SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 21.001 - Definition
In this chapter, "commissioner" includes a person designated by the commissioner. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
- Texas Section 21.002 - Teacher Employment Contracts
(a) A school district shall employ each classroom teacher, principal, librarian, nurse, or school counselor under: (1) a probationary contract, as provided by Subchapter C;...
- Texas Section 21.003 - Certification Required
(a) A person may not be employed as a teacher, teacher intern or teacher trainee, librarian, educational aide, administrator, educational diagnostician, or school counselor by...
- Texas Section 21.0031 - Failure To Obtain Certification; Contract Void
(a) An employee's probationary, continuing, or term contract under this chapter is void if the employee: (1) does not hold a valid certificate or permit...
- Texas Section 21.004 - Teacher Recruitment Program
(a) To the extent that funds are available, the agency, the State Board for Educator Certification, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall develop...
- Texas Section 21.005 - High-quality Teachers
The commissioner may by rule establish a statewide standard to be used to certify each school district that is preparing, training, and recruiting high-quality teachers...
- Texas Section 21.006 - Requirement To Report Misconduct
(a) In this section, "abuse" has the meaning assigned by Section 261.001, Family Code, and includes any sexual conduct involving an educator and a student...
SUBCHAPTER B CERTIFICATION OF EDUCATORS
- Texas Section 21.007 - Notice On Certification Record Of Alleged Misconduct
(a) In this section, "board" means the State Board for Educator Certification. (b) The board shall adopt a procedure for placing a notice of alleged...
- Texas Section 21.031 - Purpose
(a) The State Board for Educator Certification is established to recognize public school educators as professionals and to grant educators the authority to govern the...
- Texas Section 21.032 - Definition
In this subchapter, "board" means the State Board for Educator Certification. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
- Texas Section 21.033 - State Board For Educator Certification
(a) The State Board for Educator Certification is composed of 15 members. The commissioner of education shall appoint an employee of the agency to represent...
- Texas Section 21.034 - Terms; Vacancy
(a) The board members appointed by the governor hold office for staggered terms of six years with the terms of one-third of the members expiring...
- Texas Section 21.035 - Delegation Authority; Administration By Agency
(a) The board is permitted to make a written delegation of authority to the commissioner or the agency to informally dispose of a contested case...
- Texas Section 21.036 - Officers
The board shall elect one of its members to serve as presiding officer for a term of two years. The presiding officer is entitled to...
- Texas Section 21.037 - Compensation
A board member may not receive compensation for serving on the board. A member is entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in...
- Texas Section 21.038 - Meetings
(a) The board shall meet at least once in each quarter of the calendar year. (b) The board may meet at other times at the...
- Texas Section 21.040 - General Powers And Duties Of Board
The board shall: (1) supervise the executive director's performance; (2) approve an operating budget for the board and make a request for appropriations; (3) appoint...
- Texas Section 21.041 - Rules; Fees
(a) The board may adopt rules as necessary for its own procedures. (b) The board shall propose rules that: (1) provide for the regulation of...
- Texas Section 21.042 - Approval Of Rules
The State Board for Educator Certification must submit a written copy of each rule it proposes to adopt to the State Board of Education for...
- Texas Section 21.043 - Access To Peims Data
The agency shall provide the board with access to data obtained under the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS). Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg.,...
- Texas Section 21.044 - Educator Preparation
(a) The board shall propose rules establishing the training requirements a person must accomplish to obtain a certificate, enter an internship, or enter an induction-year...
- Texas Section 21.0441 - Admission Requirements For Educator Preparation Programs
(a) Rules of the board proposed under this subchapter must provide that a person, other than a person seeking career and technology education certification, is...
- Texas Section 21.0443 - Educator Preparation Program Approval And Renewal
(a) The board shall propose rules to establish standards to govern the approval or renewal of approval of: (1) educator preparation programs; and (2) certification...
- Texas Section 21.045 - Accountability System For Educator Preparation Programs
(a) The board shall propose rules necessary to establish standards to govern the continuing accountability of all educator preparation programs based on the following information...
- Texas Section 21.0451 - Sanctions Under Accountability System For Educator Preparation Programs
(a) The board shall propose rules necessary for the sanction of educator preparation programs that do not meet accountability standards or comply with state law...
