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	Amend the Eissler amendment to HB 2217 on page 7, between 
lines 22 and 23, by inserting the following appropriately numbered 
SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill 
accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 28.014 to read as follows:
	Sec. 28.014.  COLLEGE PREPARATORY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE 
COURSES.  (a)  The commissioner of education and the commissioner of 
higher education shall develop and recommend to the State Board of 
Education for adoption under Section 28.002 the essential knowledge 
and skills of a course in college preparatory mathematics and a 
course in college preparatory science for use in public high 
schools.  The courses must be designed:
		(1)  for students at the 12th grade level who do not 
meet college readiness standards on a secondary exit-level 
assessment instrument required under Section 39.023(c); and
		(2)  to prepare students for success in entry-level 
college courses. 
	(b)  A student who successfully completes a course developed 
under this section may use the credit earned in the course toward 
satisfying the applicable mathematics or science curriculum 
requirement for the recommended or advanced high school program 
under Section 28.025.
	(c)  The agency, in consultation with the Texas Higher 
Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt an end-of-course 
assessment instrument for each course developed under this section 
to ensure the rigor of the course.  A school district shall, in 
accordance with State Board of Education rules, administer the 
end-of-course assessment instrument to a student enrolled in a 
course developed under this section.  Each school district shall 
adopt a policy that requires a student's performance on the 
end-of-course assessment instrument to account for 15 percent of 
the student's final grade for the course.  A student's performance 
on an end-of-course assessment instrument administered under this 
subsection is not subject to the graduation requirements 
established under Section 39.025.
	(d)  The agency, in coordination with the Texas Higher 
Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt a series of optional 
questions to be included in an end-of-course assessment instrument 
administered under Subsection (c) to be used for purposes of 
Section 51.3062.  The optional questions must be developed in a 
manner consistent with any college readiness standards adopted 
under Sections 39.113 and 51.3062.  A student's performance on an 
optional question adopted under this subsection may not be used to 
determine the student's performance on an end-of-course assessment 
instrument.
	(e)  The State Board of Education shall adopt instructional 
materials for a course developed under this section in accordance 
with Chapter 31.  The instructional materials must include 
technology resources that enhance the effectiveness of the course 
and draw on established best practices.
	(f)  To the extent applicable, the commissioner shall draw 
from curricula and instructional materials developed under 
Sections 28.008 and 61.0763 in developing a course and related 
instructional materials under this section.  Not later than October 
1, 2008, the State Board of Education shall adopt essential 
knowledge and skills for each course developed under this section.  
The State Board of Education shall make each course developed under 
this section and the related instructional materials available to 
school districts beginning with the 2010-2011 school year.  As 
required by Subsection (c), a school district shall adopt a policy 
requiring a student's performance on an end-of-course assessment 
instrument administered under that subsection to account for 15 
percent of the student's grade for a course developed under this 
section beginning with the 2011-2012 school year.  This subsection 
expires September 1, 2012.