Some 67 percent of Texans responding to a 1997 poll favored options to allow students to leave such schools. Given the state's significant investment in Texas public schools, it seems clear that a serious attempt to reform inadequate schools should be made before the state resorts to moving its children elsewhere. Texas Education Agency. In this process, all or part of a campus's teachers must resign and reapply for their jobs with the school district.
Research confirms that the results of such measures are well worth the effort.
The Commissioner of Education has this authority, but has used it only in extreme cases. Those teachers not rehired at the same campus were assigned to other positions in the district. Corpus Christi ISD voluntarily chose reconstitution for Wynn Seale Middle School in 1995. It is results like these that are making reconstitution look more and more attractive to those who are concerned about low-performing schools. Recommendation State law should be amended to require the Commissioner of Education to establish a mandatory reconstitution process for chronic low-performing schools.