Bill Text: TX SB1903 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to statewide goals for dual credit programs provided by school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-03 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB1903 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1903-Comm_Sub.html
| By: West | S.B. No. 1903 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 23, 2017, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 3, 2017, | ||
| reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; | ||
| May 3, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to statewide goals for dual credit programs provided by | ||
| school districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 28.009, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) The agency and the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board jointly shall develop statewide goals for dual | ||
| credit programs, including early college high school programs, | ||
| career and technical education dual credit programs, and joint high | ||
| school and college credit programs provided under Section 130.008, | ||
| to provide uniform standards for evaluating those programs. The | ||
| goals must address, at a minimum: | ||
| (1) a dual credit program's achievement of enrollment | ||
| in and acceleration through postsecondary education; | ||
| (2) performance in college-level coursework; and | ||
| (3) the development of an effective bridge between | ||
| secondary and postsecondary education in the state. | ||
| (b-2) Any agreement, including a memorandum of | ||
| understanding or articulation agreement, between a school district | ||
| and public institution of higher education to provide a dual credit | ||
| program described by Subsection (b-1) must: | ||
| (1) include specific program goals aligned with the | ||
| statewide goals developed under Subsection (b-1); | ||
| (2) establish, or provide a procedure for | ||
| establishing, the course credits that may be earned under the | ||
| agreement, including by developing a course equivalency crosswalk | ||
| or other method for equating high school courses with college | ||
| courses and identifying the number of credits that may be earned for | ||
| each course completed through the program; | ||
| (3) describe the academic supports and, if applicable, | ||
| guidance that will be provided to students participating in the | ||
| program; | ||
| (4) establish the district's and the institution's | ||
| respective roles and responsibilities in providing the program and | ||
| ensuring the quality and instructional rigor of the program; | ||
| (5) state the sources of funding for courses offered | ||
| under the program, including, at a minimum, the sources of funding | ||
| for tuition, transportation, and any required fees or textbooks for | ||
| students participating in the program; and | ||
| (6) be posted each year on the district's and the | ||
| institution's respective Internet websites. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than August 31, 2018, the Texas | ||
| Education Agency and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
| jointly shall develop the statewide goals required under Section | ||
| 28.009(b-1), Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 28.009(b-2), Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to an agreement to provide a dual credit | ||
| program entered into or renewed on or after September 1, 2018. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
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