Sec. 39A.0545. NEEDS IMPROVEMENT RATING. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, if a school district or campus is assigned an overall or domain performance rating of D:

(1) the commissioner shall order the district or campus to develop and implement a targeted improvement plan approved by the board of trustees of the district; and

(2) the interventions and sanctions provided by this chapter based on failure to satisfy performance standards under Section 39.054(e) apply to the district or campus only as provided by this section.

(b) The interventions and sanctions provided by this chapter based on failure to satisfy performance standards under Section 39.054(e) apply to a district or campus ordered to develop and implement a targeted improvement plan under Subsection (a) only if the district or campus is assigned:

(1) an overall or domain performance rating of F; or

(2) an overall performance rating of D as provided by Subsection (c).

(c) If a school district or campus is assigned an overall performance rating of D for a school year after the district or campus is ordered to develop and implement a targeted improvement plan under Subsection (a), the commissioner shall implement interventions and sanctions that apply to an unacceptable campus and those interventions and sanctions shall continue for each consecutive school year thereafter in which the campus is assigned an overall performance rating of D.

(d) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section.

Amended by:

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 324 (S.B. 1488), Sec. 21.002(1), eff. September 1, 2017.

Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 807 (H.B. 22), Sec. 17, eff. June 15, 2017.

Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 39.101 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 467 (H.B. 4170), Sec. 5.024, eff. September 1, 2019.