- Texas Section 21.0452 - Consumer Information Regarding Educator Preparation Programs
(a) To assist persons interested in obtaining teaching certification in selecting an educator preparation program and assist school districts in making staffing decisions, the board...
- Texas Section 21.0453 - Information For Candidates For Teacher Certification
(a) The board shall require an educator preparation program to provide candidates for teacher certification with information concerning the following: (1) skills and responsibilities required...
- Texas Section 21.0454 - Risk Factors For Educator Preparation Programs; Risk-assessment Model
(a) The board shall propose rules necessary to develop a set of risk factors to use in assessing the overall risk level of each educator...
- Texas Section 21.0455 - Complaints Regarding Educator Preparation Programs
(a) The board shall propose rules necessary to establish a process for a candidate for teacher certification to direct a complaint against an educator preparation...
- Texas Section 21.046 - Qualifications For Certification As Superintendent Or Principal
(a) The qualifications for superintendent must permit a candidate for certification to substitute management training or experience for part of the educational experience. (b) The...
- Texas Section 21.047 - Centers For Professional Development Of Teachers
(a) The board may develop the process for the establishment of centers for professional development through institutions of higher education for the purpose of integrating...
- Texas Section 21.048 - Certification Examinations
Sec. 21.048. CERTIFICATION EXAMINATIONS. (a) The board shall propose rules prescribing comprehensive examinations for each class of certificate issued by the board. The commissioner shall...
- Texas Section 21.0481 - Master Reading Teacher Certification
(a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to improve student reading performance,...
- Texas Section 21.0482 - Master Mathematics Teacher Certification
(a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to improve student mathematics performance,...
- Texas Section 21.0483 - Master Technology Teacher Certification
(a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to increase the use of...
- Texas Section 21.0484 - Master Science Teacher Certification
(a) To ensure that there are teachers with special training to work with other teachers and with students in order to improve student science performance,...
- Texas Section 21.0485 - Certification To Teach Students With Visual Impairments
(a) To be eligible to be issued a certificate to teach students with visual impairments, a person must: (1) complete either: (A) all course work...
- Texas Section 21.0486 - Technology Applications Certification
A person who holds a technology applications certificate issued under this subchapter may, in addition to teaching technology applications courses as authorized under the certificate,...
- Texas Section 21.0487 - Trades And Industries Education Certification For Military Personnel
(a) To the extent that rules adopted under this subchapter require a person seeking trades and industries education certification to hold a license or other...
- Texas Section 21.0487 - Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Teacher Certification
(a) The board shall establish a standard Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps teaching certificate to provide Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps instruction. (b) To be...
- Texas Section 21.049 - Alternative Certification
(a) To provide a continuing additional source of qualified educators, the board shall propose rules providing for educator certification programs as an alternative to traditional...
- Texas Section 21.050 - Academic Degree Required For Teaching Certificate; Internship
(a) A person who applies for a teaching certificate for which board rules require a bachelor's degree must possess a bachelor's degree received with an...
- Texas Section 21.051 - Rules Regarding Field-based Experience And Options For Field Experience And Internships
(a) In this section, "teacher of record" means a person employed by a school district who teaches the majority of the instructional day in an...
- Texas Section 21.052 - Certification Of Educators From Outside The State
(a) The board may issue a certificate to an educator who applies for a certificate and: (1) holds: (A) a degree issued by an institution...
- Texas Section 21.053 - Presentation And Recording Of Certificates
(a) A person who desires to teach in a public school shall present the person's certificate for filing with the employing district before the person's...
- Texas Section 21.054 - Continuing Education
(a) The board shall propose rules establishing a process for identifying continuing education courses and programs that fulfill educators' continuing education requirements. (b) Continuing education...
- Texas Section 21.0541 - Continuing Education Credit For Instruction Related To Use Of Automated External Defibrillator
The board shall adopt rules allowing an educator to receive credit towards the educator's continuing education requirements for completion of an instructional course on the...
- Texas Section 21.055 - School District Teaching Permit
(a) As provided by this section, a school district may issue a school district teaching permit and employ as a teacher a person who does...
- Texas Section 21.056 - Additional Certification
The board by rule shall provide for a certified educator to qualify for additional certification to teach at a grade level or in a subject...
