HOUSE BILL 5 UPDATE

Foundation and Endorsement FAQs

House Committee on Public Education Meeting: March 26• Implementation of HB 5 and 3-8 assessments• Additional rigorous mathematics and science courses needed to address the current and projected needs of the state's workforce

• Review the TEKS in the tested grades, • format, testing calendar, and the limitation on

instructional days

• Recommend options to streamline the assessment of TEKS to focus on core concepts

• Review current federal testing requirements in grades 3-8 to determine if testing relief is possible

Senate Education Committee Meeting: April 14

• Review the redesign of high school English EOC exams.

• Review accommodations available as a result of the elimination of the STAAR-M

• Review the redesign of the STAAR Alternate assessment.

• Monitor implementation of HB 5 relating to • accountability, assessment, and curriculum

requirements

FOUDATION FAQS

Foundation FAQs

• A course may satisfy both a foundation and an endorsement requirement, including an elective.• Credit can not be given twice

• If a student earns more than one credit for a course, any additional credit may be applied to an elective and/or endorsement requirement.

Speech Skills

• Each school district is responsible for ensuring that students demonstrate proficiency in the speech skills.• A district may require a speech course. This is a local decision. (Professional Communications, Comm. Apps.)

Speech Skills

• Documentation of a student’s demonstrated proficiency must be included on the Academic Achievement Record (AAR). Additional guidance will be provided in the revised Minimum Standards for the AAR.

Math Models

• Math Models may be offered first in the sequence of math courses. (2014-2015)

• Math Models may be offered concurrently with Algebra I or geometry (2014-2015)

• Algebra I will be a prerequisite for Math Models when the revised TEKS are implemented in the 2015-2016 school year.

Science

• The “second” science credit does not have to be taken before the “third” science credit.• No sequence implied in the rules or law

• A student can take IPC after chemistry and/or physics

LOTE

• Computer Science I, II, and III may satisfy this requirement until September 1, 2016.

• Can CTE computer programming courses satisfy the LOTE requirement? • No. At this time only Computer Science I, II, and III may satisfy this requirement.

Caution!!

• You can require more course work as a graduation requirement in your district, but you can not violate the SBOE rules or HB5 by changing the minimum requirements for the Foundation Plan or an endorsement.

• There are not specific course sequence requirements however, districts should pay close attention to prerequisite requirements.

Examples

• LOTE – You can not require a student to take two or more years of the same language other than English, if they qualify for an option• Not even as a local requirement for graduation

• Algebra II - You can not require a student to take Algebra II for the foundation plan or non-STEM endorsement• You can require Algebra II as a local graduation requirement outside of the above

ENDORSEMENT FAQS

Endorsements General

• Rule: “This section does not entitle a student to remain enrolled to earn more than 26 credits.”

• A student cannot continue to earn credits for endorsements indefinitely.

• They can earn more than 26 credits, District decides when they have enough to graduate.

Endorsements General

• The district determines coherent sequence and identifies courses within that sequence.

• The district determines the specific set of courses each student must complete to earn an endorsement• prerequisites must be followed • the set of courses meets the requirements of SBOE rule for that endorsement.

Endorsements General

• A school district may define advanced CTE courses• That course must be the third or higher course in a sequence.

• The state list of “CTE Advanced” courses is not definitive

Endorsements General

• Career Preparation may be used as one of the courses in the coherent sequence

• The final course in an endorsement sequence must come from one of the career clusters listed in the rule.

Endorsements General

Courses that could apply to two or more endorsements:• The district must determine which course is part of the coherent sequence of courses that a student takes.

• The career cluster of that course would determine which endorsement the student earns.

• This is a local decision.

Endorsements General

• A student may substitute an ELA, social studies, LOTE course, or fine arts course for 4th science credit required to earn an endorsement.

• Need the written permission of the student’s parent

STEM

Option 5: Earn a STEM endorsement with “a coherent sequence of three additional credits.” • Students must take Algebra II, Physics, and Chemistry and three additional credits. from no more than two of the following categories:

• The three additional credits must be a coherent sequence of courses from the required areas as determined by the local district.

Public Services

• A coherent sequence of courses may include courses from any CTE career cluster

• The final course in the sequence is from one of the CTE career clusters under the public services endorsement

• Districts determine if courses from different career clusters create a coherent sequence of courses

Multidisciplinary Studies

• Rule: A student may take “four advanced courses that prepare a student to enter the workforce successfully or postsecondary education without remediation”?

• Each local school district has the authority to identify advanced courses.

Things to think about?

• How will districts address transfers where different courses are selected as advanced?

• How will districts address transfers where different coherent sequences earn the same endorsement?

Coming Soon!

•Performance Acknowledgment FAQs

•HB 5 FAQs on other components of the bill