Bill Text: TX SB1348 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-05 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1348 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1348-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Van de Putte  S.B. No. 1348
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2011; March 22, 2011, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
  April 26, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 2; April 26, 2011,
  sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1348 By:  Watson
 
 
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 28.0024 to read as follows:
         Sec. 28.0024.  HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM REVIEW TEAMS.
  (a)  For each subject undergoing a review for the purpose of
  identifying and adopting the essential knowledge and skills of a
  subject of the required curriculum under Section 28.002, the
  commissioner of higher education shall appoint a higher education
  curriculum review team to review and make recommendations to the
  State Board of Education concerning the essential knowledge and
  skills to ensure that proposed essential knowledge and skills:
               (1)  are factually accurate and aligned with
  contemporary scholarship;
               (2)  serve to prepare students for college; and
               (3)  serve appropriate instructional purposes.
         (b)  Each higher education curriculum review team shall
  consist of not fewer than five and not more than 10 faculty members
  of institutions of higher education or private or independent
  institutions of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003.
  Each member appointed to a team must have:
               (1)  at least five years of higher education teaching
  experience in the subject under review and a terminal degree in that
  subject; or
               (2)  at least five years of higher education teaching
  experience in the field of education and a doctoral degree in
  education.
         (c)  For each higher education curriculum review team, a
  public institution of higher education or private or independent
  institution of higher education may nominate one faculty member
  qualified under Subsection (b).  A nomination made under this
  subsection must be submitted to the commissioner of higher
  education together with a document of not more than one page
  detailing the faculty member's experience, including specific
  experience with the subject under review by the team.
         (d)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in
  collaboration with the commissioner of education, shall develop and
  post on the board's Internet website a blind scoring system,
  including the criteria on which the scoring is based, for ranking
  nominations made under Subsection (c).
         (e)  The commissioner of higher education, based on the
  system developed under Subsection (d), shall make the appointments
  to each higher education curriculum review team from among persons
  nominated by institutions of higher education or private or
  independent institutions of higher education under this section.
         (f)  Notwithstanding Subsections (c) and (e), if the subject
  under review by a higher education curriculum review team is career
  and technical education, at least one member of the team must be
  selected from each of the following institutions:
               (1)  Texas State Technical College System; and
               (2)  Lamar Institute of Technology.
         (g)  In selecting appointees for a higher education
  curriculum review team, the commissioner of higher education shall
  attempt to achieve a balanced combination of educational
  perspectives.
         (h)  Each higher education curriculum review team shall,
  before final identification and adoption of the essential knowledge
  and skills by the State Board of Education, make recommendations to
  the State Board of Education concerning the essential knowledge and
  skills.
         (i)  The agency shall post on the agency's Internet website
  the recommendations of each higher education curriculum review
  team.
         (j)  The commissioner of higher education shall coordinate
  with the State Board of Education 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 September 1, 2011.
 
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