- Texas Section 21.057 - Parental Notification
(a) A school district that assigns an inappropriately certified or uncertified teacher to the same classroom for more than 30 consecutive instructional days during the...
- Texas Section 21.058 - Revocation Of Certificate And Termination Of Employment Based On Conviction Of Certain Offenses
(a) The procedures described by Subsections (b) and (c) apply only: (1) to conviction of a felony offense under Title 5, Penal Code, or an...
- Texas Section 21.059 - Extension Of Certain Deadlines For Active Duty Military Personnel
A person who holds a certificate or permit under this subchapter who is a member of the state military forces or a reserve component of...
- Texas Section 21.060 - Eligibility Of Persons Convicted Of Certain Offenses
The board may suspend or revoke the certificate or permit held by a person under this subchapter, impose other sanctions against the person, or refuse...
- Texas Section 21.061 - Review And Updating Of Educator Preparation Programs
The board shall, after consulting with appropriate higher education faculty and public school teachers and administrators and soliciting advice from other interested persons with relevant...
SUBCHAPTER C PROBATIONARY CONTRACTS
- Texas Section 21.062 - Issuance Of Subpoenas
(a) During an investigation by the commissioner of an educator for an alleged incident of misconduct, the commissioner may issue a subpoena to compel the...
- Texas Section 21.101 - Definition
In this subchapter, "teacher" means a principal, supervisor, classroom teacher, school counselor, or other full-time professional employee who is required to hold a certificate issued...
- Texas Section 21.102 - Probationary Contract
(a) Except as provided by Section 21.202(b), a person who is employed as a teacher by a school district for the first time, or who...
- Texas Section 21.103 - Probationary Contract: Termination
(a) The board of trustees of a school district may terminate the employment of a teacher employed under a probationary contract at the end of...
- Texas Section 21.104 - Discharge During Year Or Suspension Without Pay Under Probationary Contract
(a) A teacher employed under a probationary contract may be discharged at any time for good cause as determined by the board of trustees, good...
- Texas Section 21.1041 - Hearing Under Probationary Contract
A teacher is entitled to: (1) a hearing as provided by Subchapter F, if the teacher is protesting proposed action under Section 21.104; or (2)...
- Texas Section 21.105 - Resignations Under Probationary Contract
(a) A teacher employed under a probationary contract for the following school year may relinquish the position and leave the employment of the district at...
SUBCHAPTER D CONTINUING CONTRACTS
- Texas Section 21.106 - Return To Probationary Status
(a) In lieu of discharging a teacher employed under a continuing contract, terminating a teacher employed under a term contract, or not renewing a teacher's...
- Texas Section 21.151 - Definition
In this subchapter, "teacher" has the meaning assigned by Section 21.101. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
- Texas Section 21.152 - Continuing Contract
A continuing contract must be in writing and must include the terms of employment prescribed by this subchapter and any other appropriate provisions consistent with...
- Texas Section 21.153 - Conversion Of Probationary Contract To Continuing Contract
(a) A school district that employs a teacher under a probationary contract for the third or, if permitted, fourth consecutive year of service and that...
- Texas Section 21.154 - Status Under Continuing Contract
Each teacher employed under a continuing contract is entitled to continue in the teacher's position or a position with the school district for future school...
- Texas Section 21.155 - Administrative Personnel Under Continuing Contract
The district may grant to a person who has served as principal or in another administrative position for which certification is required, at the completion...
- Texas Section 21.156 - Discharge Or Suspension Without Pay Under Continuing Contract
(a) A teacher employed under a continuing contract may be discharged at any time for good cause as determined by the board of trustees, good...
- Texas Section 21.157 - Necessary Reduction Of Personnel
A teacher employed under a continuing contract may be released at the end of a school year and the teacher's employment with the school district...
- Texas Section 21.158 - Notice Under Continuing Contract
(a) Before a teacher employed under a continuing contract may be discharged, suspended without pay, or released because of a necessary reduction of personnel, the...
- Texas Section 21.159 - Hearing Under Continuing Contract
(a) If the teacher desires to protest the proposed action under Section 21.156 or 21.157, the teacher must notify the board of trustees in writing...
