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House Bill 2694 |
House Author: Villarreal et al. |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
Senate Sponsor: Duncan |
House Bill 2694 amends the Education Code to transfer from the State Board of Education (SBOE) to each individual school district's board of trustees the responsibility for reviewing and approving examinations developed or selected by the district for accelerated advancement from one primary school grade level to the next or for earning high school subject credit by examination. The bill requires the board of trustees to approve for each subject, if available, at least four examinations that satisfy SBOE guidelines, which must include advanced placement examinations administered by the College Board and Educational Testing Service and examinations administered through the College-Level Examination Program.
House Bill 2694 lowers from the 90th percentile to the 80th percentile the minimum percentile ranking for a student's score on an approved acceleration examination or on an approved examination for credit at which a district is required to give the student credit for a grade level and advance the student one grade level or to give the student credit for a subject, as applicable. The bill requires a district to give a student credit for a subject if the student scores a three or higher on an approved advanced placement examination administered by the college board or a scaled score of 60 or higher on an approved examination administered through the College-Level Examination Program. A student who earns credit by examination in a subject is not required to take an end-of-course test for that subject and is exempt from the minimum attendance requirement for a class in order to receive credit for that class.
House Bill 2694 increases the frequency at which each district must administer each approved examination for credit from at least once a year to not fewer than four times each year, at times to be determined by the SBOE, unless the examination is administered on a date established by an entity other than the district. The bill limits a student to two attempts to receive credit by examination for a particular subject and requires a student who fails to achieve the designated score for such credit for a subject before the start of the school year in which the student would ordinarily be enrolled in a course in that subject in accordance with the district's prescribed course sequence to satisfactorily complete the course to receive credit for the course.