Section 39A.007 - Intervention to Improve High School Completion Rate(a) This section applies to a school district if the district is subject to commissioner action under Section 39A.001 and the district has failed to satisfy any standard under Section 39.054(e) because of the district's dropout rates.(b) The commissioner may impose against a school district subject to this section sanctions designed to improve high school completion rates, including:(1) ordering the development of a dropout prevention plan for approval by the commissioner;(2) restructuring the district or appropriate school campuses to improve identification of and service to students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by Section 29.081;(3) ordering lower student-to-counselor ratios on school campuses with high dropout rates; and(4) ordering the use of any other intervention strategy effective in reducing dropout rates, including mentor programs and flexible class scheduling.Tex. Educ. Code § 39A.007
Added by Acts 2017, Texas Acts of the 85th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 324,Sec. 21.001, eff. 9/1/2017.Sections 39.003 and 39.004, Education Code, as redesignated and amended by this Act, and Sections 39.005, 39.006, and 39.007, Education Code, as added by this Act, apply to a special investigation authorized, initiated, opened, or finalized on or after the effective date of this Act. A special investigation authorized or initiated by the Texas Education Agency under Section 39.057, Education Code, before the effective date of this Act that is open and not finalized on the effective date of this Act, shall be continued as if authorized by Section 39.003, Education Code, as redesignated and amended by this Act, and proceed subject to Section 39.004, Education Code, as redesignated and amended by this Act, and Sections 39.005, 39.006, and 39.007, Education Code, as added by this Act.