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TITLE 19EDUCATION
PART 2TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
CHAPTER 97PLANNING AND ACCOUNTABILITY
SUBCHAPTER EEACCREDITATION STATUS, STANDARDS, AND SANCTIONS
DIVISION 2CONTRACTING TO PARTNER TO OPERATE A DISTRICT CAMPUS
RULE §97.1079Determination Processes and Criteria for Eligible Entity Approval under Texas Education Code, §11.174

      (ii) For partnership benefits applied to all campuses approved for the 2022-2023 school year and thereafter, evidence must be provided that the operating partner:

        (I) has been in existence for at least three years prior to undertaking the management of the district campus;

        (II) has managed multiple campuses for multiple years; and

        (III) has a track record of managing campuses to academic success or has significantly improved the academic performance of campuses.

    (E) In order to qualify for ongoing benefits, subsequent to initial eligibility validation or approval, the eligible partnership campus must comply with all information requests or monitoring visits deemed necessary by TEA staff to monitor the ongoing eligibility of the partnership.

    (F) To receive benefits under TEC, §11.174(f) and (g) and §48.252, the district must continuously meet the requirements in this subsection.

    (G) Notwithstanding this subsection, the commissioner will treat a campus granted a charter under TEC, Chapter 12, Subchapter C, as an open-enrollment charter school under TEC, §11.174(a)(1), if the Subchapter C charter was granted by a high-quality district authorizer. A high-quality district authorizer is a district that has successfully completed a state-approved professional development program in high-quality authorizing and has operated at least four Subchapter C campuses that are eligible for benefits under TEC, §11.174, in the prior year with at least 75% of those campuses performing at or above an agency-identified threshold for each campus's School Progress Domain.


Source Note: The provisions of this §97.1079 adopted to be effective April 4, 2018, 43 TexReg 1993; amended to be effective September 1, 2019, 44 TexReg 4477; amended to be effective March 31, 2020, 45 TexReg 2174; amended to be effective March 26, 2024, 49 TexReg 1921

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