Bill Text: TX HB4839 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the accountability system for public school educator preparation programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB4839 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4839-Introduced.html
88R12591 BDP-F | ||
By: Hinojosa | H.B. No. 4839 |
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relating to the accountability system for public school educator | ||
preparation programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.045(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The board shall propose rules necessary to establish | ||
standards to govern the continuing accountability of all educator | ||
preparation programs based on the following information that is | ||
disaggregated with respect to race, sex, and ethnicity: | ||
(1) results of the certification examinations | ||
prescribed under Section 21.048(a); | ||
(2) performance based on the appraisal system for | ||
beginning teachers adopted by the board; | ||
(3) achievement, including improvement in | ||
achievement, of all students, including students with | ||
disabilities, taught by beginning teachers for the first three | ||
years following certification, to the extent practicable; | ||
(4) compliance with board requirements regarding the | ||
frequency, duration, and quality of structural guidance and ongoing | ||
support provided by field supervisors to candidates completing | ||
student teaching, clinical teaching, or an internship; [ |
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(5) results from a teacher satisfaction survey, | ||
developed by the board with stakeholder input, of new teachers | ||
performed at the end of the teacher's first year of teaching; and | ||
(6) compliance with board requirements regarding the | ||
quality of a candidate's implementation of the key components of a | ||
performance assessment identified by the board to be completed | ||
before the candidate serves as a classroom teacher who is | ||
responsible for evaluating student achievement and improvement and | ||
assigning grades. | ||
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, 2023. |