CONSENT AGENDA
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
May 21, 2010
(1) Proposed Amendments to 19 TAC Chapter 89, Adaptations for Special Populations, Subchapter D, Special Education Services and Settings
(First Reading and Filing Authorization)
(Committee on Instruction)
This item presents for first reading and filing authorization proposed amendments to 19 TAC Chapter 89, Adaptations for Special Populations, Subchapter D, Special Education Services and Settings. The proposed amendments would incorporate technical edits to 19 TAC §89.61, Contracting for Residential Educational Placements for Students with Disabilities, and 19 TAC §89.63, Instructional Arrangements and Settings, for clarification resulting from changes to state law and federal regulations. Statutory authority for this action is Texas Education Code (TEC), §42.151(e) and (g).
(2) Proposed Repeal of Career and Technical Education Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills in 19 TAC Chapters 119-125 and Proposed Revisions to 19 TAC Chapter 127, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Career Development
(First Reading and Filing Authorization)
(Committee on Instruction)
This item presents for first reading and filing authorization the proposed repeal of 19 TAC Chapter 119, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Agricultural Science and Technology Education; Chapter 120, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Business Education; Chapter 121, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Health Science Technology Education; Chapter 122, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Home Economics Education; Chapter 123, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Technology Education/Industrial Technology Education; Chapter 124, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Marketing Education; and Chapter 125, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Trade and Industrial Education. The proposed repeal would remove the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) adopted to be effective in 1998 for high school Career and Technical Education courses that will be superseded by 19 TAC Chapter 130, beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. This item also presents for first reading and filing authorization proposed revisions to 19 TAC Chapter 127, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Career Development. The proposed revisions to 19 TAC Chapter 127 would repeal the TEKS adopted to be effective in 1998 for Career Investigation in 19 TAC §127.2 and Career Connections in 19 TAC §127.12 that will be superseded by 19 TAC §127.3 and §127.4 and §§127.13-127.15 of this chapter beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. The proposed revisions would also remove references in 19 TAC §127.1 and §127.11 to rules that would be repealed. Statutory authority for this action is Texas Education Code (TEC), §§7.102(c)(4), 28.002, and 28.025.
(3) Proposed Repeal of 19 TAC Chapter 112, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science, Subchapter A, Elementary, §§112.1-112.7, Subchapter B, Middle School, §§112.21-112.24, and Subchapter C, High School, §§112.41-112.49, and Proposed Amendments to 19 TAC Chapter 112, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science, §§112.10, 112.17, and 112.31
(First Reading and Filing Authorization)
(Committee on Instruction)
This item presents for first reading and filing authorization the proposed repeal of 19 TAC Chapter 112, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science, Subchapter A, Elementary, §§112.1-112.7, Subchapter B, Middle School, §§112.21-112.24, and Subchapter C, High School, §§112.41-112.49. The proposed repeal would remove the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) adopted to be effective in 1998 for Kindergarten-Grade 8 and high school science courses, and related implementation language, that will be superseded by 19 TAC §§112.10-112.20 and §§112.31-112.39 of this chapter beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. This item also presents for first reading and filing authorization proposed amendments to 19 TAC Chapter 112, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science, §§112.10, 112.17, and 112.31, to remove references to rules that would be repealed. Statutory authority for this action is Texas Education Code (TEC), §§7.102(c)(4), 28.002, and 28.025.
(4) Ratification of the Purchases and Sales of the Investment Portfolio of the Permanent School Fund for the Month of February 2010
(Committee on School Finance/Permanent School Fund)
This item provides an opportunity for the committee and board to consider approval of the purchases and sales of securities executed in the portfolio of the Permanent School Fund for the month of February 2010. Statutory authority for this action is the Texas Constitution, Article VII, §5(f).