73R1879 CAS-D
By McCoulskey H.B. No. 2315
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requirements for alternative certification of teachers.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 13.035(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (b) The rules must provide for the persons being certified
1-7 to satisfactorily complete:
1-8 (1) any examinations required generally for
1-9 certification<, except that a person certified under this section
1-10 shall be exempted from taking any examination or portion of an
1-11 examination that is designed to test knowledge of pedogogical
1-12 methods, history of education, or child psychology>;
1-13 (2) a one-year internship under the supervision of an
1-14 experienced, certified teacher;
1-15 (3) teaching method and classroom management training
1-16 prescribed by the board; and
1-17 (4) an appropriate number of semester hours credit, as
1-18 determined by the State Board of Education, from an accredited
1-19 institution of higher education and in the area in which the person
1-20 is to be teaching.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.