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House Bill 3485 |
House Author: King, Susan et al. |
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Effective: 6-15-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Shapiro |
House Bill 3485 amends the Education Code to require the Texas Education Agency to form a panel, consisting of persons with expertise developing or administering career and technology education (CTE) programs and employers who hire students with certification or credentials from a CTE program, to review and recommend revisions to the CTE curriculum and for the program in which high schools and articulated postsecondary institutions allow high school students to take advanced technical credit courses. The panel must complete its review and submit recommendations to the State Board of Education not later than November 1, 2008, and the board must revise the CTE curriculum's essential knowledge and skills based on the recommendations for implementation beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. The bill encourages each district to establish for each entering high school student a personal graduation plan identifying a course of study that promotes college and workforce readiness and career placement and advancement and facilitates the student's transition from secondary to postsecondary education. The bill also allows high school students to (1) earn college credit under the College Credit Program through international baccalaureate, advanced placement, or dual credit courses; articulated postsecondary courses or advanced courses provided for local or state credit; or any combination of the above; and (2) comply with the recommended or advanced high school curriculum requirements for a mathematics course following Algebra II or a science course following physics by completing an advanced CTE course designated as substantively similar and rigorous in content.