SUBCHAPTER E TERM CONTRACTS
- Texas Section 21.160 - Resignation Under Continuing Contract
(a) A teacher employed under a continuing contract may relinquish the position and leave the employment of the district at the end of a school...
- Texas Section 21.201 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Teacher" means a superintendent, principal, supervisor, classroom teacher, school counselor, or other full-time professional employee who is required to hold a...
- Texas Section 21.202 - Probationary Contract Required
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), before a teacher may be employed under a term contract, the teacher must be employed under a probationary...
- Texas Section 21.203 - Employment Policies
(a) Except as provided by Section 21.352(c), the employment policies adopted by a board of trustees must require a written evaluation of each teacher at...
- Texas Section 21.204 - Term Contract
(a) A term contract must be in writing and must include the terms of employment prescribed by this subchapter. (b) The board of trustees may...
- Texas Section 21.205 - Term Of Contract
Once a teacher has completed the probationary contract period, the term of a contract under this subchapter may not exceed five school years. Added by...
- Texas Section 21.206 - Notice Of Contract Renewal Or Nonrenewal
(a) Not later than the 10th day before the last day of instruction in a school year, the board of trustees shall notify in writing...
- Texas Section 21.207 - Hearing Under Term Contract
(a) If the teacher desires a hearing after receiving notice of the proposed nonrenewal, the teacher shall notify the board of trustees in writing not...
- Texas Section 21.208 - Decision Of Board
(a) If the teacher does not request a hearing, the board of trustees shall: (1) take the appropriate action to renew or not renew the...
- Texas Section 21.209 - Appeal
A teacher who is aggrieved by a decision of a board of trustees on the nonrenewal of the teacher's term contract may appeal to the...
- Texas Section 21.210 - Resignation Under Term Contract
(a) A teacher employed under a term contract with a school district may relinquish the teaching position and leave the employment of the district at...
- Texas Section 21.211 - Termination Or Suspension
(a) The board of trustees may terminate a term contract and discharge a teacher at any time for: (1) good cause as determined by the...
- Texas Section 21.212 - Applicability Of Subchapter To Superintendents
(a) The board of trustees of a school district may choose to not renew the employment of a superintendent employed under a term contract, effective...
SUBCHAPTER F HEARINGS BEFORE HEARING EXAMINERS
- Texas Section 21.213 - Nonapplicability Of Subchapter
Except as provided by Section 21.202, this subchapter does not apply to a teacher employed under a probationary contract in accordance with Subchapter C or...
- Texas Section 21.251 - Applicability
(a) This subchapter applies if a teacher requests a hearing after receiving notice of the proposed decision to: (1) terminate the teacher's continuing contract at...
- Texas Section 21.252 - Certification Of Hearing Examiners
(a) The State Board of Education, in consultation with the State Office of Administrative Hearings, by rule shall establish criteria for the certification of hearing...
- Texas Section 21.253 - Request For Hearing
(a) A teacher must file a written request for a hearing under this subchapter with the commissioner not later than the 15th day after the...
- Texas Section 21.254 - Assignment Of Hearing Examiner
(a) The commissioner shall maintain a list of the names of all persons who have been certified as hearing examiners. The list shall be initially...
- Texas Section 21.255 - Hearings Before Hearing Examiner
(a) The hearing examiner may issue subpoenas at the request of either party for the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents at the...
- Texas Section 21.256 - Conduct Of Hearing
(a) A hearing under this subchapter must be private unless the teacher requests in writing that the hearing be public, except that a hearing examiner...
- Texas Section 21.257 - Recommendation Of Hearing Examiner
(a) Not later than the 60th day after the date on which the commissioner receives a teacher's written request for a hearing, the hearing examiner...
- Texas Section 21.258 - Consideration Of Recommendation By Board Of Trustees Or Board Subcommittee
(a) The board of trustees or a subcommittee designated by the board shall consider the recommendation and record of the hearing examiner at the first...
- Texas Section 21.259 - Decision Of Board Of Trustees Or Board Subcommittee
(a) Not later than the 10th day after the date of the board meeting under Section 21.258, the board of trustees or board subcommittee shall...
SUBCHAPTER G APPEALS TO COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
- Texas Section 21.260 - Recording Of Board Meeting And Announcement
A certified shorthand reporter shall record the oral argument under Section 21.258 and the announcement of the decision under Section 21.259. The school district shall...
