Bill Text: TX SB1288 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment instrument for public high school students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-13 - Referred to Education [SB1288 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1288-Introduced.html
By: Taylor of Galveston, Schwertner | S.B. No. 1288 | |
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relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment | ||
instrument for public high school students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.023(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The agency shall also adopt end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments for secondary-level courses in Algebra I, biology, | ||
English I, English II, |
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end-of-course assessment instrument must be administered with the | ||
aid of technology. The English I and English II end-of-course | ||
assessment instruments must each assess essential 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). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39, Education Code is amended by adding | ||
Sec. 39.02302 to read as follows: | ||
Section 39.02302 U.S. History Assessment (a) Beginning | ||
with students entering the 9th grade in the 2018-2019 school year, | ||
each student shall be required to take the civics test administered | ||
by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services as part | ||
of the naturalization process under the federal Immigration and | ||
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.). The test shall be | ||
administered in accordance with rules adopted by a district board | ||
of trustees, the commissioner, and as follows: | ||
(1) On a computer in a multiple choice format, and | ||
(2) In the presence of a teacher, aide, proctor, or | ||
campus testing coordinator, and | ||
(3) At any time during the school year when the | ||
instructor or counselor determines the student to be ready. | ||
(b) A student who has entered the 9th grade prior to the | ||
2018-2019 may elect to take the test in accordance with this section | ||
in lieu of the test required in Section 39.023(c). | ||
(c) As a condition of graduation, a student must answer at | ||
least 70% of the questions correctly. | ||
(d) 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 this assessment | ||
instrument to appropriately measure a student's achievement on this | ||
test. | ||
(e) An individual graduation committee may waive the | ||
requirement in this section for a student in a special education | ||
program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, for whom this assessment | ||
instrument, even with allowable accommodations, would not provide | ||
an appropriate measure of student achievement, as determined by the | ||
student's admission, review, and dismissal committee. | ||
(f) The commissioner shall adopt rules requiring a school | ||
district to provide a student in the foundation high school program | ||
under Section 28.025 with the opportunity to be administered the | ||
test in this section. A rule may not: | ||
(1) Restrict the grade level at which a student may | ||
take this test; or | ||
(2) Limit the number of attempts a student may take to | ||
perform satisfactorily on the test. | ||
(g) A school district shall annually certify to the | ||
commissioner the results of each student who takes this assessment. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with students who | ||
enter the ninth grade during the 2018-2019 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, 2017. |