Section 37.0082 - Assessment of Academic Growth of Students in Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs(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.Tex. Educ. Code § 37.0082
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1240, Sec. 2, eff. 6/15/2007.