Bill Text: TX HB884 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a revision of the essential knowledge and skills of the public school foundation curriculum and proclamations for the production of instructional materials.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Received from the House [HB884 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB884-Introduced.html

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85R2493 CAE-D
By: King of Hemphill H.B. No. 884

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a revision of the essential knowledge and skills of the
public school foundation curriculum and proclamations for the
production of instructional materials.
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. REVIEW AND REVISION OF ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE
AND SKILLS. (a) The State Board of Education shall:
(1) conduct a review of the essential knowledge and
skills for the foundation curriculum adopted under Section
28.002(a)(1); and
(2) revise the essential knowledge and skills for that
curriculum to narrow the number and scope of student expectations
for each subject and grade level in accordance with this section.
(b) The scope of the essential knowledge and skills for each
subject and grade level of the foundation curriculum must:
(1) be more narrow than the scope of the essential
knowledge and skills adopted as of January 1, 2017; and
(2) require less time for a demonstration of mastery
than required for the essential knowledge and skills adopted as of
January 1, 2017.
(c) In complying with this section, the State Board of
Education shall:
(1) ensure that a revision of the essential knowledge
and skills for the foundation curriculum does not result in a need
for the adoption of new instructional materials;
(2) consider for each subject and grade level, the
time:
(A) a teacher would require to provide
comprehensive instruction on a particular student expectation; and
(B) a typical student would require to master a
particular student expectation;
(3) determine whether, in light of the consideration
required by Subdivision (2), each essential knowledge and skill of
a subject can be comprehensively taught within the instruction time
required under Section 25.081, not including the amount of time
required for testing;
(4) determine whether the college and career readiness
standards have been appropriately integrated in the essential
knowledge and skills for each subject and grade level; and
(5) consider whether an assessment instrument
administered under Section 39.023 adequately assesses a particular
student expectation.
(d) Not later than September 1, 2020, the State Board of
Education shall complete the review and revision of the essential
knowledge and skills for each subject and grade level of the
foundation curriculum that was last revised before September 1,
2014.
(e) This section expires September 1, 2021.
SECTION 2. Section 31.002, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subdivision (1-b) to read as follows:
(1-b) "Proclamation" means a request for production of
instructional materials issued by the State Board of Education.
SECTION 3. Section 31.022, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (b-1), (b-2), and (b-3) and amending Subsection
(f) to read as follows:
(b-1) For any state fiscal biennium, the board may only
issue proclamations for instructional materials in which the total
projected cost of instructional materials under the proclamations
does not exceed 75 percent of the total amount used to fund the
instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211 for that
biennium.
(b-2) Following the adoption of revised essential knowledge
and skills for any subject, the board shall determine whether
issuance of a proclamation is necessary based on the significance
of the changes to the essential knowledge and skills. If the board
determines a proclamation is necessary, the board shall issue:
(1) a full call for instructional materials aligned to
all of the essential knowledge and skills for the subject and grade
level;
(2) a supplemental call for instructional materials
aligned to new or expanded essential knowledge and skills for the
subject and grade level;
(3) a call for new information demonstrating alignment
of current instructional materials to the revised essential
knowledge and skills; or
(4) any combination of the calls described by
Subdivisions (1), (2), and (3).
(b-3) In determining the disbursement of money to the
available school fund and the amount of that disbursement that will
be used, in accordance with Section 43.001(d), to fund the
instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211, the board
must consider the cost of all instructional materials and
technology requirements for that state fiscal biennium.
(f) The board shall amend any proclamation [request for
production] issued for the purchase of instructional materials to
conform to the instructional materials funding levels provided by
the General Appropriations Act for the year of implementation and
to comply with Subsection (b-1).
SECTION 4. Sections 31.101(d) and (e), Education Code, are
repealed.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.