Bill Text: TX SB1839 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the preparation, certification, and classification of and professional development for public school educators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1839 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1839-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the preparation, certification, and classification of and professional development for public school educators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1839 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1839-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hughes | S.B. No. 1839 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 23, 2017, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 1, 2017, | ||
reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 1, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1839 | By: Hughes |
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relating to the preparation, certification, and classification of | ||
public school educators. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.043, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.043. ACCESS TO PEIMS DATA. (a) The agency shall | ||
provide the board with access to data obtained under the Public | ||
Education Information Management System (PEIMS). | ||
(b) The agency shall provide educator preparation programs | ||
with data based on information reported through the Public | ||
Education Information Management System (PEIMS) that enables an | ||
educator preparation program to: | ||
(1) assess the impact of the program; and | ||
(2) revise the program as needed to improve the design | ||
and effectiveness of the program. | ||
(c) The agency in coordination with the board shall solicit | ||
input from educator preparation programs to determine the | ||
information to be reported through the Public Education Information | ||
Management System (PEIMS) and the data to be provided to educator | ||
preparation programs based on that information. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 21.045, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) To assist an educator preparation program in improving | ||
the design and effectiveness of the program in preparing educators | ||
for the classroom, the agency shall provide to each program data | ||
that is compiled and analyzed by the agency based on information | ||
reported through the Public Education Information Management | ||
System (PEIMS) relating to the program. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 21.0489 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.0489. EARLY CHILDHOOD CERTIFICATION. (a) To | ||
ensure that there are teachers with special training in early | ||
childhood education focusing on prekindergarten through grade | ||
three, the board shall establish an early childhood certificate. | ||
(b) A person is not required to hold a certificate | ||
established under this section to be employed by a school district | ||
to provide instruction in prekindergarten through grade three. | ||
(c) To be eligible for a certificate established under this | ||
section, a person must: | ||
(1) either: | ||
(A) satisfactorily complete the course work for | ||
that certificate in an educator preparation program, including a | ||
knowledge-based and skills-based course of instruction on early | ||
childhood education that includes: | ||
(i) teaching methods for: | ||
(a) using small group instructional | ||
formats that focus on building social, emotional, and academic | ||
skills; | ||
(b) navigating multiple content | ||
areas; and | ||
(c) managing a classroom environment | ||
in which small groups of students are working on different tasks; | ||
and | ||
(ii) strategies for teaching fundamental | ||
academic skills, including reading, writing, and numeracy; or | ||
(B) hold an early childhood through grade six | ||
certificate issued under this subchapter and satisfactorily | ||
complete a course of instruction described by Paragraph (A); | ||
(2) perform satisfactorily on an early childhood | ||
certificate examination prescribed by the board; and | ||
(3) satisfy any other requirements prescribed by the | ||
board. | ||
(d) The criteria for the course of instruction described by | ||
Subsection (c)(1)(A) shall be developed by the board in | ||
consultation with faculty members who provide instruction at | ||
institutions of higher education in educator preparation programs | ||
for an early childhood through grade six certificate. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 21.052, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) The commissioner may adopt rules establishing | ||
exceptions to the examination requirements prescribed by | ||
Subsection (a)(3) for an educator from outside the state to obtain a | ||
certificate in this state. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 30A.112(b), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) The state virtual school network may provide or | ||
authorize providers of electronic professional development courses | ||
to provide professional development for: | ||
(1) teachers who are teaching subjects or grade levels | ||
for which the teachers are not certified; or | ||
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1400 | ||
et seq.). | ||
SECTION 6. The following provisions of the Education Code | ||
are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 21.005; | ||
(2) Section 21.052(g); and | ||
(3) Section 21.057(e). | ||
SECTION 7. The State Board for Educator Certification shall | ||
propose rules: | ||
(1) establishing requirements and prescribing an | ||
examination for an early childhood certificate examination as | ||
required by Section 21.0489, Education Code, as added by this Act; | ||
and | ||
(2) establishing standards to govern the approval and | ||
renewal of approval of educator preparation programs for early | ||
childhood certification. | ||
SECTION 8. The commissioner of education is required to | ||
implement Sections 1 and 2 of this Act only if the legislature | ||
appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the | ||
legislature does not appropriate money specifically for the purpose | ||
of implementing Sections 1 and 2 of this Act, the commissioner of | ||
education may, but is not required to, implement those sections | ||
using other appropriations available for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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