Bill Text: TX HB2923 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to state control of teacher appraisal criteria, curriculum standards, and assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 17-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-10 - Corrected committee report sent to Calendars [HB2923 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2923-Comm_Sub.html
82R25100 PAM-F | |||
By: Huberty, Creighton, Eissler, Pitts, | H.B. No. 2923 | ||
Geren, et al. | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2923: | |||
By: Pitts | C.S.H.B. No. 2923 |
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relating to state control of teacher appraisal criteria, curriculum | ||
standards, and assessment instruments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.351(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The commissioner shall adopt a recommended appraisal | ||
process and criteria on which to appraise the performance of | ||
teachers. The commissioner may not adopt or develop a recommended | ||
appraisal process and criteria based on any federally enacted or | ||
nationally applicable appraisal criteria incorporating the results | ||
of student performance on assessment instruments. The criteria | ||
must be based on observable, job-related behavior, including: | ||
(1) teachers' implementation of discipline management | ||
procedures; and | ||
(2) the performance of teachers' students. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (b-1), (b-2), (b-3), and (b-4) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b-1) In this section, "national curriculum standards" | ||
includes any curriculum standards endorsed, approved, sanctioned, | ||
or promoted by the United States Department of Education, the | ||
National Governors Association, or the Council of Chief State | ||
School Officers. | ||
(b-2) The State Board of Education may not adopt national | ||
curriculum standards to comply with a duty imposed under this | ||
chapter. | ||
(b-3) A school district may not use national curriculum | ||
standards to comply with the requirement to provide instruction in | ||
the essential knowledge and skills at appropriate grade levels | ||
under Subsection (c). | ||
(b-4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a | ||
school district or open-enrollment charter school may not be | ||
required to offer any aspect of a national curriculum. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
(a-2) The agency may not adopt or develop a | ||
criterion-referenced assessment instrument under this section | ||
based on national curriculum standards as defined by Section | ||
28.002(b-1). | ||
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, 2011. |