Tex. Educ. Code § 37.0082 · Subchapter A. ALTERNATIVE SETTINGS FOR BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT
ASSESSMENT OF ACADEMIC GROWTH OF STUDENTS IN DISCIPLINARY ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To assess a student's academic growth during placement in a disciplinary alternative education program, a school district shall administer to a student placed in a program for a period of 90 school days or longer an assessment instrument approved by the commissioner for that purpose. The instrument shall be administered:
(1) initially on placement of the student in the program; and
(2) subsequently on the date of the student's departure from the program, or as near that date as possible.
(b) The assessment instrument required by this section:
(1) must be designed to assess at least a student's basic skills in reading and mathematics;
(2) may be:
(A) comparable to any assessment instrument generally administered to students placed in juvenile justice alternative education programs for a similar purpose; or
(B) based on an appropriate alternative assessment instrument developed by the agency to measure student academic growth; and
(3) is in addition to the assessment instruments required to be administered under Chapter 39.
(c) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to implement this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1240 (H.B. 2532), Sec. 2, eff. June 15, 2007.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.37.htm
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