- Texas Section 21.301 - Appeal To Commissioner
(a) Not later than the 20th day after the date the board of trustees or board subcommittee announces its decision under Section 21.259 or the...
- Texas Section 21.302 - Evidentiary Hearing Before Commissioner
(a) If a party alleges that procedural irregularities that are not reflected in the local record occurred at the hearing before the hearing examiner, the...
- Texas Section 21.303 - Determination By Commissioner
(a) If the board of trustees decided not to renew a teacher's term contract, the commissioner may not substitute the commissioner's judgment for that of...
- Texas Section 21.304 - Decision Of Commissioner
(a) The commissioner's decision must be in writing and must include findings of fact and conclusions of law. The commissioner may adopt by reference and...
- Texas Section 21.3041 - Rehearing By Commissioner
(a) Not later than the 20th day after the date the party or the party's representative receives notice of the commissioner's decision under Section 21.304,...
- Texas Section 21.305 - Costs On Appeal To Commissioner
(a) If a teacher appeals the decision of the board of trustees or board subcommittee, the school district shall bear the cost of preparing the...
- Texas Section 21.306 - Ex Parte Communications Prohibited
The commissioner and the staff of the agency may not communicate with any party or any party's representative in connection with any issue of fact...
SUBCHAPTER H APPRAISALS AND INCENTIVES
- Texas Section 21.307 - Judicial Appeals
(a) Either party may appeal the commissioner's decision to: (1) a district court in the county in which the district's central administrative offices are located;...
- Texas Section 21.351 - Recommended Appraisal Process And Performance Criteria
(a) The commissioner shall adopt a recommended appraisal process and criteria on which to appraise the performance of teachers. The criteria must be based on...
- Texas Section 21.352 - Local Role
(a) In appraising teachers, each school district shall use: (1) the appraisal process and performance criteria developed by the commissioner; or (2) an appraisal process...
- Texas Section 21.353 - Appraisal On Basis Of Classroom Teaching Performance
A teacher who directs extracurricular activities in addition to performing classroom teaching duties shall be appraised only on the basis of classroom teaching performance and...
- Texas Section 21.354 - Appraisal Of Certain Administrators
(a) The commissioner shall adopt a recommended appraisal process and criteria on which to appraise the performance of various classifications of school administrators. The criteria...
- Texas Section 21.3541 - Appraisal And Professional Development System For Principals
(a) The commissioner by rule shall establish and shall administer a comprehensive appraisal and professional development system for principals. (b) The commissioner may establish a...
- Texas Section 21.355 - Confidentiality
(a) A document evaluating the performance of a teacher or administrator is confidential. (b) Subsection (a) applies to a teacher or administrator employed by an...
- Texas Section 21.356 - Evaluation Of School Counselors
The commissioner shall develop and periodically update a job description and an evaluation form for use by school districts in evaluating school counselors. The commissioner...
SUBCHAPTER I DUTIES AND BENEFITS
- Texas Section 21.357 - Performance Incentives
(a) The commissioner shall design an objective system to evaluate principals that: (1) is based on types of information available as of January 1, 1995,...
- Texas Section 21.401 - Minimum Service Required
(a) A contract between a school district and an educator must be for a minimum of 10 months' service. (a-1) to (a-4) Expired. (b) An...
- Texas Section 21.402 - Minimum Salary Schedule For Certain Professional Staff
Sec. 21.402. MINIMUM SALARY SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN PROFESSIONAL STAFF. Text of subsection effective until September 01, 2017 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (f), a...
- Texas Section 21.4021 - Furloughs
(a) Notwithstanding Section 21.401 and subject to Section 21.4022, the board of trustees of a school district may, in accordance with district policy, implement a...
- Texas Section 21.4022 - Required Process For Development Of Furlough Program Or Other Salary Reduction Proposal
(a) The board of trustees of a school district may not implement a furlough program under Section 21.4021 or reduce salaries until the district has...
- Texas Section 21.403 - Placement On Minimum Salary Schedule
(a) A teacher, librarian, school counselor, or nurse shall advance one step on the minimum salary schedule under Section 21.402 for each year of experience...
