Bill Text: TX HB515 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to assessment of public school students and providing accelerated instruction and eliminating performance requirements based on performance on certain assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 16-7)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-27 - Senate appoints conferees-reported [HB515 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB515-Comm_Sub.html
By: VanDeaver, et al. | H.B. No. 515 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Galveston) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
May 11, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 23, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; | ||
May 23, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 515 | By: Taylor of Galveston |
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relating to assessment of public school students and providing | ||
accelerated instruction and eliminating performance requirements | ||
based on performance on certain assessment instruments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 28.018 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28.0128. REVIEW AND REPORT ON SOCIAL STUDIES | ||
CURRICULUM. (a) The State Board of Education shall review the | ||
alignment and coursework included in the required social studies | ||
curriculum provided to students in grades 8 through 12 to ensure | ||
that all students graduating from public high school have a | ||
sufficient understanding of: | ||
(1) United States history; | ||
(2) civics; | ||
(3) the operation of federal and state governments; | ||
and | ||
(4) the free enterprise system. | ||
(b) If, in conducting the review, the State Board of | ||
Education determines that the required social studies curriculum is | ||
not sufficient, the board shall develop recommendations to realign | ||
coursework and curriculum. | ||
(c) Not later than September 1, 2018, the State Board of | ||
Education shall submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, | ||
the speaker of the house of representatives, and the standing | ||
legislative committees with primary jurisdiction over primary and | ||
secondary education a report on the results of the review conducted | ||
under Subsection (a) and any recommendations developed under | ||
Subsection (b). | ||
(d) This section expires September 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.023(e), Education Code, as effective | ||
September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows: | ||
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questions and answer keys to each assessment instrument | ||
administered under Subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), or (l), excluding | ||
any assessment instrument administered to a student for the purpose | ||
of retaking the assessment instrument, after the last time the | ||
instrument is administered for that school year. To ensure a valid | ||
bank of questions for use each year, the agency is not required to | ||
release a question that is being field-tested and was not used to | ||
compute the student's score on the instrument. The agency shall | ||
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being field-tested and that was not used to compute a student's | ||
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SECTION 3. Section 39.025, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (c-1) and (f) and adding Subsection (f-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c-1) A school district may not administer a general subject | ||
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under this section as this section existed before September 1, 2007 | ||
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perform satisfactorily on an assessment instrument described by | ||
this subsection an alternate assessment instrument designated by | ||
the commissioner as required by Subsection (f)(2). The | ||
commissioner shall determine the level of performance considered to | ||
be satisfactory on an alternate assessment instrument. [ |
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to districts information necessary to administer the alternate | ||
assessment instrument authorized by this subsection. The | ||
commissioner's determination regarding designation of an | ||
appropriate alternate assessment instrument under this subsection | ||
and the performance required on the assessment instrument is final | ||
and may not be appealed. | ||
(f) The commissioner shall by rule adopt a transition plan | ||
to implement the amendments made by Chapter 1312 (S.B. No. 1031), | ||
Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, replacing | ||
general subject assessment instruments administered at the high | ||
school level with end-of-course assessment instruments. The rules | ||
must provide for the end-of-course assessment instruments adopted | ||
under Section 39.023(c) to be administered beginning with students | ||
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2011-2012 school year. During the period under which the | ||
transition to end-of-course assessment instruments is made: | ||
(1) for students entering a grade above the ninth | ||
grade during the 2011-2012 school year, the commissioner |
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retain, administer, and use for purposes of accreditation and other | ||
campus and district accountability measures under this chapter the | ||
assessment instruments required by Section 39.023(a) or (c), as | ||
that section existed before amendment by Chapter 1312 (S.B. | ||
No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007; and | ||
(2) a student subject to Subdivision (1) may not | ||
receive a high school diploma unless the student has performed | ||
satisfactorily, as determined by the commissioner under Subsection | ||
(f-1), on an assessment instrument designated by the commissioner | ||
which must include, to the extent feasible, the SAT, the ACT, or the | ||
Texas Success Initiative (TSI) diagnostic assessment, or the | ||
assessment or assessments currently administered for graduation | ||
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administered. | ||
(f-1) The commissioner shall determine the level of | ||
performance considered to be satisfactory on an assessment | ||
instrument designated by the commissioner which must include, to | ||
the extent feasible, the SAT, the ACT, the Texas Success Initiative | ||
(TSI) diagnostic assessment, |
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currently administered for graduation purposes for a student | ||
described by Subsection (f)(1) to qualify for a high school | ||
diploma. In determining satisfactory performance, the | ||
commissioner shall ensure that the level of performance determined | ||
under this subsection as satisfactory is equivalent to the level of | ||
performance required under Subsection (a) for satisfactory | ||
performance on an end-of-course assessment instrument. | ||
Notwithstanding Subsection (f), the commissioner is not required to | ||
retain, administer, or use assessment instruments described by | ||
Subsection (f)(1) after September 1, 2017. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 51.3062(q-1), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(q-1) A student who has demonstrated the performance | ||
standard for college readiness as provided by Section 28.008 on the | ||
postsecondary readiness assessment instruments adopted under | ||
Section 39.0238 for Algebra II and English III, as that section | ||
existed before repeal by H.B. 515, Acts of the 85th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2017, is exempt from the requirements of this | ||
section with respect to those content areas. The commissioner of | ||
higher education by rule shall establish the period for which an | ||
exemption under this subsection is valid. | ||
SECTION 5. The following provision of the Education Code is | ||
repealed: | ||
(1) Section 39.0238. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 7. 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. | ||
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