81R8598 CAS-D
By: Brown of Brazos H.B. No. 1216
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to curriculum requirements for the recommended and
advanced public high school programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.025(b-1), Education Code, is 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) a science and mathematics curriculum that
prescribes, among other requirements established by the board,
successful completion of four courses in mathematics and four
courses in science, from among courses approved for each subject by
the board [of the foundation curriculum under Section
28.002(a)(1)];
(B) a career and technology curriculum
that prescribes, among other requirements established by the
board, successful completion of four career and technology courses,
three courses in mathematics, and three courses in science, from
among courses approved for each subject by the board; or
(C) a humanities curriculum that prescribes,
among other requirements established by the board, successful
completion of:
(i) courses in English language arts,
social studies, languages other than English, and fine arts, from
among courses approved for each subject by the board; and
(ii) three courses in mathematics and three
courses in science from among courses approved for each subject by
the board; and
(2) one or more courses offered in the required
curriculum for the recommended and advanced high school programs
include a research writing component.
SECTION 2. Section 28.025(b-2), Education Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. 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 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, 2009.