Website Posting Requirements
for school district web pages
WEBSITE POSTING REQUIREMENTS
A district – if they have a website – is required to post information regarding:
| Internet Postings on District's Internet Site | Section | Rule, Law, Regulation | Notes | |
| Accountability | AEIS Report | 39.362 | Education Code | |
| Accountability | Performance Rating of the District | 39.362 | Education Code | |
| Accountability | Definitions and Explanation of Each Performance Rating Described by Education Code 39.072(a) | 39.362 | Education Code | |
| Accountability | School Report Card | 39.362 | Education Code | |
| Accountability | Notice of accreditation-warned or accreditation-probation status | 39.054 | Education Code | This notice is to remain on the district's web site until the rating is raised to "Accredited" status. The notice is to explain the implacations of the status and steps to be taken to address the deficiencies identified by the TEA. |
| Accountability | Improvement plan for low-performing campuses hearing | §39.106, 39.107 | Education Code | Board is to conduct a public hearing on improvement plan for low-performing campuses and post the improvement plan on the district's web site. |
| Accountability | Conflicts Disclosure Statements and Questionnaires | 176.009 | Local Government Code | |
| Accountability | Check Register and Aggregate Payroll Amount | Optional. This is one of the requirements for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts' transparency award program. This was previously linked to one of the indicators in School FIRST. | ||
| Accountability | Superintendent's Contract | 109.1005(b)(2)(A) | Title 19, Texas Administrative Code | The school district is to provide a copy of the superintendent's contract EITHER as a disclosure in the financial management report provided to attendees at the Schools FIRST hearing OR by posting the contract on the district's Internet site. |
| Accountability | Targeted Improvement Plan | 39.106(e-1)(2) | Education Code | Post prior to Board hearing on targeted improvement plan |
| Accountability | Notice of Corrective Action | 6316(c)(10) | Title 20 United States Code (U.S.C.) | NCLB-related requirement |
| Financial | Summary of Proposed Budget | 44.0041 | Education Code | |
| Financial | Post Adopted Budget | 39.084 | Education Code | Required to maintain the adopted budget on the district's website until the third anniversary of the date the budget was adopted |
| Financial | Costs and Metered Amounts for Electricity, Water, and Natural Gas for District | 2265.001(b) | Government Code | House Bill 3693, 80th Legislature, Regular Session |
| Financial | Proposed Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate | 26.05(b) | Tax Code | Required if tax rate will raise more taxes than prior year or if tax rate exceeds effective maintenance and operations tax rate |
| Financial | Tax Rate Trend Information | 26.16 | Tax Code | School districts are to provide tax rate information to the County Tax Assessor Collector for the most recent five tax years beginning with the 2012 tax year. The information to be posted by the County Tax Assessor Collector is the following: adopted tax rate, maintenance and operations rate, debt rate, effective tax rate, effectie maintenance and operations rate and rollback rate. This will allow taxpayers to go to a single web site to view tax rate information for all taxing entities. |
| Financial | Federal grant awards | Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) | School districts and open-enrollment charter schools that receive federal grant awards totaling more than $25,000 and contract awards totaling more than $550,000, respectively, directly from the federal government on or after October 1, 2010, must report certain information, including a description of the award and, in some instances, must also report the total compensation and names of the top five school officials. A report will be due by the end of the month following approval for a federal grant or contract, and must be updated when there are changes to specific information on file. The new reporting requirements does not apply to federal awards that passed through the TEA (becasue TEA is covering this reporting effort for federal funds that pass through TEA). School district and open-enrollment charter school are responsible for initiating their own process to ensure compliance with the FFATA reporting requirements by following instructions provided by grantor agencies other than the TEA. | |
| Governance | Bill of rights for property owners whose property may be acquired by governmental or private entities through the use of eminent domain authority | 402.031 | Government Code | House Bill 1495, 80th Legislature, Regular Session |
| Governance | Notice of a Board Meeting | 551.056 | Government Code | |
| Governance | Agenda for a Board Meeting | 551.056 | Government Code | Required if the board meeting notice does not include the agenda and the district contains all or part of the area within the corporate boundaries of a municipality with a population of 48,000 or more |
| Governance | Campaign Finance Reports | 254.04011 | Election Code | Required of members of board of trustees and candidates for the office of school board trustee for school districts located either wholly or partly in a city with a population of 500,000 or more, and with a student enrollment of more than 15,000. The campaign finance reports must be posted online no later than the fifth business day after the date the report is filed with the school district. The posting provisions apply to campaign finance reports that are required to be filed on or after Jan. 1, 2012, under House Bill 336, 82nd Legislature. |
| Health | Post in English and Spanish: a list of immunization requirements and recommendations, a list of health clinics in the district that offer influenza vaccine, and a link to the Department of State Health Services Internet website providing procedures for claiming an exemption from requirements in Section 38.001, Education Code. | 38.019 | Education Code | House Bill 1059, 80th Legislature, Regular Session |
| Health | Statement for Public Inspection by School Health Advisory Council | BDF Legal | ||
| Personnel | Group Health Coverage Plan and Report | 22.004(d) | Education Code | Annual report submitted to TRS and copy of plan |
| Personnel | Vacancy Position Postings | 11.1513(d)(1)(B) | Education Code | 10 day notice for vacant position requiring license or certificate |
| Personnel | Posting of Vacancies | 11.163(d) | Education Code | Post vacant position for which a certificate or license is required or post the position at certain physical locations in the district |
| Personnel | Board's Employment Policies | 21.204(a)–(d) | Education Code | |
| Purchasing | Reverse Auction Scheduled Internet Location | 2155.062(d) | Government Code | |
| Students | College Credit Programs | 28.010(b) | Education Code | Availability of college credit courses |
| Students | Physical Activity Policies | 28.004(k) | Education Code | Physical activity policy by campus level, health advisory council information, notification to parents that child's physical fitness assessment results available on request, vending machine and food service guidelines, and penalities for tobacco product use |
| Students | Dates PSAT/NMSQT and any college advanced placement tests will be administered and provide instructions for participation by a home-schooled pupil. | 29.916 | Education Code | House Bill 1844, 80th Legislature, Regular Session |
| District Posting on TEA's Internet Site | Section | Rule, Law, Regulation | ||
| Accountability | Campus Improvement Plans | 7.3.7 State Compensatory Education Audit | Update 14 Financial Accountability System Resource Guide | |
| Accountability | District Improvement Plan | 7.3.7 State Compensatory Education Audit | Update 14 Financial Accountability System Resource Guide | |
| Accountability | Evaluation of State Compensatory Education | 7.3.7 State Compensatory Education Audit | Update 14 Financial Accountability System Resource Guide | |
| Financial | Annual Financial and Compliance Report | 7.3.6.1 Submission Requirements | Update 14 Financial Accountability System Resource Guide | |
| This document is distributed for informational use only; it does not constitute legal advice and should not be used as such. | ||||
| Prepared by: | ||||
| Tom Canby | ||||
| Director of Research and Technology | ||||
| Texas Association of School Business Officials |
Recommended Items:
- School Calendar
- Student Code of Conduct
- Handbook(s) / District Crisis Plan (include the rights of employees to assault leave in employee handbook)
- School Board Minutes/Agendas
- Calendars
- Honor Roll Information
- UIL Sportsmanship Manual
- Site-based Decision Making Team Minutes/Agendas
- District Plan –(must include the Dating Violence Policy ~HB121)
