Bill Text: TX SB925 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to providing training academies for public school teachers who provide reading instruction to students in kindergarten through grade three.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-21 - Effective immediately [SB925 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB925-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to providing training academies for public school teachers who provide reading instruction to students in kindergarten through grade three.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-21 - Effective immediately [SB925 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB925-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 925 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2015; March 9, 2015, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 20, 2015, | ||
reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 20, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 925 | By: Kolkhorst |
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relating to providing training academies for public school teachers | ||
who provide reading instruction to students in kindergarten through | ||
grade five. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 21.4552 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.4552. TEACHER LITERACY ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMIES. | ||
(a) The commissioner shall develop and make available literacy | ||
achievement academies for teachers who provide: | ||
(1) reading instruction to students at the | ||
kindergarten or first, second, or third grade level; and | ||
(2) reading comprehension instruction to students at | ||
the fourth or fifth grade level. | ||
(b) A literacy achievement academy developed under this | ||
section: | ||
(1) must include training in: | ||
(A) effective and systematic instructional | ||
practices in reading, including phonemic awareness, phonics, | ||
fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension; and | ||
(B) the use of empirically validated | ||
instructional methods that are appropriate for struggling readers; | ||
and | ||
(2) may include training in effective instructional | ||
practices in writing. | ||
(c) The commissioner shall adopt criteria for selecting | ||
teachers who may attend a literacy achievement academy. In | ||
adopting selection criteria under this subsection, the | ||
commissioner shall require granting a priority to teachers employed | ||
by a school district at a campus at which 50 percent or more of the | ||
students enrolled are educationally disadvantaged. | ||
(d) From funds appropriated for that purpose, a teacher who | ||
attends a literacy achievement academy is entitled to receive a | ||
stipend in the amount determined by the commissioner. A stipend | ||
received under this subsection is not considered in determining | ||
whether a school district is paying the teacher the minimum monthly | ||
salary under Section 21.402. | ||
(e) On request of the commissioner, regional education | ||
service centers shall assist the commissioner and agency with | ||
training and other activities relating to the development and | ||
operation of literacy achievement academies. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2015. | ||
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