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Legislative Updates related to CTE
HB 2: School Finance
Article 6 College, Career, and Military Readiness
HB120: CTE Supports
- JROTC now generates CTE funding; requires notice to students of JROTC scholarship options
- Increases the number of IBC assessment subsidies that students may receive from one to two
- Entitles an educator who gets certified in a CTE field to be reimbursed for certification fee costs
- Expands district funding for college application assessments to include TSIA, plus an exam like SAT/ACT, plus a career readiness exam
- Increases the per student entitlement for P-TECH students from $50 to $150 and removes this entitlement for students enrolled in a new tech network campus
- Prohibits students in PTECH from paying for dual credit
- Explicitly allows LEAs to spend funds providing collegiate advising for the two years after graduation
- Requires TEA to publish on its website postsecondary outcomes for 10 cohorts of students
- Expands district requirements related to adopting CCMR goals
- Rural Pathways in Excellence Partnerships (RPEP) Updates
- Increases the RPEP funding cap to $20M from $5M
- Grandfathered districts that have previously met the RPEP requirement of less than 1,600 students but no longer meet that requirement as eligible for funding; Cap growth for funding purposes at 110%
- Allows TEA to stand up an RPEP grant program if funds are appropriated
- Expands NIFA funding by $50M per year and allows NIFA to be used for a renovated portion of an instructional facility to be used for the first time to provide high-cost and undersubscribed CTE programs
HB 20: Applied Sciences Pathway
Creates new, Applied Science Pathways Program to allow school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to enter articulation agreements with institutions of higher education (IHEs) that enable students to earn a high school diploma and Level 1 or Level 2 certificates that lead to successful job placement in high-wage, high-growth jobs in the following targeted industries.
Courses required to earn a Level I or Level II certificate may be substituted for certain TEKS-based courses required for high school graduation if the content is substantially similar.
Of note: Under existing law, transporting students for the purposes of CTE was fully reimbursed; and obtaining a Level I or Level II certificate is recognized as a CCMR indicator in A-F.
SB 1191: GPA Calculations
Requires the commissioner of education to develop a standard method of computing a student's high school grade point average (GPA) that:
- Grants equal additional weight for non-CTE advanced placement (AP), international baccalaureate (IB), OnRamps dual enrollment, and dual credit courses
- Grants a different amount of additional weight to dual credit CTE courses
- Requires school districts to use this standard method to compute students' high school GPAs
- The commissioner must develop the standard method as soon as practicable after the bill's effective date.
SB 12: Parental Rights
Requires written parental consent for students to join any club
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