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House Bill 2349 |
House Author: Aycock |
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Effective: 6-18-15 |
Senate Sponsor: Kolkhorst |
House Bill 2349 amends the Education Code to revise and expand the criteria for which a student may earn a performance acknowledgment on the student's diploma and transcript. The bill authorizes the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to defer releasing standardized test questions and answer keys to the extent necessary to develop additional tests. The bill limits the requirement adopted by the commissioner of education that a student be administered each end-of-course test to an end-of-course test for a course in which the student is enrolled and for which an end-of-course test is administered. The bill requires TEA to adopt procedures to ensure that the results of the statewide standardized tests administered to students who transfer from a school district in another state to a school district in Texas are reported to each school district separately from the results of tests administered to other students.
House Bill 2349 repeals provisions relating to requiring a school district to require a student who on completion of grade 11 is unlikely to achieve the score requirement for one or more end-of-course tests to enroll in a corresponding content-area college preparatory course for which an end-of-course test has been adopted; to authorizing the student's score on that test to be used towards satisfying the end-of-course test score requirement for receiving a high school diploma; and to requiring the State Board of Education to establish a level of performance on the special-purpose questions included in an end-of-course test that indicates a student's college readiness.