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TITLE 19 - EDUCATION
PART 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
CHAPTER 89 - ADAPTATIONS FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS
SUBCHAPTER 89.1611.html - null
SECTION/RULE §89.1611 - Promotion of Access to Educational and Extracurricular Programs, Summer Programs, Credit Transfer Services, Electronic Courses, and After-School Tutoring Programs for Students Who Are Homeless or in Substitute Care
Chapter Review Date 09/14/2022

(a) School districts and open-enrollment charter schools must develop processes to increase awareness of opportunities available to students who are homeless or in substitute care to participate in extracurricular programs, summer programs, credit transfer services, electronic courses, and after-school tutoring programs.(b) School districts and open-enrollment charter schools must identify and remove barriers, whenever possible, to participation by students who are homeless or in substitute care in extracurricular programs, summer programs, credit transfer services, electronic courses, and after-school tutoring programs.(c) Appropriate school district or open-enrollment charter school staff must facilitate the process to complete and submit a University Interscholastic League waiver of residence application form for a student who is homeless and plans to participate in varsity athletics. In compliance with Texas Education Code, §25.001(f), a durational residence requirement may not be used to prohibit a student in substitute care from fully participating in any activity sponsored by the school district.

Source Note: The provisions of this §89.1611 adopted to be effective March 30, 2020, 45 TexReg 2159; amended to be effective January 1, 2023, 47 TexReg 8659.

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