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      Amend CSSB 4 by adding the following SECTION, appropriately
numbered, and renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill
accordingly:
      SECTION _____.  Section 28.025 (a), Education Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      (a) The State Board of Education by rule shall determine
curriculum requirements for the minimum, recommended, and advanced
high school programs that are consistent with the required
curriculum under Section 28.002 and shall identify enrichment
courses or series of courses within coherent sequences that satisfy
high school academic requirements and that concurrently lead to a
postsecondary curriculum.  A student may graduate and receive a
diploma only if the student successfully completes:
            (1) the curriculum requirements identified by the board
and the exit-level assessment instrument administered under Section
39.023 (c) or each end-of-course assessment instrument required to
be adopted under Section 39.023 (d); or
            (2) an individualized education program developed under
Section 29.005.