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Texas Education Code - EDUC § 37.0082. Assessment of Academic Growth of Students in Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(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.

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