Texas Association of School Administrators Required Postings

  • CHISD Administrative Postings to meet Required Postings Provisions

    Notice of School Board Meeting (Government Code, §551.056(a)-(b)): Requires the posting of a meeting notice on the district’s website, if a website is maintained.

    Agenda for School Board Meeting (Government Code, §551.056): Requires the agenda to be concurrently posted with the meeting notice on the website if the school district maintains a website and contains all or part of the area within the corporate boundaries of a municipality with a population of 48,000 or more.

    Texas Academic Performance Report, District Rating (Education Code, §39.362), as amended by HB 3 (81st Legislature)): Requires a school district that maintains a website to post the most recent campus report card for each campus in the district, the information in the most recent performance report, the most recent accreditation status and performance rating of the district, and a definition and explanation of each accreditation status and performance rating.

    Targeted Improvement Plan (Education Code, §39.106(e-1)(2), as amended by HB 3 (81stLegislature)): Requires a school district to post on its website, prior to a hearing, the targeted improvement plan a board of trustees will consider.

    • Cedar Hill ISD posts Targeted Improvement Plans and Campus Improvement Plans on an annual basis to the district website under Required Postings.
    • Link: https://www.chisd.net/Page/1972

    School Board’s Employment Policies (Education Code, §21.204(d)): Required the posting of the employment policies on the district website.

    Conflict Disclosure Statements and Questionnaires (Local Government Code, §176.009(a), as amended by HB 1491 (80th Legislature)): Requires access to statements and questionnaires on the website if a school district maintains a website; school districts are not required to maintain a website.

    Vacancy Postings (Education Code, §11.1513(d)(1)(B), as amended by SB 300 (81th Legislature)): Allows at least ten days’ notice of a vacant position requiring a certificate or license to be posted on the district’s website, if the school district maintains a website.

    Superintendent’s Contract (FIRST, Title 19 Administrative Code, §109.1005(b)(2)(A)): Allows the publication of the superintendent’s contract on the district’s Internet website in lieu of submitting it in the district’s annual financial management report.

    CHISD Financial Postings to meet Required Postings Provisions

    • Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate (Tax Code, §26.05(b)): Requires a school district to post on its website a statement that indicates that it adopted a tax rate that will raise more taxes for maintenance and operations than last year’s tax rate.
    • Cedar Hill ISD posts Budget and Tax Rate information to the Business Office section of the district website under Business Office Documents.
    • Link: https://www.chisd.net/Page/1908

    Summary of Proposed Budget (Education Code, §44.0041, as amended during the 79thLegislature, Third Called Session): Requires a school district to post on the district’s website a summary of the proposed budget if it maintains a website; summary must be concurrently posted with notice of the budget.

    • Cedar Hill ISD posts the Budget Summaries to the Business Office section of the district website under Business Transparency Page.
    • Link:https://www.chisd.net/Page/1908

    Adopted Budget (Education Code, §39.084, as amended by HB 3 (81st Legislature)): Requires a school district to prominently display on the district’s website for three years an external link of the budget adopted by the board of trustees.

    • Cedar Hill ISD posts the Adopted Budget to the Business Office section of the district website under Business Transparency Page.
    • Link: https://www.chisd.net/Page/1908

    Landowner’s Bill of Rights (Property Code, §21.0112(b)(2), as amended by HB 1495 (80th Legislature)): Requires a school district to make available, if technologically feasible, on its Internet website a landowner’s bill of rights prepared by the Attorney General.

    Immunization Awareness (Education Code, §38.019, as amended by HB 1059 (80th Legislature)): Requires a school district that maintains a website to prominently post in English and Spanish the immunizations required for public school, any immunizations or vaccines recommended for public school students, any health clinics that offer the influenza vaccine, and a link to the Department of State Health Services website where a person can learn about the procedures to claim an exemption from the immunization requirements.

    • Cedar Hill ISD posts Immunization Awareness information in both English and Spanish to the Health Services section of the district website.
    • Link: https://www.chisd.net/Page/1973

    Non-Discrimination Statement 

    It is the policy of the Cedar Hill Independent School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability or age in its employment or in providing education or access to benefits of educational services, activities and programs. The following person is designated to handle inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies:


    Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources
    285 Uptown Blvd.
    Cedar Hill, TX 75104
    972-291-1581 (x4031)