89R13866 AND-D
	By: Johnson	H.B. No. 3939

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to student input for school district and campus
	improvement plans.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 11.251, Education Code, is amended by
	amending Subsections (b) and (g) and adding Subsection (b-1) to
	read as follows:
	(b)  The board shall adopt a policy to establish a district-
	and campus-level planning and decision-making process that will
	involve the professional staff of the district, parents, students,
	and community members in establishing and reviewing the district's
	and campuses' educational plans, goals, performance objectives,
	and major classroom instructional programs. The board shall
	establish a procedure under which meetings are held regularly by
	district- and campus-level planning and decision-making committees
	that include representative professional staff, including, if
	practicable, at least one representative with the primary
	responsibility for educating students with disabilities, parents
	of students enrolled in the district, business representatives, and
	community members and that may include students enrolled in the
	district. The committees shall include a business representative
	without regard to whether the representative resides in the
	district or whether the business the person represents is located
	in the district. The board, or the board's designee, shall
	periodically meet with the district-level committee to review the
	district-level committee's deliberations.
	(b-1)  The board shall adopt policies providing avenues for
	students to participate in the district- and campus-level planning
	and decision-making process, such as by inviting students to attend
	committee meetings or providing student input boxes at each campus
	through which a student may provide input anonymously.
	(g)  This section does not:
	(1)  prohibit the board from conducting meetings with
	teachers or groups of teachers other than the meetings described by
	this section;
	(2)  prohibit the board from establishing policies
	providing avenues for input from others, including [students or]
	paraprofessional staff, in district- or campus-level planning and
	decision-making;
	(3)  limit or affect the power of the board to govern
	the public schools; or
	(4)  create a new cause of action or require collective
	bargaining.
	SECTION 2.  Section 11.252, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsection (e) to read as
	follows:
	(a-1)  A district improvement plan must identify the student
	input that was incorporated into the plan.
	(e)  The district-level committee established under Section
	11.251 shall hold at least one public meeting per year. The
	required meeting shall be held after receipt of the annual district
	performance report from the agency for the purpose of discussing
	the performance of the district and the district performance
	objectives. District policy and procedures must be established to
	ensure that systematic communications measures are in place to
	periodically obtain broad-based community, parent, student, and
	staff input and to provide information to those persons regarding
	the recommendations of the district-level committee. This section
	does not create a new cause of action or require collective
	bargaining.
	SECTION 3.  Sections 11.253(d) and (g), Education Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(d)  Each campus improvement plan must:
	(1)  assess the academic achievement for each student
	in the school using the achievement indicator system as described
	by Section 39.053;
	(2)  set the campus performance objectives based on the
	achievement indicator system, including objectives for special
	needs populations, including students in special education
	programs under Subchapter A, Chapter 29;
	(3)  identify how the campus goals will be met for each
	student;
	(4)  determine the resources needed to implement the
	plan;
	(5)  identify staff needed to implement the plan;
	(6)  set timelines for reaching the goals;
	(7)  measure progress toward the performance
	objectives periodically to ensure that the plan is resulting in
	academic improvement;
	(8)  include goals and methods for violence prevention
	and intervention on campus;
	(9)  provide for a program to encourage parental
	involvement at the campus; [and]
	(10)  if the campus is an elementary, middle, or junior
	high school, set goals and objectives for the coordinated health
	program at the campus based on:
	(A)  student fitness assessment data, including
	any data from research-based assessments such as the school health
	index assessment and planning tool created by the federal Centers
	for Disease Control and Prevention;
	(B)  student academic performance data;
	(C)  student attendance rates;
	(D)  the percentage of students who are
	educationally disadvantaged;
	(E)  the use and success of any method to ensure
	that students participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity
	as required by Section 28.002(l); and
	(F)  any other indicator recommended by the local
	school health advisory council; and
	(11)  identify the student input that was incorporated
	into the plan.
	(g)  Each campus-level committee shall hold at least one
	public meeting per year. The required meeting shall be held after
	receipt of the annual campus rating from the agency to discuss the
	performance of the campus and the campus performance objectives.
	District policy and campus procedures must be established to ensure
	that systematic communications measures are in place to
	periodically obtain broad-based community, parent, student, and
	staff input, and to provide information to those persons regarding
	the recommendations of the campus-level committees.
	SECTION 4.  This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
	school year.
	SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.