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SECTION 1. Subchapter A,
Chapter 28, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 28.0025 to read as
follows:
Sec. 28.0025. HIGHER
EDUCATION CURRICULUM REVIEW TEAMS. (a) In this section, "institution
of higher education" and "private or independent institution of
higher education" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) For each subject
undergoing a review for the purpose of identifying and adopting the
essential knowledge and skills of a subject of the required curriculum under Section 28.002, the commissioner of higher education shall
appoint a higher education curriculum review team to review and make
recommendations to the State Board of Education concerning the essential
knowledge and skills to ensure that proposed essential knowledge and
skills:
(1) are factually accurate
and aligned with contemporary scholarship;
(2) serve to prepare
students for college; and
(3) serve appropriate
instructional purposes.
(c) Each higher education
curriculum review team shall consist of not fewer than five and not more
than 10 faculty members of institutions of higher education or private or
independent institutions of higher education.
(See Sec. 28.0025(f)
below.)
Each member appointed to a team must have:
(1) at least five years of
higher education teaching
experience in the subject under review and
a terminal degree in that subject; or
(2) at least five years of
higher education teaching experience in the
field of education and a doctoral degree in education.
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SECTION 1. Subchapter A,
Chapter 28, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 28.0025 to read as
follows:
Sec. 28.0025. HIGHER
EDUCATION CURRICULUM REVIEW TEAMS. (a) In this section:
(1) "Board" means the State Board of
Education.
(2) "Institution of
higher education" and "private or independent institution of
higher education" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) For each subject
undergoing a review for the purpose of identifying and adopting the
essential knowledge and skills of a subject of the foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1), the board shall appoint a higher education
curriculum review team to review and make recommendations to the board
concerning the essential knowledge and skills to ensure that proposed
essential knowledge and skills:
(1) are factually accurate
and aligned with contemporary scholarship;
(2) are aligned with college and career readiness
standards and serve to prepare students for college; and
(3) serve appropriate
instructional purposes.
(c) Each higher education
curriculum review team shall consist of not fewer than 5 and not more than
10 faculty members of institutions of higher education or private or
independent institutions of higher education.
The board shall make the appointments to each higher
education curriculum review team from among persons nominated by the commissioner or the commissioner of higher
education.
(d) Each member nominated by the commissioner must have
in the subject under review:
(1) at least five years of
teaching experience; and
(2) credentials that satisfy the faculty credential guidelines
established by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools.
(e) Each member nominated by the commissioner of higher
education must have in the subject under review:
(1) at least five years of
higher education teaching experience; and
(2) credentials that satisfy the faculty credential guidelines
established by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools.
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(e) The Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board, in collaboration with the commissioner of
higher education, shall develop and post on the board's Internet website a
blind scoring system, including the criteria on which the scoring is based,
for ranking nominations made under Subsection (d).
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No
equivalent provision.
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(f) The commissioner of higher education, based on the system
developed under Subsection (e), shall make the appointments to each
higher education curriculum review team from among persons nominated by institutions of higher education or private or
independent institutions of higher education under this section.
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(See Sec. 28.0025(c) above.)
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(h) In selecting
appointees for a higher education curriculum review team, the commissioner
of higher education shall attempt to achieve a balanced combination of
educational perspectives.
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(f) In selecting their respective nominees for a higher
education curriculum review team, the
commissioner and the commissioner of higher education shall each:
(1) attempt to achieve a
balanced combination of educational perspectives, including by geographic area, race, and sex; and
(2) give preference to nominees who have teaching experience in
this state at an institution of higher education or a private or
independent institution of higher education.
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(i) Each higher education curriculum review team shall, before
final identification and adoption of the essential knowledge and skills by
the State Board of Education, make recommendations to the State Board of
Education concerning the essential knowledge and skills.
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(g) At times and places determined by the chair of the board,
before and after the board considers on first reading proposed essential
knowledge and skills of a subject for which a higher education curriculum
review team has been appointed under this section, that higher education
curriculum review team shall meet to review the proposed essential
knowledge and skills. The team shall submit to the board the results of the
team's review and any recommendations for changes. The board may consider
the team's recommendations in adopting the proposed essential knowledge and
skills.
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SECTION 2. This Act takes
effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members
elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas
Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate
effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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SECTION 2. Same as introduced
version.
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