Bill Text: TX HB3263 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to higher education curriculum review teams to review public school curriculum standards for college readiness purposes.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-13 - Left pending in committee [HB3263 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3263-Introduced.html
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| By: Strama | H.B. No. 3263 | |
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| relating to higher education curriculum review teams to review | ||
| public school curriculum standards for college readiness purposes. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 28.0024 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 28.0024. HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM REVIEW TEAMS. | ||
| (a) For each subject undergoing a review for the purpose of | ||
| identifying and adopting the essential knowledge and skills of a | ||
| subject of the required curriculum under Section 28.002, the | ||
| commissioner of higher education shall appoint a higher education | ||
| curriculum review team to review and make recommendations to the | ||
| State Board of Education concerning the essential knowledge and | ||
| skills to ensure that proposed essential knowledge and skills: | ||
| (1) are factually accurate and aligned with | ||
| contemporary scholarship; | ||
| (2) serve to prepare students for college; and | ||
| (3) serve appropriate instructional purposes. | ||
| (b) Each higher education curriculum review team shall | ||
| consist of not fewer than five and not more than 10 faculty members | ||
| of institutions of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003. | ||
| Each member appointed to a team must have: | ||
| (1) at least five years of higher education teaching | ||
| experience in the subject under review and a terminal degree in that | ||
| subject; or | ||
| (2) at least five years of higher education teaching | ||
| experience in the field of education and a doctoral degree in | ||
| education. | ||
| (c) For each higher education curriculum review team, a | ||
| public institution of higher education may nominate one faculty | ||
| member qualified under Subsection (b). A nomination made under | ||
| this subsection must be submitted to the commissioner of higher | ||
| education together with a document of not more than one page | ||
| detailing the faculty member's experience, including specific | ||
| experience with the subject under review by the team. | ||
| (d) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall | ||
| develop and post on the board's Internet website a blind scoring | ||
| system for ranking nominations made under Subsection (c) by level | ||
| of expertise in the subject under review by each higher education | ||
| curriculum review team. | ||
| (e) The commissioner of higher education, based on the | ||
| system developed under Subsection (d), shall make the appointments | ||
| to each higher education curriculum review team from among persons | ||
| nominated by institutions of higher education under this section. | ||
| (f) Notwithstanding Subsections (c) and (e), if the subject | ||
| under review by a higher education curriculum review team is career | ||
| and technical education, at least one member of the team must be | ||
| selected from each of the following institutions: | ||
| (1) Texas State Technical College System; and | ||
| (2) Lamar Institute of Technology. | ||
| (g) In selecting appointees for a higher education | ||
| curriculum review team, the commissioner of higher education shall | ||
| attempt to achieve a balanced combination of educational | ||
| perspectives. | ||
| (h) Each higher education curriculum review team shall, | ||
| before final identification and adoption of the essential knowledge | ||
| and skills by the State Board of Education, make recommendations to | ||
| the State Board of Education concerning the essential knowledge and | ||
| skills. | ||
| (i) The agency shall post on the agency's Internet website | ||
| the recommendations of each higher education curriculum review | ||
| team. | ||
| (j) The commissioner of higher education shall coordinate | ||
| with the State Board of Education as necessary for the | ||
| administration of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
