Texas SB9: Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.

What the bill says

An act relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.

From the amended text, August 15, 2025:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: ARTICLE 1. TRANSITION TO INSTRUCTIONALLY SUPPORTIVE ASSESSMENT PROGRAM SECTION 1.001. Section 26.005, Education Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 26.005. ACCESS TO STATE ASSESSMENTS[ADDED: AND ASSESSMENT ] [ADDED: RESULTS].[ADDED: (a)]Except as provided by Section[ADDED: 39.02301(m)] [[DELETED: 39.023(e)]], a parent is entitled to access to a copy of each state assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023 to the parent's child. [ADDED: (b)][ADDED: ][ADDED: ][ADDED: The agency shall make available to a parent the results ] [ADDED: of each state assessment instrument administered under Section ] [ADDED: 39.023 to the parent's child. ][ADDED: ][ADDED: The results must be accessible by one ] [ADDED: click from the home page of an Internet website maintained by the ] [ADDED: agency. ][ADDED: ][ADDED: Identifying information that is necessary to access a ] [ADDED: child's results must:] [] [ and] [ADDED: …