texas Section 39.055 - Student Ordered By A Juvenile Court Or Student In Residential Facility Not Considered For Accountability Purposes
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code except to the extent otherwise provided under Section 39.054(f), for purposes of determining the performance of a school...
- Texas Section 39.056 - Monitoring Reviews
(a) The commissioner may direct the agency to conduct monitoring reviews and random on-site visits of a school district at any time as authorized by...
- Texas Section 39.057 - Special Accreditation Investigations
Sec. 39.057. SPECIAL ACCREDITATION INVESTIGATIONS. (a) The commissioner may authorize special accreditation investigations to be conducted: (1) when excessive numbers of absences of students eligible...
SUBCHAPTER D FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
- Texas Section 39.058 - Conduct Of Special Accreditation Investigations
(a) The agency shall adopt written procedures for conducting special accreditation investigations under this subchapter, including procedures that allow the agency to obtain information from...
- Texas Section 39.081 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Parent" includes a guardian or other person having lawful control of a student. (2) "System" means a financial accountability rating system...
- Texas Section 39.082 - Development And Implementation
(a) The commissioner shall, in consultation with the comptroller, develop and implement separate financial accountability rating systems for school districts and open-enrollment charter schools in...
- Texas Section 39.0821 - Comptroller Review Of Resource Allocation Practices
(a) The comptroller shall identify school districts and campuses that use resource allocation practices that contribute to high academic achievement and cost-effective operations. In identifying...
- Texas Section 39.0823 - Projected Deficit
(a) If the commissioner, based on the indicators adopted under Section 39.082 or other relevant information, projects a deficit for a school district or open-enrollment...
- Texas Section 39.0824 - Corrective Action Plan
(a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school assigned the lowest rating under Section 39.082 shall submit to the commissioner a corrective action plan to...
- Texas Section 39.083 - Reporting
(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...
- Texas Section 39.085 - Rules
The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary for the implementation and administration of this subchapter. Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 895 (H.B....
SUBCHAPTER E ACCREDITATION INTERVENTIONS AND SANCTIONS
- Texas Section 39.086 - Software Standards
(a) The Department of Information Resources, in cooperation with the commissioner, shall adopt performance and interoperability standards for software used by school districts for financial...
- Texas Section 39.102 - Interventions And Sanctions For Districts
(a) If a school district does not satisfy the accreditation criteria under Section 39.052, the academic performance standards under Section 39.053 or 39.054, or any...
- Texas Section 39.103 - Interventions And Sanctions For Campuses
(a) If a campus performance is below any standard under Section 39.054(e), the commissioner shall take actions, to the extent the commissioner determines necessary, as...
- Texas Section 39.104 - Interventions And Sanctions For Charter Schools
(a) Interventions and sanctions authorized under this chapter for a school district or campus apply in the same manner to an open-enrollment charter school. (b)...
- Texas Section 39.105 - Campus Improvement Plan
(a) This section applies if a campus performance satisfies performance standards under Section 39.054(e) for the current school year but would not satisfy performance standards...
- Texas Section 39.106 - Campus Intervention Team Duties
(a) If a campus performance is below any standard under Section 39.054(e), the commissioner shall assign a campus intervention team. A campus intervention team shall:...
- Texas Section 39.107 - Campus Turnaround Plan, Board Of Managers, Alternative Management, And Closure
(a) After a campus has been identified as unacceptable for two consecutive school years, the commissioner shall order the campus to prepare and submit a...
- Texas Section 39.1071 - Transitional Interventions And Sanctions
(a) For a campus that received an academically unacceptable performance rating for the 2013-2014, 2014-2015, and 2015-2016 school years, the commissioner may apply the interventions...
- Texas Section 39.108 - Annual Review
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...
- Texas Section 39.109 - Acquisition Of Professional Services
In addition to other interventions and sanctions authorized under this subchapter, the commissioner may order a school district or campus to acquire professional services at...
- Texas Section 39.110 - Costs Paid By District
The costs of providing a monitor, conservator, management team, campus intervention team, technical assistance team, managing entity, or service provider under this subchapter shall be...
- Texas Section 39.111 - Conservator Or Management Team
(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)...
- Texas Section 39.112 - Board Of Managers
(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,...
- Texas Section 39.1121 - Appointment Of Board Of Managers For Open-enrollment Charter School; Superintendent
(a) A board of managers appointed for an open-enrollment charter school or a campus of an open-enrollment charter school under this chapter or Chapter 12...
- Texas Section 39.1122 - Compensation Of Board Of Managers For Open-enrollment Charter School And Superintendent
(a) The commissioner may authorize compensation for a member of a board of managers for an open-enrollment charter school or a campus of an open-enrollment...
- Texas Section 39.113 - Campus Intervention Team Members
A campus intervention team appointed under this subchapter may consist of teachers, principals, other educational professionals, and superintendents recognized for excellence in their roles and...
