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Members: Ken Mercer, Chair; Charlie Garza, Vice Chair; Mavis B. Knight; Gail Lowe; and Michael Soto.

1. Recommendation for Appointment to the Lackland Independent School District Board of Trustees

This item provides an opportunity for board consideration of an appointment to the board of trustees of the Lackland Independent School District. The appointment is necessary due to the expiration of the term of office for one board member. Statutory authority for this action is the Texas Education Code (TEC), §11.352, and 19 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) §61.2.

COMMITTEE - ACTION
SBOE - CONSENT

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2. Recommendation for Appointments to the Fort Sam Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees

This item provides an opportunity for board consideration of appointments to the board of trustees of the Fort Sam Houston Independent School District. The appointments are necessary due to the expiration of the term of office for two board members. Statutory authority for this action is the Texas Education Code (TEC), §11.352, and 19 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) §61.2.

COMMITTEE - ACTION
SBOE - CONSENT

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3. Review of Open-Enrollment Charter School Applications Removed from Consideration for Incompleteness

This item provides the Committee on School Initiatives an opportunity to review and confirm the removal of seventeenth generation open-enrollment charter school applications from consideration because of incompleteness. If an application removed from consideration by the agency because of incompleteness is determined by the committee to be complete, then the committee will direct Texas Education Agency staff to move the application forward for scoring by independent reviewers. Statutory authority for this action is the Texas Education Code (TEC), §12.101 and §12.110.

COMMITTEE - ACTION
SBOE - NO ACTION

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4. Action on Authorized Generation 16 Charter – The Pro-Vision Academy

This item allows the State Board of Education (SBOE) to rescind its authorization of a charter school to be called The Pro-Vision Academy. The SBOE authorized this charter with the condition that the sponsoring entity Pro Vision Educational Services, Inc. provides evidence of undisrupted nonprofit status from the IRS. The item was brought forward at the January 27, 2012 meeting, and the board allowed Pro Vision Educational Services, Inc. until March 16, 2012 to provide Texas Education Agency (TEA) staff with IRS documentation. The documentation was not provided. Statutory authority for this action is the Texas Education Code (TEC), §12.101.

COMMITTEE - ACTION
SBOE - ACTION

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5. Adoption of Review of 19 TAC Chapter 100, Charters, Subchapter A, Open-Enrollment Charter Schools, and Subchapter B, Home-Rule School District Charters
(Adoption of Review)

Texas Government Code, §2001.039, establishes a four-year rule review cycle for all state agency rules, including State Board of Education (SBOE) rules. This item presents the adoption of the review of 19 TAC Chapter 100, Charters, Subchapter A, Open-Enrollment Charter Schools, and Subchapter B, Home-Rule School District Charters. Subchapter A establishes charter application and selection procedures and criteria for charters granted under the Texas Education Code (TEC), Chapter 12, Subchapters D and E; the procedure and content of the annual report on open-enrollment charter governance; and optional provisions for contracting and purchasing. Subchapter B sets forth provisions for adverse action on a home-rule school district charter. The statutory authority for the rule review is Texas Government Code, §2001.039. The statutory authority for 19 TAC Chapter 100, Subchapter A, is the TEC, §§7.102(c)(9), 12.101, 12.1053, 12.110, 12.111, 12.119, 12.152, and 12.154. The statutory authority for 19 TAC Chapter 100, Subchapter B, is the TEC, §7.102(c)(8) and (9) and §12.028.

COMMITTEE - ACTION
SBOE - CONSENT

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6. Discussion of Proposed Amendments to 19 TAC Chapter 100, Charters, Subchapter A, Open-Enrollment Charter Schools

This item provides an opportunity for the committee to discuss proposed amendments to 19 TAC Chapter 100, Charters, Subchapter A, Open-Enrollment Charter Schools, §100.1, Application and Selection Procedures and Criteria, §100.101, Annual Report on Open-Enrollment Charter Governance, and §100.105, Application to Public Senior College or University Charters and Public Junior College Charters. The proposed amendments would clarify the signatories on the original contract for charter, codify practices adopted through the annual governance report pertaining to which family members of board members and school officers must be disclosed, and expand the provisions that would apply to public senior college or university charters and public junior college charters. Statutory authority is the Texas Education Code (TEC), §§7.102(c)(9), 12.101, 12.110, 12.112, 12.119, 12.152, and 12.154.

COMMITTEE - DISCUSSION
SBOE - NO ACTION

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