By: Vo H.B. No. 1102
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirements for the recommended and advanced
public high school programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 28.025(b-1) and (b-2), Education Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(b-1) The State Board of Education by rule shall require
that:
(1) except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the
curriculum requirements for the recommended and advanced high
school programs under Subsection (a) include a requirement that
students successfully complete:
(A) four courses in each subject of the
foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1); or
(B) a career and technology curriculum that:
(i) provides a program of rigorous,
standards-based coursework designed to prepare students for
obtaining a license, certificate, or credential required for
employment in a field of business or industry; and
(ii) prescribes successful completion of
three courses in mathematics, three courses in science, and four
courses in each other subject of the foundation curriculum under
Section 28.002(a)(1); and
(2) one or more courses offered in the required
curriculum for the recommended and advanced high school programs
include a research writing component.
(b-2) In adopting rules under Subsection (b-1), the State
Board of Education shall allow a student to comply with the
curriculum requirements for a mathematics course under Subsection
(b-1)(1)(A) [(b-1)(1)] taken after the successful completion of an
Algebra II course or science course under Subsection (b-1)(1)(A)
[(b-1)(1)] taken after the successful completion of a physics
course by successfully completing an advanced career and technology
[technical] course designated by the State Board of Education as
containing substantively similar and rigorous academic content. A
student may use the option provided by this subsection for not more
than two courses.
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2010, the State Board
of Education shall adopt rules as required by Section 28.025(b-1),
Education Code, as amended by this Act. The rules shall provide
that the curriculum requirements for the recommended and advanced
high school programs adopted under that subsection apply to a
student regardless of the school year in which the student entered
the ninth grade.
SECTION 3. 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, 2009.