Bill Text: TX SB1620 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to substitution of certain career and technology courses for certain mathematics and science courses otherwise required under the recommended high school program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB1620 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1620-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to substitution of certain career and technology courses for certain mathematics and science courses otherwise required under the recommended high school program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB1620 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1620-Introduced.html
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By: Duncan | S.B. No. 1620 |
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relating to an approval process for substitution of certain career | ||
and technology courses for mathematics and science courses | ||
otherwise required under the recommended and advanced high school | ||
programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 28.027 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28.027. APPLIED SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND | ||
MATHEMATICS COURSES. (a) In this section, "applied STEM course" | ||
means an applied science, technology, engineering, or mathematics | ||
course offered as part of a school district's career and technology | ||
education curriculum. | ||
(b) The State Board of Education shall establish a process | ||
under which an applied STEM course may be reviewed and approved for | ||
purposes of satisfying the mathematics and science curriculum | ||
requirements for the recommended and advanced high school programs | ||
imposed under Section 28.025(b-1)(1)(A) through substitution of | ||
the applied STEM course for a specific mathematics or science | ||
course otherwise required under those programs. | ||
(c) The process must provide that an applied STEM course is | ||
entitled to be approved for the purpose described by Subsection (b) | ||
if the course meets the following requirements: | ||
(1) the applied STEM course is part of a curriculum | ||
created by a recognized national or international business and | ||
industry group to prepare a student for a national or international | ||
business and industry certification or license; | ||
(2) the applied STEM course qualifies as: | ||
(A) an international baccalaureate, advanced | ||
placement, or dual credit course; or | ||
(B) an articulated postsecondary course provided | ||
for local credit or articulated postsecondary advanced technical | ||
credit course provided for state credit; | ||
(3) the essential knowledge and skills covered in the | ||
applied STEM course are equivalent to the essential knowledge and | ||
skills covered in the mathematics or science course for which the | ||
applied STEM course is proposed to be approved for substitution; | ||
and | ||
(4) if the applied STEM course is proposed for | ||
substitution for a mathematics or science course typically taken by | ||
a student in the student's fourth year of high school, the applied | ||
STEM course must: | ||
(A) provide substantial mathematics content or | ||
science content, as applicable, taught in an applied or symbolic | ||
format, that enables a student to develop relevant critical | ||
thinking skills necessary for preparation for employment or | ||
additional training in a career identified by the Texas Workforce | ||
Commission as a high-demand or emerging occupation; and | ||
(B) incorporate college and career readiness | ||
skills. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 28.025(b-2), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b-2) In adopting rules under Subsection (b-1), the State | ||
Board of Education shall allow a student to comply with the | ||
curriculum requirements for a mathematics [ |
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completing an advanced career and technical course designated by | ||
the State Board of Education as containing substantively similar | ||
and rigorous academic content. [ |
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SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2012, the | ||
commissioner of education shall establish and implement the process | ||
required by Section 28.027, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2011. |