The Sunset Advisory Commission meets at 10 a.m. in the Capitol Extension. Agencies up for discussion include the Health and Human Services Commission and the The Sunset Advisory Commission. (agenda)  Live Broadcast

New Issues
This is an excerpt of issues raised in addition to the issues in the staff report  (p. 79-80)
Charter School Regulation  
14. As a management action, direct TEA to revise the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas 
(FIRST) standards for charter schools to more accurately measure the financial health of a 
charter school. (David Dunn, Executive Director – Texas Charter Schools Association, Austin)
15. As a management action, direct TEA to provide a charter holder with an opportunity to 
present evidence of mitigating factors, corrective measures, or other compelling evidence 
during the informal review process to reconsider an action to revoke or deny a charter. Also 
direct TEA to discuss with charter representatives the assignment of the school’s operations 
to a different charter holder, as authorized by law. (David Dunn, Executive Director – Texas 
Charter Schools Association, Austin)
16. As a management action, direct TEA to revise the definition of “imminently insolvent” to 
ensure that a charter is only revoked or subject to reconstitution when it is truly on the verge 
of financial demise. (David Dunn, Executive Director – Texas Charter Schools Association, 
Austin)
17. As a management action, direct TEA to replace the list of compliance or technical reasons for 
charter renewal with the Performance Frameworks, once completed. (David Dunn, Executive 
Director – Texas Charter Schools Association, Austin)
18. As a management action, direct TEA to distinguish in rule between the types of violations 
that warrant revoking the charter and when a lesser sanction of reconstitution of the board 
will be imposed. TEA should set forth in rule a requirement for the commissioner to consider 
mitigating factors before deciding to revoke a charter. (David Dunn, Executive Director – 
Texas Charter Schools Association, Austin) 
19. Require charter school applications to be public to introduce more transparency into the 
selection process; and preclude boiler-plate charter applications. (Holly Eaton, Director of 
Professional Development and Advocacy – Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Austin)
20. Require audits of the accuracy of fiscal information provided by charter schools via the Public 
Education Information Management System (PEIMS) to include an identification of all sources 
of funding, including private funding. (Holly Eaton, Director of Professional Development 
and Advocacy – Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Austin)
21. Require TEA by rule to prohibit any and all paid endorsements or commission-based 
endorsement contracts. (Holly Eaton, Director of Professional Development and Advocacy 
– Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Austin)
22. Pro-rate state funding for charter schools operating for less than a full instructional day. (Holly 
Eaton, Director of Professional Development and Advocacy – Texas Classroom Teachers 
Association, Austin)
23. Prohibit the Commissioner of Education from using his waiver authority to effectively overrule 
a decision by the elected State Board of Education to deny a charter school’s application 
for approval to operate in Texas. (Holly Eaton, Director of Professional Development and 
Advocacy – Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Austin)
24. Require charter schools wishing to fast-track expansion to be subject to the standard 
accountability system. (Holly Eaton, Director of Professional Development and Advocacy – 
Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Austin)
25. Eliminate the expansion amendment option for charter schools using the alternative 
accountability system. (Holly Eaton, Director of Professional Development and Advocacy – 
Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Austin)