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1	1	By: Van de Putte S.B. No. 1348
2	2	(In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2011; March 22, 2011, read
3	3	first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
4	4	April 26, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5	5	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 2; April 26, 2011,
6	6	sent to printer.)
7	7	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1348 By: Watson
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10	10	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	11	AN ACT
12	12	relating to higher education curriculum review teams to review
13	13	public school curriculum standards for college readiness purposes.
14	14	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	15	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
16	16	amended by adding Section 28.0024 to read as follows:
17	17	Sec. 28.0024. HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM REVIEW TEAMS.
18	18	(a) For each subject undergoing a review for the purpose of
19	19	identifying and adopting the essential knowledge and skills of a
20	20	subject of the required curriculum under Section 28.002, the
21	21	commissioner of higher education shall appoint a higher education
22	22	curriculum review team to review and make recommendations to the
23	23	State Board of Education concerning the essential knowledge and
24	24	skills to ensure that proposed essential knowledge and skills:
25	25	(1) are factually accurate and aligned with
26	26	contemporary scholarship;
27	27	(2) serve to prepare students for college; and
28	28	(3) serve appropriate instructional purposes.
29	29	(b) Each higher education curriculum review team shall
30	30	consist of not fewer than five and not more than 10 faculty members
31	31	of institutions of higher education or private or independent
32	32	institutions of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003.
33	33	Each member appointed to a team must have:
34	34	(1) at least five years of higher education teaching
35	35	experience in the subject under review and a terminal degree in that
36	36	subject; or
37	37	(2) at least five years of higher education teaching
38	38	experience in the field of education and a doctoral degree in
39	39	education.
40	40	(c) For each higher education curriculum review team, a
41	41	public institution of higher education or private or independent
42	42	institution of higher education may nominate one faculty member
43	43	qualified under Subsection (b). A nomination made under this
44	44	subsection must be submitted to the commissioner of higher
45	45	education together with a document of not more than one page
46	46	detailing the faculty member's experience, including specific
47	47	experience with the subject under review by the team.
48	48	(d) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in
49	49	collaboration with the commissioner of education, shall develop and
50	50	post on the board's Internet website a blind scoring system,
51	51	including the criteria on which the scoring is based, for ranking
52	52	nominations made under Subsection (c).
53	53	(e) The commissioner of higher education, based on the
54	54	system developed under Subsection (d), shall make the appointments
55	55	to each higher education curriculum review team from among persons
56	56	nominated by institutions of higher education or private or
57	57	independent institutions of higher education under this section.
58	58	(f) Notwithstanding Subsections (c) and (e), if the subject
59	59	under review by a higher education curriculum review team is career
60	60	and technical education, at least one member of the team must be
61	61	selected from each of the following institutions:
62	62	(1) Texas State Technical College System; and
63	63	(2) Lamar Institute of Technology.
64	64	(g) In selecting appointees for a higher education
65	65	curriculum review team, the commissioner of higher education shall
66	66	attempt to achieve a balanced combination of educational
67	67	perspectives.
68	68	(h) Each higher education curriculum review team shall,
69	69	before final identification and adoption of the essential knowledge
70	70	and skills by the State Board of Education, make recommendations to
71	71	the State Board of Education concerning the essential knowledge and
72	72	skills.
73	73	(i) The agency shall post on the agency's Internet website
74	74	the recommendations of each higher education curriculum review
75	75	team.
76	76	(j) The commissioner of higher education shall coordinate
77	77	with the State Board of Education as necessary for the
78	78	administration of this section.
79	79	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
80	80	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
81	81	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
82	82	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
83	83	Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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