General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Second Called Session of the Sixty-Eighth Legislature and the Regular Session of the Sixty-Ninth Legislature Page: 179
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68th LEGIS-2nd CALLED SESSION
of this code, and [this see iin,] each district shall bear the cost on the basis of the number of
students in the district to whom the instruments are administered. If a district does not receive
an allocation of compensatory aid, the commissioner of education shall subtract the cost from
the district's other foundation school fund allocations [alleee'tin].
Sec. 21.559. COMPARISON OF STATE RESULTS TO NATIONAL RESULTS. The
Central Education Agency shall compare the results of criterion referenced assessment instruments
administered under Section 21.551 of this subchapter to nationally norm-referenced assessment
instruments to determine the level of achievement of students in this state as compared to students
in other regions of the country.
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than September 1, 1985, the Central Education Agency shall
adopt assessment instruments in accordance with Subchapter O, Chapter 21, Education Code, as
added by this Act, and shall determine the level of performance that is considered satisfactory on
assessment instruments.
(b) Not later than the 1985-1986 school year, the State Board of Education shall begin
administering assessment instruments adopted by the Central Education Agency in accordance
with Subchapter O, Chapter 21, Education Code, as added by this Act.
(c) During the 1984-1985 school year, the State Board of Education shall administer
assessment instruments as provided by Section 16.176, Education Code, as that section existed
before being amended by this Act.
PART C. SCHOOL-COMMUNITY GUIDANCE CENTERS
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 16, Education Code, is transferred to Subchapter P,
Chapter 21, Education Code, is renumbered, and is amended to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER P [1]. SCHOOL-COMMUNITY GUIDANCE CENTERS
Sec. 21.601 [4401]. ESTABLISHMENT. (a) Each school district [ith an everage daily
attend-nee of at lest ;99 tu dete] may establish a school-community guidance center
designed to locate and assist children with problems which interfere with their education,
including but not limited to juvenile offenders and children with severe behavioral problems or
character disorders. The centers shall coordinate the efforts of school district personnel, local
police departments, truant officers, and probation officers in working with students, dropouts,
and parents in identifying and correcting factors which adversely affect the education of the
children.
(b) With the approval of the commissioner of education, school districts with an average daily
attendance of less than 6,000 students may cooperate with other districts for the purpose of
establishing a common center.
Sec. 21.602 [46408]. COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS. The board of trustees of a school
district may develop cooperative programs with state youth agencies for children found guilty of
delinquent conduct.
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center teneher for eneh 6;00sudn99n veeeattnoneove
students in the distrietor. Odneadet. One attendonee
eesuntant and eone addtinae teneher aide be pre vided for every two additional
guidenee enter tenehew
[(6) he ee"ms"one shell .determine the qualieations and - pay grade
under the exas State Publie Eduean P for guidenee center
teehers attendnee ensultants-, and teaeheer aides employed at a enter
[(e The leeal bheards of trustees may enter into eont.aets with othe agencies fee
funding of personnel invelved in eeepereatiepregrame-
[See- 16.404 G. PERAING - (e ) The eest.of . ... an approved. seheell
eermmuiy udee center shell be borne the state and. distries.
on the same per centage basis that tothe
within the .distrie The state's share the est shall be paid from fu n appropriate for
that perpese- While in attendonee at aseeeter , a student
may not be eeunted in the everage daily attendance of the seheel distriet for other
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[(6) Should the ' n biennium be insuffieent to fully fund the Aety
the Stat Bee of shall e~iheriteeia in addition to those provided herein
for seleeting distsiete to be funded en a need basi- The eemmissionec shall use those
eimiteiea to determmine annuaely the distriets to be authorized to r'eceive funds for
opereting seelemuiyguideneeecenters-]179
CH 28, SEC. VI-C1
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