Bill Text: TX HB3618 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eliminating certain state-required end-of-course assessment instruments not required by federal law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Public Education [HB3618 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3618-Introduced.html
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By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 3618 |
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relating to eliminating certain state-required end-of-course | ||
assessment instruments not required by federal law. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (c) and (c-3) and adding Subsection (q) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The agency shall also adopt end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments for secondary-level courses in Algebra I, biology, and | ||
English I[ |
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end-of-course assessment instrument must be administered with the | ||
aid of technology. The English I [ |
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assessment instrument [ |
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knowledge and skills in both reading and writing in the same | ||
assessment instrument and must provide a single score. A school | ||
district shall comply with State Board of Education rules regarding | ||
administration of the assessment instruments listed in this | ||
subsection. If a student is in a special education program under | ||
Subchapter A, Chapter 29, the student's admission, review, and | ||
dismissal committee shall determine whether any allowable | ||
modification is necessary in administering to the student an | ||
assessment instrument required under this subsection. The State | ||
Board of Education shall administer the assessment instruments. | ||
The State Board of Education shall adopt a schedule for the | ||
administration of end-of-course assessment instruments that | ||
complies with the requirements of Subsection (c-3). | ||
(c-3) In adopting a schedule for the administration of | ||
assessment instruments under this section, the State Board of | ||
Education shall require: | ||
(1) assessment instruments administered under | ||
Subsection (a) to be administered on a schedule so that the first | ||
assessment instrument is administered at least two weeks later than | ||
the date on which the first assessment instrument was administered | ||
under Subsection (a) during the 2006-2007 school year; and | ||
(2) the spring administration of end-of-course | ||
assessment instruments under Subsection (c) to occur in each school | ||
district not earlier than the first full week in May, except that | ||
the spring administration of the end-of-course assessment | ||
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permitted to occur at an earlier date. | ||
(q) This subsection applies to end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments adopted under Subsection (c) for secondary-level | ||
courses in English II and United States history, as that subsection | ||
existed before amendment by __.B. No.___, Acts of the 86th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2019. The agency may retain | ||
assessment instruments described by this subsection, but may not | ||
require a school district to administer those assessment | ||
instruments. A school district may choose to administer an | ||
assessment instrument described by this subsection. An assessment | ||
instrument described by this subsection administered by a school | ||
district may not be used for accountability purposes to measure the | ||
performance of the district or a district campus. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.025(a-1), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A student enrolled in a college preparatory | ||
mathematics or English language arts course under Section 28.014 | ||
who satisfies the Texas Success Initiative (TSI) college readiness | ||
benchmarks prescribed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board under Section 51.334 on an assessment instrument designated | ||
by the coordinating board under that section administered at the | ||
end of the college preparatory mathematics or English language arts | ||
course satisfies the requirements concerning and is exempt from the | ||
administration of the Algebra I or the English I [ |
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end-of-course assessment instrument [ |
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as prescribed by Section 39.023(c), even if the student did not | ||
perform satisfactorily on a previous administration of the | ||
applicable end-of-course assessment instrument. A student who | ||
fails to perform satisfactorily on the assessment instrument | ||
designated by the coordinating board under Section 51.334 | ||
administered as provided by this subsection may retake that | ||
assessment instrument for purposes of this subsection or may take | ||
the appropriate end-of-course assessment instrument. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
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, 2019. |