Bill Text: TX HB2729 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to teacher requirements for high quality prekindergarten programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2729 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2729-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to teacher requirements for high quality prekindergarten programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2729 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2729-Introduced.html
88R2880 BDP-F | ||
By: Harris of Anderson | H.B. No. 2729 |
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relating to staff member requirements for high quality | ||
prekindergarten programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 29.167, Education Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.167. HIGH QUALITY CURRICULUM AND STAFF [ |
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REQUIREMENTS. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 29.167(b) and (d), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Each prekindergarten program staff member [ |
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requirements, as applicable: | ||
(1) for a prekindergarten program supervisor, be | ||
certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21; and | ||
(2) for a prekindergarten teacher, have one of the | ||
following [ |
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(A) a Child Development Associate (CDA) | ||
credential or another early childhood education credential | ||
approved by the agency; | ||
(B) certification offered through a training | ||
center accredited by Association Montessori Internationale or | ||
through the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher | ||
Education; | ||
(C) at least eight years' experience of teaching | ||
in a nationally accredited child care program; | ||
(D) be employed as a prekindergarten teacher in a | ||
school district that has received approval from the commissioner | ||
for the district's prekindergarten-specific instructional training | ||
plan that the teacher uses in the teacher's prekindergarten | ||
classroom; or | ||
(E) an equivalent qualification. | ||
(d) A school district or an entity with which the district | ||
contracts to provide a prekindergarten program must attempt to | ||
maintain an average ratio in any prekindergarten program class of | ||
not less than one certified teacher or teacher's aide for each 11 | ||
students. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
school year. | ||
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, 2023. |