85S10692 MM-F
By: Anchia H.B. No. 173
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 28.0025 to read as follows:
Sec. 28.0025. HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM REVIEW TEAMS.
(a) In this section:
(1) "Board" means the State Board of Education.
(2) "Institution of higher education" and "private or
independent institution of higher education" have the meanings
assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) For each subject undergoing a review for the purpose of
identifying and adopting the essential knowledge and skills of a
subject of the foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1),
the board shall appoint a higher education curriculum review team
to review and make recommendations to the board concerning the
essential knowledge and skills to ensure that proposed essential
knowledge and skills:
(1) are factually accurate and aligned with
contemporary scholarship;
(2) are aligned with college and career readiness
standards and serve to prepare students for college; and
(3) serve appropriate instructional purposes.
(c) Each higher education curriculum review team shall
consist of not fewer than 5 and not more than 10 faculty members of
institutions of higher education or private or independent
institutions of higher education. The board shall make the
appointments to each higher education curriculum review team from
among persons nominated by the commissioner or the commissioner of
higher education.
(d) Each member nominated by the commissioner must have in
the subject under review:
(1) at least five years of teaching experience; and
(2) credentials that satisfy the faculty credential
guidelines established by the Commission on Colleges of the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
(e) Each member nominated by the commissioner of higher
education must have in the subject under review:
(1) at least five years of higher education teaching
experience; and
(2) credentials that satisfy the faculty credential
guidelines established by the Commission on Colleges of the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
(f) In selecting their respective nominees for a higher
education curriculum review team, the commissioner and the
commissioner of higher education shall each:
(1) attempt to achieve a balanced combination of
educational perspectives, including by geographic area, race, and
sex; and
(2) give preference to nominees who have teaching
experience in this state at an institution of higher education or a
private or independent institution of higher education.
(g) At times and places determined by the chair of the
board, before and after the board considers on first reading
proposed essential knowledge and skills of a subject for which a
higher education curriculum review team has been appointed under
this section, that higher education curriculum review team shall
meet to review the proposed essential knowledge and skills. The
team shall submit to the board the results of the team's review and
any recommendations for changes. The board may consider the team's
recommendations in adopting the proposed essential knowledge and
skills.
(h) The agency shall post on the agency's Internet website
the recommendations of each higher education curriculum review
team.
(i) The commissioner and the commissioner of higher
education shall coordinate with the board 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.