- Texas Section 21.4031 - Professional Staff Service Records
(a) In this section: (1) "Salary schedule" means the minimum salary schedule under Section 21.402 or a comparable salary schedule used by a school district...
- Texas Section 21.4032 - Reductions In Salaries Of Classroom Teachers And Administrators
(a) This section applies only to a widespread reduction in the amount of the annual salaries paid to school district classroom teachers based primarily on...
- Texas Section 21.404 - Planning And Preparation Time
Each classroom teacher is entitled to at least 450 minutes within each two-week period for instructional preparation, including parent-teacher conferences, evaluating students' work, and planning....
- Texas Section 21.405 - Duty-free Lunch
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), each classroom teacher or full-time librarian is entitled to at least a 30-minute lunch period free from all...
- Texas Section 21.406 - Denial Of Compensation Based On Absence For Religious Observance Prohibited
A school district may not deny an educator a salary bonus or similar compensation given in whole or in part on the basis of educator...
- Texas Section 21.407 - Requiring Or Coercing Teachers To Join Groups, Clubs, Committees, Or Organizations: Political Affairs
(a) A school district board of trustees or school district employee may not directly or indirectly require or coerce any teacher to join any group,...
- Texas Section 21.408 - Right To Join Or Not To Join Professional Association
This chapter does not abridge the right of an educator to join any professional association or organization or refuse to join any professional association or...
- Texas Section 21.409 - Leave Of Absence For Temporary Disability
(a) Each full-time educator employed by a school district shall be given a leave of absence for temporary disability at any time the educator's condition...
- Texas Section 21.410 - Master Reading Teacher Grant Program
(a) The commissioner shall establish a master reading teacher grant program to encourage teachers to: (1) become certified as master reading teachers; and (2) work...
- Texas Section 21.411 - Master Mathematics Teacher Grant Program
(a) The commissioner shall establish a master mathematics teacher grant program to encourage teachers to: (1) become certified as master mathematics teachers; and (2) work...
- Texas Section 21.412 - Master Technology Teacher Grant Program
(a) The commissioner shall establish a master technology teacher grant program to encourage teachers to: (1) become certified as master technology teachers; and (2) work...
- Texas Section 21.413 - Master Science Teacher Grant Program
(a) The commissioner shall establish a master science teacher grant program to encourage teachers to: (1) become certified as master science teachers; and (2) work...
- Texas Section 21.414 - Classroom Supply Reimbursement Program
(a) The commissioner shall establish a reimbursement program under which the commissioner provides funds to a school district for the purpose of reimbursing classroom...
SUBCHAPTER J STAFF DEVELOPMENT
- Texas Section 21.415 - Employment Contracts
(a) A school district shall provide in employment contracts that qualifying employees may receive an incentive payment under an awards program established under Subchapter O...
- Texas Section 21.451 - Staff Development Requirements
(a) The staff development provided by a school district to an educator other than a principal must be: (1) conducted in accordance with standards developed...
- Texas Section 21.4511 - Professional Development Activities For Teachers And Administrators
(a) From funds appropriated for that purpose in an amount not to exceed $2.5 million each year, the commissioner may develop and award grants to...
- Texas Section 21.4513 - Professional Development Requirements Audit
(a) Using only available funds and resources from public or private sources, the agency shall periodically conduct an audit of the professional development requirements applicable...
- Texas Section 21.452 - Developmental Leaves Of Absence
(a) The board of trustees of a school district may grant a developmental leave of absence for study, research, travel, or another suitable purpose to...
- Texas Section 21.453 - Staff Development Account
(a) The staff development account is an account in the general revenue fund. The account consists of gifts, grants, donations, appropriations for the purpose of...
- Texas Section 21.454 - Mathematics Training
(a) The commissioner shall develop training materials and other teacher training resources for a school district to use in assisting mathematics teachers in developing: (1)...
- Texas Section 21.4541 - Mathematics Instructional Coaches Pilot Program
(a) From funds appropriated for that purpose, the commissioner by rule shall establish a pilot program under which participating school districts and campuses receive grants...
- Texas Section 21.455 - Professional Development Institutes In Mathematics
(a) The commissioner shall develop and make available professional development institutes for teachers who provide instruction in mathematics to students at the fifth through eighth...
