Bill Text: TX HB404 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to higher education curriculum review teams to review public school curriculum standards for college readiness purposes.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB404 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB404-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Anchia, Perez, Allen, et al. | H.B. No. 404 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 404: | |||
| By: Dutton | C.S.H.B. No. 404 | ||
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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 28.0025 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 28.0025. HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM REVIEW TEAMS. | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Board" means the State Board of Education. | ||
| (2) "Institution of higher education" and "private or | ||
| independent institution of higher education" have the meanings | ||
| assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) For each subject undergoing a review for the purpose of | ||
| identifying and adopting the essential knowledge and skills of a | ||
| subject of the foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1), | ||
| the board shall appoint a higher education curriculum review team | ||
| to review and make recommendations to the board concerning the | ||
| essential knowledge and skills to ensure that proposed essential | ||
| knowledge and skills: | ||
| (1) are factually accurate and aligned with | ||
| contemporary scholarship; | ||
| (2) are aligned with college and career readiness | ||
| standards and serve to prepare students for college; and | ||
| (3) serve appropriate instructional purposes. | ||
| (c) Each higher education curriculum review team shall | ||
| consist of not fewer than 5 and not more than 10 faculty members of | ||
| institutions of higher education or private or independent | ||
| institutions of higher education. The board shall make the | ||
| appointments to each higher education curriculum review team from | ||
| among persons nominated by the commissioner or the commissioner of | ||
| higher education. | ||
| (d) Each member nominated by the commissioner must have in | ||
| the subject under review: | ||
| (1) at least five years of teaching experience; and | ||
| (2) credentials that satisfy the faculty credential | ||
| guidelines established by the Commission on Colleges of the | ||
| Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. | ||
| (e) Each member nominated by the commissioner of higher | ||
| education must have in the subject under review: | ||
| (1) at least five years of higher education teaching | ||
| experience; and | ||
| (2) credentials that satisfy the faculty credential | ||
| guidelines established by the Commission on Colleges of the | ||
| Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. | ||
| (f) In selecting their respective nominees for a higher | ||
| education curriculum review team, the commissioner and the | ||
| commissioner of higher education shall each: | ||
| (1) attempt to achieve a balanced combination of | ||
| educational perspectives, including by geographic area, race, and | ||
| sex; and | ||
| (2) give preference to nominees who have teaching | ||
| experience in this state at an institution of higher education or a | ||
| private or independent institution of higher education. | ||
| (g) At times and places determined by the chair of the | ||
| board, before and after the board considers on first reading | ||
| proposed essential knowledge and skills of a subject for which a | ||
| higher education curriculum review team has been appointed under | ||
| this section, that higher education curriculum review team shall | ||
| meet to review the proposed essential knowledge and skills. The | ||
| team shall submit to the board the results of the team's review and | ||
| any recommendations for changes. The board may consider the team's | ||
| recommendations in adopting the proposed essential knowledge and | ||
| skills. | ||
| (h) The agency shall post on the agency's Internet website | ||
| the recommendations of each higher education curriculum review | ||
| team. | ||
| (i) The commissioner and the commissioner of higher | ||
| education shall coordinate with the board 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, 2017. | ||
