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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the sequencing of required English language arts |
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courses and mathematics courses in schools and conforming changes. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 28.025(b-2), Education Code, as amended |
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by Chapters 211 (H.B. 5) and 214 (H.B. 2201), Acts of the 83rd |
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Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is reenacted and amended to |
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read as follows: |
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(b-2) In adopting rules under Subsection (b-1), the State |
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Board of Education shall: |
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(1) provide for a student to comply with the |
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curriculum requirements for an advanced English course under |
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Subsection (b-1)(1) [taken after successful completion of English
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I, English II, and English III], for an advanced mathematics course |
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under Subsection (b-1)(2) [taken after the successful completion of
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Algebra I and geometry], and for any advanced science course under |
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Subsection (b-1)(3) by successfully completing a course in the |
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appropriate content area that has been approved as an advanced |
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course by board rule or that is offered as an advanced course for |
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credit without board approval as provided by Section 28.002(g-1); |
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and |
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(2) allow a student to comply with the curriculum |
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requirements for the third and fourth mathematics credits under |
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Subsection (b-1)(2) or the third and fourth science credits under |
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Subsection (b-1)(3) by successfully completing an advanced career |
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and technical course designated by the State Board of Education as |
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containing substantively similar and rigorous academic content. |
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SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 |
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school year. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |