SB 1566, which goes into effect September 1 of this year, requires your school board to “provide oversight regarding student academic achievement and strategic leadership for maximizing student performance.” To ensure that trustees are up to the job, the law also requires that each trustee must get three hours of training on this subject every two years.

This bill also requires TEA to create a website specific to any district whose board requests it:

On request by the board of trustees of an independent school district, the agency shall create an Internet website that members of the board may use to review campus and district academic achievement data.

The data will be broken down by campus, grade, sex, race, academic quarter or semester and school year.  Moreover, the site will enable trustees to make comparisons of their district with “other districts of similar size and racial and economic characteristics.”

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