(a) Each school district and open-enrollment charter
school shall report through the Texas Student Data System Public Education
Information Management System (TSDS PEIMS) the number of full-time
equivalent school counselors, defined as 40 hours of counseling services
a week, at each campus.
(b) Each school district and open-enrollment charter
school shall report through TSDS PEIMS for each campus:
(1) the availability of expanded learning opportunities
that are provided during:
(A) an extended school day program that students are
required to attend as part of the regular program of the campus at
which students are enrolled to increase the academic achievement and
development of participating students;
(B) an extended school year program that students are
required to attend as part of the regular program of the campus at
which students are enrolled to increase the academic achievement and
development of participating students; or
(C) a supplemental voluntary structured learning program
that:
(i) occurs outside of the regular school day, including
before- and after-school programs and summer programs; and
(ii) is coordinated with and enhances the regular academic
program of the campus to increase the academic achievement and development
of the participating student; and
(2) the availability of expanded learning opportunities
that are provided by offering:
(A) rigorous coursework that includes activities related
to providing Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)-aligned credit-earning
courses, including activities related to dual credit and credit recovery;
(B) mentoring that consists of scheduled interaction
between a trained adult and an individual student in which the adult
provides support and teaches life skills to help the student's personal
and academic development;
(C) tutoring that consists of one-on-one or small group
instruction, led by a certified teacher, that provides supplemental
content instruction or homework help to support student mastery of
academic material and that does not include academic skill-building
activities;
(D) physical activity that consists of instructor-led
activities designed to provide students with supplemental opportunities
for individual or group exercise or related knowledge and skills that
encourage regular physical activity;
(E) academic support that provides supplemental instruction
related to student academic skill development, including compensatory
education, test-taking skills, and related academic skill-building,
and that does not include tutoring and homework help; or
(F) educational enrichment in one or more subjects,
including fine arts, civic engagement, science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics, that includes activities that engage students in
actively exploring academic content introduced during the regular
school day to increase the academic success of students and consists
of activities that are intentionally designed to align with but not
replicate the instruction.
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