84R24111 CAE-F
 
  By: Crownover H.B. No. 2205
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2205:
 
  By:  Aycock C.S.H.B. No. 2205
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to educator preparation programs and appointment to the
  State Board for Educator Certification, including the appointment
  of a nonvoting member with experience and knowledge of alternative
  educator preparation programs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.033(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The State Board for Educator Certification is composed
  of 15 [14] members. The commissioner of education shall appoint an
  employee of the agency to represent the commissioner as a nonvoting
  member. The commissioner of higher education shall appoint an
  employee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to
  represent the commissioner as a nonvoting member. The governor
  shall appoint two nonvoting members. The governor shall appoint a
  dean of a college of education in this state as one of the [a]
  nonvoting members [member]. The governor shall appoint a person who
  has experience working for and knowledge of an alternative educator
  preparation program and who is not affiliated with an institution
  of higher education as one of the nonvoting members. The remaining
  11 members are appointed by the governor with the advice and consent
  of the senate, as follows:
               (1)  four members must be teachers employed in public
  schools;
               (2)  two members must be public school administrators;
               (3)  one member must be a public school counselor; and
               (4)  four members must be citizens, three of whom are
  not and have not, in the five years preceding appointment, been
  employed by a public school district or by an educator preparation
  program in an institution of higher education and one of whom is not
  and has not been employed by a public school district or by an
  educator preparation program in an institution of higher education.
         SECTION 2.  Section 21.0451(a), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The board shall propose rules for the sanction of
  educator preparation programs that do not meet accountability
  standards and shall annually review the accreditation status of
  each educator preparation program.  The rules:
               (1)  shall provide for the assignment of the following
  accreditation statuses:
                     (A)  not rated;
                     (B)  accredited;
                     (C)  accredited-warned;
                     (D)  accredited-probation; and
                     (E)  not accredited-revoked;
               (2)  may provide for the agency to take any necessary
  action, including one or more of the following actions:
                     (A)  requiring the program to obtain technical
  assistance approved by the agency or board;
                     (B)  requiring the program to obtain professional
  services under contract with another person;
                     (C)  appointing a monitor to participate in and
  report to the board on the activities of the program; and
                     (D)  if a program has been rated as
  accredited-probation under the Accountability System for Educator
  Preparation for a period of at least one year, revoking the approval
  of the program and ordering the program to be closed, provided that
  the board or agency must provide the opportunity for a hearing
  before the effective date of the closure; [and]
               (3)  shall provide for the agency to revoke the
  approval of the program and order the program to be closed if the
  program has been rated as accredited-probation under the
  Accountability System for Educator Preparation for three
  consecutive years, provided that the board or agency must provide
  the opportunity for a hearing before the effective date of the
  closure; and
               (4)  shall provide the board procedure for changing the
  accreditation status of a program that:
                     (A)  does not meet the accreditation standards
  established under Section 21.045(a); or
                     (B)  violates a board or agency regulation.
         SECTION 3.  Sections 21.0452(b), (c), and (d), Education
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The board shall make available at least the following
  information regarding each educator preparation program:
               (1)  the information specified in Sections 21.045(a)
  and (b);
               (2)  in addition to any other appropriate information
  indicating the quality of persons admitted to the program, the
  average academic qualifications possessed by persons admitted to
  the program, including:
                     (A)  average overall grade point average and
  average grade point average in specific subject areas; and
                     (B)  average scores on the Scholastic Assessment
  Test (SAT), the American College Test (ACT), or the Graduate Record
  Examination (GRE), as applicable;
               (3)  the degree to which persons who complete the
  program are successful in obtaining teaching positions;
               (4)  the extent to which the program prepares teachers,
  including general education teachers and special education
  teachers, to effectively teach:
                     (A)  students with disabilities; and
                     (B)  students of limited English proficiency, as
  defined by Section 29.052;
               (5)  the activities offered by the program that are
  designed to prepare teachers to:
                     (A)  integrate technology effectively into
  curricula and instruction, including activities consistent with
  the principles of universal design for learning; and
                     (B)  use technology effectively to collect,
  manage, and analyze data to improve teaching and learning for the
  purpose of increasing student academic achievement;
               (6)  for each semester, the average ratio of field
  supervisors to candidates completing student teaching, clinical
  teaching, or an internship in an educator preparation program;
               (7)  the percentage of teachers employed under a
  standard teaching certificate within one year of completing the
  program;
               (8)  the perseverance of beginning teachers in the
  profession, as determined on the basis of the number of beginning
  teachers who maintain status as active contributing members in the
  Teacher Retirement System of Texas for at least three years after
  certification in comparison to similar programs;
               (9) [(7)]  the results of exit surveys given to program
  participants on completion of the program that involve evaluation
  of the program's effectiveness in preparing participants to succeed
  in the classroom; and
               (10) [(8)]  the results of surveys given to school
  principals that involve evaluation of the program's effectiveness
  in preparing participants to succeed in the classroom, based on
  experience with employed program participants.
         (c)  For purposes of Subsection (b)(9) [(b)(7)], the board
  shall require an educator preparation program to distribute an exit
  survey that a program participant must complete before the
  participant is eligible to receive a certificate under this
  subchapter.
         (d)  For purposes of Subsections (b)(9) [(b)(7)] and (10)
  [(8)], the board shall develop surveys for distribution to program
  participants and school principals.
         SECTION 4.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, the governor shall appoint as a nonvoting member of the
  State Board for Educator Certification a person who has experience
  working for and knowledge of an alternative educator preparation
  program and who is not affiliated with an institution of higher
  education, as required by Section 21.033(a), Education Code, as
  amended by this Act.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.