- Texas Section 39.114 - Immunity From Civil Liability
An employee, volunteer, or contractor acting on behalf of the commissioner under this subchapter, or a member of a board of managers appointed by the...
- Texas Section 39.115 - Campus Name Change Prohibited
In reconstituting, repurposing, or imposing any other intervention or sanction on a campus under this subchapter, the commissioner may not require that the name of...
SUBCHAPTER F PROCEDURES FOR CHALLENGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY DETERMINATION, INTERVENTION, OR SANCTION
- Texas Section 39.117 - Special Student Recovery Program
(a) This section applies only to a school district with a student enrollment of at least 60,000 that is located in a county on the...
- Texas Section 39.151 - Review By Commissioner: Accountability Determination
(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...
SUBCHAPTER G DISTINCTION DESIGNATIONS
- Texas Section 39.152 - Review By State Office Of Administrative Hearings: Sanctions
(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...
- Texas Section 39.201 - Distinction Designations
(a) Not later than August 8 of each year, the commissioner shall award distinction designations for outstanding performance as provided by this subchapter. A distinction...
- Texas Section 39.2011 - Applicability To Charter Schools
In this subchapter: (1) a district includes an open-enrollment charter school that operates on more than one campus; and (2) a campus includes an open-enrollment...
- Texas Section 39.202 - Academic Distinction Designation For Districts And Campuses
The commissioner by rule shall establish an academic distinction designation for districts and campuses for outstanding performance in attainment of postsecondary readiness. The commissioner shall...
- Texas Section 39.203 - Campus Distinction Designations
(a) The commissioner shall award a campus a distinction designation for outstanding performance in improvement in student achievement if the campus is ranked in the...
SUBCHAPTER H ADDITIONAL REWARDS
- Texas Section 39.204 - Campus Distinction Designation Criteria; Committees
(a) The commissioner by rule shall establish: (1) standards for considering campuses for distinction designations under Section 39.203(c); and (2) methods for awarding distinction designations...
- Texas Section 39.232 - Excellence Exemptions
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school campus or district that is rated exemplary under Subchapter G is exempt from requirements and prohibitions...
- Texas Section 39.233 - Recognition Of High School Completion And Success And College Readiness Programs
(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...
- Texas Section 39.234 - Use Of High School Allotment
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school district or campus must use funds allocated under Section 42.160 to: (1) implement or administer a...
- Texas Section 39.235 - Innovation Grant Initiative For Middle, Junior High, And High School Campuses
(a) From funds appropriated for that purpose, the commissioner may establish a grant program under which grants are awarded to middle, junior high, and high...
SUBCHAPTER I SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL AWARDS
- Texas Section 39.236 - Gifted And Talented Standards
The commissioner shall adopt standards to evaluate school district programs for gifted and talented students to determine whether a district operates a program for gifted...
- Texas Section 39.261 - Creation Of System
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...
- Texas Section 39.262 - Types Of Awards
(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...
- Texas Section 39.263 - Awards
(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...
- Texas Section 39.264 - Use Of Awards
(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...
- Texas Section 39.265 - Funding
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...
SUBCHAPTER J PARENT AND EDUCATOR REPORTS
- Texas Section 39.266 - Confidentiality
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...
- Texas Section 39.301 - Additional Performance Indicators: Reporting
(a) In addition to the indicators adopted under Section 39.053, the commissioner shall adopt indicators of the quality of learning for the purpose of preparing...
- Texas Section 39.302 - Report To District: Comparisons For Annual Performance Assessment
(a) The agency shall report to each school district the comparisons of student performance made under Section 39.034. (b) To the extent practicable, the agency...
- Texas Section 39.303 - Report To Parents
(a) The school district a student attends shall provide a record of the comparisons made under Section 39.034 and provided to the district under Section...
- Texas Section 39.304 - Teacher Report Card
(a) Each school district shall prepare a report of the comparisons made under Section 39.034 and provided to the district under Section 39.302 and provide...
- Texas Section 39.305 - Campus Report Card
(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...
- Texas Section 39.306 - Performance Report
(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...
- Texas Section 39.307 - Uses Of Performance Report
The information required to be reported under Section 39.306 shall be: (1) the subject of public hearings or meetings required under Sections 11.252, 11.253, and...
- Texas Section 39.308 - Annual Audit Of Dropout Records; Report
(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...
SUBCHAPTER K REPORTS BY TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
- Texas Section 39.309 - Texas School Accountability Dashboard
(a) The agency shall develop and maintain an Internet website, separate from the agency's Internet website, to be known as the Texas School Accountability Dashboard...
- Texas Section 39.331 - General Requirements
(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...
- Texas Section 39.332 - Comprehensive Biennial Report
(a) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, the agency shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of...
- Texas Section 39.333 - Regional And District Level Report
As part of the comprehensive biennial report under Section 39.332, the agency shall submit a regional and district level report covering the preceding two school...
