Bill Text: TX HB1054 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to continuing education requirements for educators.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-05 - Reported favorably as substituted [HB1054 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1054-Introduced.html
  82R3901 VOO-D
 
  By: Patrick H.B. No. 1054
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to continuing education requirements for educators.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.054, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsections (b), (c), and (d) to read as follows:
         (b)  Continuing education requirements for an educator must
  provide that 25 percent of the training required every five years
  include instruction regarding:
               (1)  collecting and analyzing information that will
  improve effectiveness in the classroom;
               (2)  integrating technology into classroom
  instruction;
               (3)  educating diverse student populations, including:
                     (A)  students with disabilities;
                     (B)  students who are economically disadvantaged;
  and
                     (C)  students of limited English proficiency; and
               (4)  the subject area taught by the educator.
         (c)  Continuing education requirements each year for an
  educator primarily employed at a school campus that for more than
  two consecutive years has failed to meet a Performance-Based
  Monitoring Analysis System indicator standard established by the
  commissioner or a standard established by the commissioner under
  Section 39.053(e) or (f) must include training specifically
  developed to assist the educator in improving campus performance on
  the indicators and standards.
         (d)  Continuing education requirements for an educator each
  year must be linked to any areas identified in the educator's
  appraisal as needing improvement.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2012, the State Board
  for Educator Certification shall propose rules implementing
  Section 21.054, Education Code, as amended by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  An educator subject to continuing education
  requirements immediately before the effective date of this Act is
  not required to comply with the continuing education requirements
  described by Section 21.054(b), Education Code, as added by this
  Act, for any continuing education requirements period that ends
  before January 1, 2015.
         SECTION 4.  An educator subject to continuing education
  requirements immediately before the effective date of this Act is
  not required to comply with the continuing education requirements
  described by Section 21.054(c) or (d), Education Code, as added by
  this Act, for any continuing education requirements period that
  ends before January 1, 2014.
         SECTION 5.  This Act applies beginning with the 2012-2013
  school year.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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