moving from reconstitution to turnaround plan …...turnaround plan development • tea expects to...

2015 © Region One Education Service Center

Moving from Reconstitution to Turnaround Plan

House Bill 1842


House Bill 1842 Legislative Intent to Minimize Duplication

• Campus Turnaround Plans • Public Meetings on Plans • Innovation Districts

Author: Aycock

Topics: Innovation Zones, Monitoring Reviews, Special Accreditation Visits, Campus Intervention Teams, Campus Turnaround, Student Trustees

Chapter 39

HB 1842


House Bill 1842 Full implementation in 2016-2017

Immediate implications for 2015-2016,

based on August 7th ratings:

• New 1st year IR campuses – No Impact (re: HB1842) • New 2nd year IR campuses – Reconstitution plans do not have to

be developed or submitted for approval • 3rd year IR campuses – Implement their reconstitution plans per

previous requirements • 4th year and above IR campuses – Continue implementation of

current improvement initiatives, including any ongoing elements of their reconstitution plans

Agency will be working as quickly as possible to create new guidelines and rules by early 2016 for these campuses to develop and submit for approval a school turnaround plan for implementation in the 2016-17 school year.


House Bill 1842 Transition Chart

• TEA has developed a chart that outlines the

transition timeline for current IR campuses to the new HB 1842 requirements.

• This chart specifically addresses the issue of campus closure and board of managers for those campuses that do not meet academic accountability requirements within a specified time frame.


Years IR HB 1842 Short-term Impact

(2015-2016)

1st Year Current Chapter 39 requirements1842

2nd Year No reconstitution plan now

Turnaround plan later

3rd Year Implement approved reconstitution plan


4th & 5th Year Continue current initiatives


(2018-2019)


2015-2016 2016-2017

2017-2018

2018-2019

CIT Targeted IP

Transition to Turnaround

Plan

CIT Targeted IP

Implement Turnaround

Plan

CIT Targeted IP

Implement Turnaround

Plan

Closure or Board of

Managers

Proposed Timeline for Multi-Year IR Campuses (as of August 2015)


House Bill 1842 Board of Managers (BOM)

• If commissioner does NOT approve turnaround plan, then must order:

• Appointment of Board Of Managers

• Alternative management for the school (term of not more than 5 years)

• Closure

• Specific criteria must be met for a district to repurpose a closed school

• BOM can only be removed if the campus receives acceptable ratings for 2 consecutive years

• After each of the last 3 years of appointment, 1/3rd of BOM shall be replaced by elected trustees

• Commissioner can replace BOM if relevant campus receives unacceptable ratings for 2 more years


House Bill 1842 Rules

• TEA is in the process of finalizing draft rules and hope to have them posted for public comment within the next month (December 2015).

• These rules will clarify timelines and procedures not only for developing turnaround plans, but also the TAIS process for all IR campuses.

• Given that the rules will not be ready for final adoption until March 2016 at the earliest

• TEA will be providing some clarification for campuses transitioning to a turnaround plan throughout this school year.


House Bill 1842 Turnaround Plan Development

• TEA expects to have turnaround plan template available in mid to

late January for campus distribution. • While awaiting for the template to be finalized, TEA wishes to stress

that campuses and districts should begin thinking and planning about their turnaround plans now.

• Statute does provide some parameters about what the plan will have to include and we will be aligning those parameters with key components of the TAIS framework.

• Critical Areas: – 1) Include any systemic changes that have been put in place on a

specific campus within the past year; – 2) think about any new initiatives they want to, or are thinking of,

implementing over the next couple of years; and – 3) consider how these initiatives fit into the Support Systems ring of

the TAIS framework (capacity and resources; communication; organization structure; and policies/procedures)


House Bill 1842 Training

• TEA is developing trainings for DCSIs and principals that will be available in February 2016 (TBA 2/11 & 12)

• Concrete details on mode and location for these trainings in the next month.

– optional face-to-face training for principals in early February; and

– a required virtual training for DCSIs in the same time period.


House Bill 1842 Timeline

For multi-year IR campuses (2nd year and above) to transition to turnaround plans this spring:

Late 2015/Early 2016—Public comment period on Chapter 97 rules

Mid-late January 2016—release turnaround plan template

February 2016—trainings for DCSIs, PSPs, and principals

March 2016—Final adoption of Chapter 97 rules

Late spring 2016 —submission of turnaround plans to TEA

Early summer 2016 —Commissioner approval of turnaround plans


House Bill 1842 Innovation Zones


• Districts with acceptable ratings can become “Innovation Zones”

• Can exercise same statutory flexibility as do charters

• Streamlined procedures for high-performing charters to expand

• Charter revocation/non-renewal procedures include opportunity to meet with commissioner and submit additional information

• Commissioner must respond in writing to the information in a final decision




• Establishes innovation zone designations to allow campuses to develop local initiatives to improve educational outcomes.

• Allows consideration of such designations to be initiated by board resolution or by a petition signed by a majority of a district-level committee.

• Outlines other aspects of the process and procedures for innovation designation.

• Establishes eligibility for participation that requires a school district’s most recent performance rating to be at least “acceptable.”

• Requires a district’s local innovation plan to include innovative curriculum, instructional methods, and provisions regarding community participation, campus governance, and parental involvement.

• Allows exemption from certain state laws, similar to flexibility provided to charter schools.

• Limits a campus designation as an innovation zone to no more than five years.

• Addresses amendment, rescission, renewal, and terminations by the commissioner and allows the commissioner to adopt rules.


Contacts

Dr. Tina McIntyre, Administrator Office of School Improvement, Accountability and Compliance

956-984-6027 [email protected]

moving from reconstitution to turnaround plan …...turnaround plan development • tea expects to...

Documents