Tex. Educ. Code § 37.0082

Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 37.0082 - Assessment of Academic Growth of Students in Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs
(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.

Tex. Educ. Code § 37.0082

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1240, Sec. 2, eff. 6/15/2007.