SUBCHAPTER L NOTICE OF PERFORMANCE
- Texas Section 39.334 - Technology Report
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...
- Texas Section 39.361 - Notice In Student Grade Report
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: (1)...
- Texas Section 39.362 - Notice On District Website
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...
SUBCHAPTER M HIGH SCHOOL COMPLETION AND SUCCESS INITIATIVE
- Texas Section 39.363 - Notice On Agency Website
Not later than October 1 of each year, the agency shall make the following information available to the public on the agency's Internet website: (1)...
- Texas Section 39.401 - Definition
In this subchapter, "council" means the High School Completion and Success Initiative Council. Redesignated by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 895 (H.B. 3), Sec....
- Texas Section 39.402 - High School Completion And Success Initiative Council
(a) The High School Completion and Success Initiative Council is established to identify strategic priorities for and make recommendations to improve the effectiveness, coordination, and...
- Texas Section 39.403 - Terms
Members of the council appointed under Section 39.402(b)(3) serve terms of two years and may be reappointed for additional terms. Redesignated by Acts 2009, 81st...
- Texas Section 39.404 - Presiding Officer
The commissioner of education serves as the presiding officer of the council. Redesignated by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 895 (H.B. 3), Sec. 59,...
- Texas Section 39.405 - Compensation And Reimbursement
A member of the council is not entitled to compensation for service on the council but is entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses...
- Texas Section 39.406 - Council Staff And Funding
(a) Except as otherwise provided, staff members of the agency, with the assistance of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, shall provide administrative support for...
- Texas Section 39.407 - Strategic Plan
(a) The council shall adopt a strategic plan under this subchapter to: (1) specify strategies to identify, support, and expand programs to improve high school...
- Texas Section 39.408 - Eligibility Criteria For Certain Grant Programs
A school district or campus is eligible to participate in programs under Sections 21.4541, 29.095, 29.096, 29.097, and 29.098 if the district or campus exhibited...
- Texas Section 39.409 - Private Foundation Partnerships
(a) The commissioner of education or the commissioner of higher education, as appropriate, and the council may coordinate with private foundations that have made a...
- Texas Section 39.410 - Grant Program Evaluation
(a) The commissioner of education shall annually set aside not more than five percent of the funds appropriated for high school completion and success to...
- Texas Section 39.411 - Council Recommendations
(a) Based on the strategic plan adopted under this subchapter, the council shall make recommendations to the commissioner of education or the commissioner of higher...
- Texas Section 39.412 - Funding Provided To School Districts
From funds appropriated, the commissioner of education may provide funding to school districts to permit a school district to obtain technical assistance in preparing a...
- Texas Section 39.413 - Funding For Certain Programs
(a) From funds appropriated, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall allocate $8.75 million each year to establish mathematics, science, and technology teacher preparation academies...
- Texas Section 39.414 - Private Funding
The commissioner of education or the commissioner of higher education, as appropriate, may accept gifts, grants, or donations to fund a grant administered under this...
- Texas Section 39.415 - Reports
(a) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, the agency shall prepare and deliver a report to the legislature that recommends any statutory...
SUBCHAPTER N TEXAS COMMISSION ON NEXT GENERATION ASSESSMENTS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
- Texas Section 39.416 - Rules
The commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education shall adopt rules as necessary to administer this subchapter and any programs under the authority...
- Texas Section 39.501 - Definition
In this subchapter, "commission" means the Texas Commission on Next Generation Assessments and Accountability. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1094 (H.B. 2804),...
- Texas Section 39.502 - Texas Commission On Next Generation Assessments And Accountability
(a) The Texas Commission on Next Generation Assessments and Accountability is established to develop and make recommendations for new systems of student assessment and public...
- Texas Section 39.503 - Presiding Officer
The governor shall designate the presiding officer of the commission. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1094 (H.B. 2804), Sec. 8, eff. June...
- Texas Section 39.504 - Compensation And Reimbursement
A member of the commission is not entitled to compensation for service on the commission but is entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses...
- Texas Section 39.505 - Administrative Support And Funding
(a) Staff members of the agency shall provide administrative support for the commission. (b) Funding for the administrative and operational expenses of the commission shall...
- Texas Section 39.506 - Recommendations
The commission shall develop recommendations under this subchapter to address: (1) the purpose of a state accountability system and the role of student assessment in...
- Texas Section 39.507 - Report
(a) The commission shall prepare and deliver a report to the governor and the legislature that recommends statutory changes to improve systems of student assessment...
- Texas Section 39.508 - Public Meetings And Public Information
(a) The commission may hold public meetings as needed to fulfill its duties under this subchapter. (b) The commission is subject to Chapters 551 and...
- Texas Section 39.509 - Commission Abolished; Expiration Of Subchapter
(a) The commission is abolished January 1, 2017. (b) This subchapter expires January 1, 2017. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1094 (H.B....