- Texas Section 21.4551 - Teacher Reading Academies
(a) The commissioner shall develop and make available reading academies for teachers who provide instruction to students at the sixth through eighth grade levels. (b)...
- Texas Section 21.4552 - Teacher Literacy Achievement Academies
(a) The commissioner shall develop and make available literacy achievement academies for teachers who provide reading instruction to students at the kindergarten or first, second,...
- Texas Section 21.4553 - Teacher Mathematics Achievement Academies
(a) The commissioner shall develop and make available mathematics achievement academies for teachers who provide mathematics instruction to students at the kindergarten or first, second,...
- Texas Section 21.4554 - Reading-to-learn Academies
(a) The commissioner shall develop and make available reading-to-learn academies for teachers who provide reading comprehension instruction to students at the fourth or fifth grade...
- Texas Section 21.456 - Science Training
(a) The commissioner shall develop and have approved by the board training materials and other teacher training resources for a school district to use in...
- Texas Section 21.457 - Training For Teachers Of Students Of Limited English Proficiency
The commissioner shall develop and make available training materials and other teacher training resources to assist teachers in developing the expertise required to enable students...
- Texas Section 21.458 - Mentors
(a) Each school district may assign a mentor teacher to each classroom teacher who has less than two years of teaching experience in the subject...
- Texas Section 21.459 - Bible Course Training
(a) The commissioner shall develop and make available training materials and other teacher training resources for a school district to use in assisting teachers of...
- Texas Section 21.463 - Resources For Teachers Of Students With Special Health Needs
The agency, in coordination with the Health and Human Services Commission, shall establish and maintain an Internet website to provide resources for teachers who teach...
SUBCHAPTER K TEXAS TROOPS TO TEACHERS PROGRAM
- Texas Section 21.464 - Prekindergarten Teacher Training Course
(a) The commissioner shall develop a prekindergarten teacher training course to be offered to prekindergarten teachers employed by a school district or open-enrollment charter school....
- Texas Section 21.501 - Definition
In this subchapter, "program" means the Texas Troops to Teachers Program. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, Sec. 2.07(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
- Texas Section 21.502 - Establishment Of Program
The agency shall establish a program to: (1) assist persons who have served in the armed forces of the United States and are separated from...
- Texas Section 21.503 - Eligibility
A person is eligible for the program if the person: (1) has served in the armed forces of the United States; (2) is honorably discharged,...
- Texas Section 21.504 - Information And Applications
(a) The agency shall develop an application for the program. (b) The agency and the State Board for Educator Certification shall distribute the applications and...
- Texas Section 21.505 - Selection Of Participants
(a) The agency shall select persons to participate in the program on the basis of applications submitted to the agency. (b) Each application must be...
- Texas Section 21.506 - Limitation On Implementation
The agency may not select a person to participate in the program unless the agency has sufficient state appropriations to pay the stipend provided by...
- Texas Section 21.507 - Preferences
(a) In selecting persons to participate in the program, the agency shall give preference to a person who: (1) has significant educational or military experience...
- Texas Section 21.508 - Agreement
A person selected to participate in the program must enter into a written agreement with the agency under which the person agrees to: (1) obtain,...
- Texas Section 21.509 - Stipend
The agency shall pay to each participant in the program a stipend of $5,000. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, Sec. 2.07(a), eff....
- Texas Section 21.510 - Reimbursement
(a) A participant in the program who fails to obtain certification or employment as required in the agreement under Section 21.508 or who voluntarily leaves...
SUBCHAPTER L TEACH FOR TEXAS PILOT PROGRAM RELATING TO ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION
- Texas Section 21.511 - Rules
The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement this subchapter. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, Sec. 2.07(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by:...
- Texas Section 21.551 - Purposes
The purposes of the alternative certification Teach for Texas Pilot Program are to: (1) attract to the teaching profession persons who have expressed interest in...
- Texas Section 21.552 - Program Established
The State Board for Educator Certification by rule shall establish the Teach for Texas Pilot Program consistent with the purposes provided by Section 21.551. Added...
SUBCHAPTER M CAREERS TO CLASSROOMS PROGRAM
- Texas Section 21.553 - Financial Incentives
(a) The pilot program must offer to participants financial incentives, including tuition assistance and loan forgiveness. In offering a financial incentive, the State Board for...
