The agency must collect certain local student engagement and workforce development information for reporting and post it on the Texas School Accountability Dashboard. School districts and open-enrollment charter schools may provide the information, but do not have to.
Sec. 39.0532. REPORTING OF LOCAL INDICATORS OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. (a) The agency shall collect for reporting purposes only information provided by school districts and open-enrollment charter schools under Subsection (b) regarding local indicators of student engagement and workforce development. (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may, but is not required to, provide to the agency information regarding the following indicators at a district or school campus that serves students in prekindergarten through eighth grade: (1) an indicator that accounts for the percentage of students participating in school-sponsored extracurricular or cocurricular student activities consistent with the findings of the extracurricular and cocurricular student activity indicator study required under Section 39.0533, as that section existed immediately before September 1, 2023; (2) for campuses that serve students in prekindergarten, an indicator that accounts for student participation in full-day prekindergarten programs; (3) for campuses that serve students in kindergarten through fifth grade, an indicator that accounts for teacher completion rates of the literacy achievement academies and mathematics achievement academies established under Sections 21.4552 and 21.4553; (4) an indicator that accounts for students in grades six, seven, and eight who successfully complete a career and technology course approved for purposes of the career and technology education allotment under Section 48.106; and (5) an indicator that accounts for students who successfully complete and receive credit for a course designated for a grade higher than the grade in which the student is enrolled. (c) The agency shall post the information collected under Subsection (a) on the Texas School Accountability Dashboard developed under Section 39.309. (d) This section may not be construed to limit the authority to modify performance indicators under Section 39.053 to include indicators described by this section. Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 6 (H.B. 8), Sec. 2.004, eff. December 4, 2025.