Bill: HB 2349, 84(R) - 2015

Committee

House Public Education

Vote Recommendation

Vote Recommendation Economic Freedom Property Rights Personal Responsibility Limited Government Individual Liberty
Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral

Author(s)

Jimmie Don Aycock

Bill Caption

Relating to public school assessment, performance standards, and course requirements.

Fiscal Notes

No significant fiscal implication to State or local government.

Bill Analysis

HB 2349 would amend Education Code to replace the criterion for performance acknowledgements on diplomas from specific tests to the criterion of outstanding performance on an established, valid, reliable, and nationally norm-referenced test used by colleges and universities as part of their undergraduate admissions process or on a preliminary college preparation test with the same characteristics used to measure a student's progress toward readiness for college and the workplace. The bill would add as a criterion the student earning a state recognized business or industry certification or license.

The bill would allow Texas Education Agency to defer releasing standardized tests and answers to the extent necessary to develop additional tests. The bill would also clarify that students are to be administered end-of-course tests for each course for which the student is enrolled and the course has an end-of-course test.

HB 2349 would change the code to provide that a student may not enroll in more than three courses at a junior college to a condition under which the service area of another junior college includes the student's high school. The bill would authorize a public school student to enroll in a greater number of courses if each junior college and the school district in which the student is enrolled authorize by agreement the student's enrollment.

The bill would repeal:

Vote Recommendation Notes

This bill would make mostly administrative, clerical, and non-substantive updates to current code with no discernible connection to our liberty principles, therefore we are neutral on HB 2349. 


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