SECTION 61.1026. Statutorily Required Reporting through the Public Education Information Management System

(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.

Source Note: The provisions of this §61.1026 adopted to be effective September 1, 2020, 45 TexReg 6105