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Section 48.264. Adjustment for Certain Districts With Early High School Graduation Programs

TX Educ Code § 48.264 (2019) (N/A)
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Sec. 48.264. ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS WITH EARLY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION PROGRAMS. (a) As a pilot program to enable the state to evaluate the benefit of providing additional funding at the prekindergarten level for low-income students, the commissioner shall provide prekindergarten funding in accordance with this section to a school district located in a county that borders the United Mexican States and the Gulf of Mexico.

(b) The commissioner shall provide funding for a school district's prekindergarten program on a half-day basis for a number of low-income prekindergarten students equal to twice the number of students who received, as a result of participation in an early high school graduation program operated by the district, a high school diploma from the district during the preceding school year after three years of secondary school attendance.

(c) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement this section.

(d) This section expires September 1, 2023.

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 694 (H.B. 731), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.

Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 42.2527 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.042, eff. September 1, 2019.

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