- Texas Section 21.601 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by 20 U.S.C. Section 1001 and its subsequent amendments. (2) "Program" means the...
- Texas Section 21.602 - Establishment Of Program
The agency shall establish a program to: (1) assist persons in obtaining certification in this state as elementary or secondary school teachers or educational aides;...
- Texas Section 21.603 - Eligibility
A person is eligible for the program if: (1) in the case of a person planning to become certified in this state as a public...
- Texas Section 21.604 - Information And Applications
(a) The agency shall develop an application for the program. (b) The agency and the State Board for Educator Certification shall distribute the applications and...
- Texas Section 21.605 - Selection Of Participants
(a) The agency shall select persons to participate in the program on the basis of applications submitted to the agency. (b) Each application must be...
- Texas Section 21.606 - Preferences
(a) In selecting persons to participate in the program who are planning to become certified in this state as teachers, the agency shall give preference...
- Texas Section 21.607 - Agreement
(a) A person selected to participate in the program who is planning to become certified as a teacher must enter into a written agreement with...
- Texas Section 21.608 - Stipend
The agency shall pay to each participant in the program a stipend equal to the lesser of: (1) $5,000; or (2) an amount equal to...
- Texas Section 21.609 - Reimbursement
(a) A participant in the program who fails to obtain certification or employment as required by the agreement under Section 21.607 or who voluntarily leaves...
- Texas Section 21.610 - Grants To Facilitate Placement
(a) The agency may enter into an agreement as prescribed by Subsection (b) with a school district described by Section 21.602(2) that first employs as...
SUBCHAPTER O EDUCATOR EXCELLENCE INNOVATION PROGRAM
- Texas Section 21.611 - Rules
The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 808, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
- Texas Section 21.701 - Definition
In this subchapter, "program" means the educator excellence innovation program. Added by Acts 2006, 79th Leg., 3rd C.S., Ch. 5 (H.B. 1), Sec. 4.08, eff....
- Texas Section 21.7011 - Purposes
The purposes of the educator excellence innovation program are to: (1) systemically transform: (A) educator quality and effectiveness through improved and innovative school district-level recruitment,...
- Texas Section 21.702 - Educator Excellence Innovation Program
(a) The commissioner by rule shall establish the program under which school districts, in accordance with local educator excellence innovation plans approved by the commissioner,...
- Texas Section 21.703 - Amount Of Grant Award
(a) Each state fiscal year, the agency shall provide each school district approved on a competitive basis under this subchapter with a grant in an...
- Texas Section 21.704 - Local Educator Excellence Innovation Plans
(a) In a school district that intends to participate in the program, the district-level planning and decision-making committee established under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, shall...
- Texas Section 21.706 - Innovation Plan Payments; Authorized General And Specific Uses
A school district may use grant funds awarded to the district under this subchapter only to carry out purposes of the program as described by...
- Texas Section 21.7061 - Implementation Flexibility
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code and subject to Subsection (b), a school district may apply to the commissioner in writing in accordance...
SUBCHAPTER Q TEXAS TEACHER RESIDENCY PROGRAM
- Texas Section 21.707 - Rules
The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to administer this subchapter. Added by Acts 2006, 79th Leg., 3rd C.S., Ch. 5 (H.B. 1), Sec. 4.08, eff....
- Texas Section 21.801 - Establishment Of Program
(a) Not later than March 1, 2014, the commissioner of higher education shall, through a competitive selection process, establish a Texas Teacher Residency Program at...
- Texas Section 21.802 - Program Components
The teacher residency program shall include: (1) competitive admission requirements with multiple criteria; (2) integration of pedagogy and classroom practice; (3) rigorous master's level course...
- Texas Section 21.803 - Program Eligibility
To be eligible to be admitted and hired as a teaching resident under the program, an individual must: (1) have received the individual's initial teaching...
- Texas Section 21.804 - Selection Of Participants
The teaching residency program shall establish criteria for selection of individuals to participate in the program. The selection criteria must include: (1) a demonstration of...
- Texas Section 21.805 - Rules
The commissioner of higher education shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this subchapter. Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 949 (H.B. 1752),...
- Texas Section 21.806 - Authority To Accept Certain Funds
(a) The commissioner of higher education may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations from public and private entities to use for the purposes of...