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1	1	85R2493 CAE-D
2	2	By: King of Hemphill H.B. No. 884
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to a revision of the essential knowledge and skills of the
8	8	public school foundation curriculum and proclamations for the
9	9	production of instructional materials.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
12	12	amended by adding Section 28.0025 to read as follows:
13	13	Sec. 28.0025. REVIEW AND REVISION OF ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE
14	14	AND SKILLS. (a) The State Board of Education shall:
15	15	(1) conduct a review of the essential knowledge and
16	16	skills for the foundation curriculum adopted under Section
17	17	28.002(a)(1); and
18	18	(2) revise the essential knowledge and skills for that
19	19	curriculum to narrow the number and scope of student expectations
20	20	for each subject and grade level in accordance with this section.
21	21	(b) The scope of the essential knowledge and skills for each
22	22	subject and grade level of the foundation curriculum must:
23	23	(1) be more narrow than the scope of the essential
24	24	knowledge and skills adopted as of January 1, 2017; and
25	25	(2) require less time for a demonstration of mastery
26	26	than required for the essential knowledge and skills adopted as of
27	27	January 1, 2017.
28	28	(c) In complying with this section, the State Board of
29	29	Education shall:
30	30	(1) ensure that a revision of the essential knowledge
31	31	and skills for the foundation curriculum does not result in a need
32	32	for the adoption of new instructional materials;
33	33	(2) consider for each subject and grade level, the
34	34	time:
35	35	(A) a teacher would require to provide
36	36	comprehensive instruction on a particular student expectation; and
37	37	(B) a typical student would require to master a
38	38	particular student expectation;
39	39	(3) determine whether, in light of the consideration
40	40	required by Subdivision (2), each essential knowledge and skill of
41	41	a subject can be comprehensively taught within the instruction time
42	42	required under Section 25.081, not including the amount of time
43	43	required for testing;
44	44	(4) determine whether the college and career readiness
45	45	standards have been appropriately integrated in the essential
46	46	knowledge and skills for each subject and grade level; and
47	47	(5) consider whether an assessment instrument
48	48	administered under Section 39.023 adequately assesses a particular
49	49	student expectation.
50	50	(d) Not later than September 1, 2020, the State Board of
51	51	Education shall complete the review and revision of the essential
52	52	knowledge and skills for each subject and grade level of the
53	53	foundation curriculum that was last revised before September 1,
54	54	2014.
55	55	(e) This section expires September 1, 2021.
56	56	SECTION 2. Section 31.002, Education Code, is amended by
57	57	adding Subdivision (1-b) to read as follows:
58	58	(1-b) "Proclamation" means a request for production of
59	59	instructional materials issued by the State Board of Education.
60	60	SECTION 3. Section 31.022, Education Code, is amended by
61	61	adding Subsections (b-1), (b-2), and (b-3) and amending Subsection
62	62	(f) to read as follows:
63	63	(b-1) For any state fiscal biennium, the board may only
64	64	issue proclamations for instructional materials in which the total
65	65	projected cost of instructional materials under the proclamations
66	66	does not exceed 75 percent of the total amount used to fund the
67	67	instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211 for that
68	68	biennium.
69	69	(b-2) Following the adoption of revised essential knowledge
70	70	and skills for any subject, the board shall determine whether
71	71	issuance of a proclamation is necessary based on the significance
72	72	of the changes to the essential knowledge and skills. If the board
73	73	determines a proclamation is necessary, the board shall issue:
74	74	(1) a full call for instructional materials aligned to
75	75	all of the essential knowledge and skills for the subject and grade
76	76	level;
77	77	(2) a supplemental call for instructional materials
78	78	aligned to new or expanded essential knowledge and skills for the
79	79	subject and grade level;
80	80	(3) a call for new information demonstrating alignment
81	81	of current instructional materials to the revised essential
82	82	knowledge and skills; or
83	83	(4) any combination of the calls described by
84	84	Subdivisions (1), (2), and (3).
85	85	(b-3) In determining the disbursement of money to the
86	86	available school fund and the amount of that disbursement that will
87	87	be used, in accordance with Section 43.001(d), to fund the
88	88	instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211, the board
89	89	must consider the cost of all instructional materials and
90	90	technology requirements for that state fiscal biennium.
91	91	(f) The board shall amend any proclamation [request for
92	92	production] issued for the purchase of instructional materials to
93	93	conform to the instructional materials funding levels provided by
94	94	the General Appropriations Act for the year of implementation and
95	95	to comply with Subsection (b-1).
96	96	SECTION 4. Sections 31.101(d) and (e), Education Code, are
97	97	repealed.
98	98	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.