19 Tex. Admin. Code § 101.3024 - Assessment Requirements for Students First Enrolled in Grade 9 Prior to 2011-2012 School Year or First Enrolled in Grade 10 or Above in 2011-2012 School Year
(a) Students who were
first enrolled in Grade 9 prior to the 2011-2012 school year or enrolled in
Grade 10 or above in the 2011-2012 school year must fulfill testing
requirements for graduation with the assessments required by Texas Education
Code (TEC), §39.023(c), as that section existed before amendment by Senate Bill
(SB) 1031, 80th Texas Legislature, 2007. For purposes of this section,
coursework necessary to graduate means all the coursework required under the
student's graduation plan.
(b) With
the exception of students who meet the criteria described in subsection (c) of
this section, students who were enrolled as follows shall fulfill testing
requirements for graduation with the assessments as required by TEC, §
39.023(c),
as that section existed before amendment by SB 1031, 80th Texas Legislature,
2007, with the applicable performance standards established by the commissioner
of education and published on the Texas Education Agency (TEA) website:
(1) in Grade 9 or higher on January 1, 2001,
regardless of when they are scheduled to graduate; or
(2) in Grade 8 or lower on January 1, 2001,
if they were on an accelerated track and fulfilled all coursework necessary to
graduate by September 1, 2004.
(c) A student who entered Grade 11 in the
1989-1990 school year or an earlier school year shall fulfill testing
requirements for graduation with assessments as required by TEC, §
39.023(c),
as that section existed before amendment by SB 1031, 80th Texas Legislature,
2007, under an applicable performance standard established by the commissioner
of education that corresponds to the performance standard in effect for the
exit-level Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) when the
student was first eligible to take the exit-level TEAMS. Performance standards
that apply to TEAMS students will be published on the TEA website.
(d) A student fulfilling testing requirements
under subsection (b) of this section will be required to take only those
sections of the exit-level Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) that
correspond to the subject areas formerly assessed by the exit-level Texas
Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) (reading, writing, and mathematics) for
which the student has not yet met the passing standard.
(1) If a student has not yet met the passing
standard on TAAS reading, the student will be administered only the reading
multiple-choice items from the TAKS English language arts (ELA) test.
(2) If a student has not yet met the passing
standard on TAAS writing, the student will be administered only the writing
prompt and the revising and editing multiple-choice items from the TAKS ELA
test.
(e) A student
fulfilling testing requirements under subsection (c) of this section will be
required to take only those sections of the exit-level TAKS that correspond to
the subject areas formerly assessed by the exit-level TEAMS (reading and
mathematics) for which the student has not yet met the passing standard. If a
student has not yet met the passing standard on TAAS reading, the student will
be administered only the reading multiple-choice items from the TAKS ELA
test.
(f) Effective beginning with
the 2017-2018 school year, a student who has taken but failed to meet
assessment graduation requirements under this section may receive a Texas high
school diploma if the student has qualified to graduate in accordance with TEC,
§
28.02541.
A student may not graduate under TEC, § 28.02541, if the student did not take each assessment instrument or the part of the assessment instrument for which the student has not performed satisfactorily at least three times.
(g)
Notwithstanding any of the requirements in subsections (a)-(f) of this section,
students who pass all of the required exit-level TAKS tests or meet the
alternate assessment requirements of Chapter 101, Subchapter DD, of this title
(relating to Commissioner's Rules Concerning Substitute Assessments for
Graduation) have fulfilled their testing requirements for graduation.
(h) Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year,
students first enrolled in Grade 9 or lower must fulfill testing requirements
for graduation with the end-of-course assessment instruments, as specified in
TEC, §
39.023(c),
as amended by SB 1031, 80th Texas Legislature, 2007.
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