Bill Text: TX HB173 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 173 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to higher education curriculum review teams to review public school curriculum standards for college readiness purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-20 - Referred to Public Education [HB173 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB173-Introduced.html

	85S10692 MM-F

	By: Anchia	H.B. No. 173



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to higher education curriculum review teams to review
	public school curriculum standards for college readiness purposes.
	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. HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM REVIEW TEAMS.
	(a) In this section:
	(1) "Board" means the State Board of Education.
	(2) "Institution of higher education" and "private or
	independent institution of higher education" have the meanings
	assigned by Section 61.003.
	(b) For each subject undergoing a review for the purpose of
	identifying and adopting the essential knowledge and skills of a
	subject of the foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1),
	the board shall appoint a higher education curriculum review team
	to review and make recommendations to the board concerning the
	essential knowledge and skills to ensure that proposed essential
	knowledge and skills:
	(1) are factually accurate and aligned with
	contemporary scholarship;
	(2) are aligned with college and career readiness
	standards and serve to prepare students for college; and
	(3) serve appropriate instructional purposes.
	(c) Each higher education curriculum review team shall
	consist of not fewer than 5 and not more than 10 faculty members of
	institutions of higher education or private or independent
	institutions of higher education. The board shall make the
	appointments to each higher education curriculum review team from
	among persons nominated by the commissioner or the commissioner of
	higher education.
	(d) Each member nominated by the commissioner must have in
	the subject under review:
	(1) at least five years of teaching experience; and
	(2) credentials that satisfy the faculty credential
	guidelines established by the Commission on Colleges of the
	Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
	(e) Each member nominated by the commissioner of higher
	education must have in the subject under review:
	(1) at least five years of higher education teaching
	experience; and
	(2) credentials that satisfy the faculty credential
	guidelines established by the Commission on Colleges of the
	Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
	(f) In selecting their respective nominees for a higher
	education curriculum review team, the commissioner and the
	commissioner of higher education shall each:
	(1) attempt to achieve a balanced combination of
	educational perspectives, including by geographic area, race, and
	sex; and
	(2) give preference to nominees who have teaching
	experience in this state at an institution of higher education or a
	private or independent institution of higher education.
	(g) At times and places determined by the chair of the
	board, before and after the board considers on first reading
	proposed essential knowledge and skills of a subject for which a
	higher education curriculum review team has been appointed under
	this section, that higher education curriculum review team shall
	meet to review the proposed essential knowledge and skills. The
	team shall submit to the board the results of the team's review and
	any recommendations for changes. The board may consider the team's
	recommendations in adopting the proposed essential knowledge and
	skills.
	(h) The agency shall post on the agency's Internet website
	the recommendations of each higher education curriculum review
	team.
	(i) The commissioner and the commissioner of higher
	education shall coordinate with the board as necessary for the
	administration of this section.
	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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
	legislative session.