Bill Text: TX HB404 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to higher education curriculum review teams to review public school curriculum standards for college readiness purposes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB404 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB404-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to higher education curriculum review teams to review public school curriculum standards for college readiness purposes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB404 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB404-Introduced.html
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By: Anchia | 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, "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 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. | ||
(c) 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 or private or independent | ||
institutions of higher education. 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. | ||
(d) For each higher education curriculum review team, an | ||
institution of higher education or private or independent | ||
institution of higher education may nominate one faculty member | ||
qualified under Subsection (c). 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. | ||
(e) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in | ||
collaboration with the commissioner of higher education, shall | ||
develop and post on the board's Internet website a blind scoring | ||
system, including the criteria on which the scoring is based, for | ||
ranking nominations made under Subsection (d). | ||
(f) The commissioner of higher education, based on the | ||
system developed under Subsection (e), shall make the appointments | ||
to each higher education curriculum review team from among persons | ||
nominated by institutions of higher education or private or | ||
independent institutions of higher education under this section. | ||
(g) Notwithstanding Subsections (d) and (f), 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. | ||
(h) 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. | ||
(i) 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. | ||
(j) The agency shall post on the agency's Internet website | ||
the recommendations of each higher education curriculum review | ||
team. | ||
(k) 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, 2017. |