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PERFORMANCE  / AEIS      The Board shall publish an annual report describing the educa

REPORT                             tional performance of the District and of each campus in the Dis

trict. This report is provided by TEA and is termed the Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) report. It is intended to inform the public about the educational performance of the District and of each campus in relation to the District, the state, and a comparable group of schools. The report shall include:

1.      Uniform student performance and descriptive information as
         required by rules of the Commissioner.

2.      Campus performance objectives and the progress of each

campus toward those objectives.

3.      The District’s performance rating and the performance rating

for each campus.

4.      A comparison provided by TEA of:

a. The performance of each campus to its previous per
        formance and to state-established standards;

b. The performance of the District to its previous perform
        ance and to state-established standards; and

c.     The performance of each campus or district to compara

ble improvement.

5.      The District’s current special education compliance status with

TEA.

6.      A statement of the number, rate, and type of violent or crimi
         nal incidents that occurred on each District campus, to the ex
         tent permitted under the Family Educational Rights and Pri
         vacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g). [See FL]

7.      Information concerning school violence prevention and vio
         lence intervention policies and procedures that the District is
         using to protect students.

8.      The findings that result from evaluations conducted under the
         Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994
         (20U.S.C. Section 7101 et seq.).

9.      A statement of the amount, if any, of the District’s unencum
         bered surplus fund balance as of the last day of the preceding
         fiscal year and the percentage of the preceding year’s budget
         that the surplus represents.

10.    Information received from postsecondary institutions reporting
         student performance during the first year enrolled after
         graduating from high school for each high school campus in

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the District, presented in a form determined by the Commis

sioner.

ADDITIONAL                   The District may not alter the report provided by TEA; however, it

INFORMATION                may concurrently provide additional information to the public that

explains information in the report, such as:

1.Student information, including total enrollment, enrollment by
         ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and grade groupings, and re
         tention rates.

2.Financial information, including revenue and expenditures.

3.Staff information, including number and type of staff by gen
         der, ethnicity, years of experience, and highest degree held,
         teacher and administrator salaries, and teacher turnover.

4.Program information, including student enrollment by pro
         gram, teachers by program, and instructional operating ex
         penditures by program.

5.Number of students placed in a disciplinary alternative educa
         tion program under Education Code 37.

PUBLIC HEARING           Within 90 days after the report is received from TEA, the Board
                                      shall hold a hearing for public discussion of the report and shall
                                      notify property owners and parents in the District of the hearing.
                                      The notification must include notice to a newspaper of general cir
                                      culation in the District and notice to electronic media serving the
                                      District.

PUBLICATION                 The report must be published within two weeks after the hearing, in

the same format as it was received from TEA.

AEIS                               After the hearing, the Board shall disseminate the report by posting

DISSEMINATION             it in public places, such as school offices, local businesses, and

public libraries.

Education Code 39.053; 19 TAC 61.1022

AEIS INTERNET              A district that maintains an Internet Web site shall, not later than

DISSEMINATION             the tenth day of instruction of each school year, make the informa

tion contained in the most recent AEIS report available to the public

on the Web site. Education Code 39.252

PRIMARY                       The information required to be reported in Education Code 39.053

CONSIDERATION            shall be a primary consideration in District and campus planning.

Education Code 39.054(2)

SCHOOL REPORT              TEA is required to prepare a campus report card for every campus

CARD (SRC)                       in the state. This report is called the school report card (SRC) and

 

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is intended to inform each student’s parents or guardians about the

school’s performance.

SRC                               Each school campus must disseminate the school report card

DISSEMINATION             within six weeks after it is received from TEA. The campus may

disseminate the school report card in the same manner it normally transmits official communications to parents and guardians. These methods may include:

1.Including the SRC in a weekly folder sent home with each
         student;

2.Mailing it to each student’s residence;

3.Providing it at a parent-teacher conference; or

4.Enclosing it with the student report card.

On written request, the District shall provide a copy of a campus report card to any other party.

ADDITIONAL                   A school may not alter the SRC, but it may include additional in

INFORMATION                formation with the report that explains or supplements information

contained within the report.

Education Code 39.052; 19 TAC 61.1021

SRC INTERNET               A district that maintains an Internet Web site shall, not later than

DISSEMINATION             the tenth day of instruction of each school year, make the informa

tion contained in the most recent SRC for each campus available

to the public on the Web site. Education Code 39.252

ANNUAL FINANCIAL            The Commissioner shall develop a reporting procedure under

MANAGEMENT                   which the District is required to prepare and distribute an annual

REPORT                             financial management report. The annual financial management

report prepared by the District must include a description of the District’s financial management performance based on a comparison, provided by TEA, of the District’s performance on the indicators in Texas Administrative Code Title 19, Section 109.1002.

The public shall be given an opportunity to comment on the report at a hearing.

REPORT                         The report shall contain information on state-established standards

REQUIREMENTS            and the District’s financial management performance under each

indicator for the current and previous years’ financial accountability ratings, along with any descriptive information required by the Commissioner including:

1.A copy of the Superintendent’s current employment contract.
         The District may publish the Superintendent’s employment

 

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contract on the District’s Internet site in lieu of publication in the annual financial management report;

2.      A summary schedule for the fiscal year (12-month period) of
         total reimbursements received by the Superintendent and
         each Board member, including transactions resulting from use
         of the District’s credit card(s) to cover expenses incurred by
         the Superintendent and each Board member. The summary
         schedule shall separately report reimbursements for meals,
         lodging, transportation, motor fuel, and other items (the sum
         mary schedule of total reimbursements is not to include reim
         bursements for supplies and materials that were purchased
         for the operation of the District);

3.      A summary schedule for the fiscal year of the dollar amount of
         compensation and/or fees received by the Superintendent
         from another school district or any other outside entity in ex
         change for professional consulting and/or other personal ser
         vices. The schedule shall separately report the amount re
         ceived from each entity;

4.      A summary schedule for the fiscal year of the total dollar
         amount received by the executive officers and Board mem
         bers of gifts that had an economic value of $250 or more in
         the aggregate in the fiscal year. This reporting requirement
         only applies to:

a. Gifts received by the District’s executive officers and
        Board members (and their immediate family as de
        scribed by Government Code, Chapter 573, Subchapter
        B, as a person related to another person within the first
        degree by consanguinity or affinity) from an outside en
        tity that received payments from the District in the prior
        fiscal year, and

b. Gifts from competing vendors that were not awarded
        contracts in the prior fiscal year.

This reporting requirement does not apply to reimbursement of travel-related expenses by an outside entity when the purpose of the travel is to investigate or explore matters directly related to the duties of an executive officer or Board member, or matters related to attendance at education-related conferences and seminars whose primary purpose is to provide continuing education (this exclusion does not apply to trips for entertainment-related purposes or pleasure trips). This reporting requirement excludes an individual gift or a series of gifts from a single outside entity that had an aggregate economic

 

 

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