19 Tex. Admin. Code § 228.13 - Continuing Educator Preparation Program Approval
(a) An educator preparation program (EPP)
under this chapter shall be reviewed at least once every five years; however, a
review may be conducted at any time at the discretion of TEA staff. Beginning
with the 2026-2027 academic year, continuing approval reviews will evaluate
implementation of the requirements of this chapter, including implementation
during the 2025-2026 academic year.
(b) To conduct the five-year review, TEA
staff may conduct either:
(1) an onsite visit,
in which TEA staff go in person to an EPP's physical location to review the
EPP's evidence of compliance; or
(2) a desk review, in which TEA staff review
the EPP's evidence of compliance remotely.
(c) To efficiently administer and implement
the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC)'s purpose under this chapter
and the Texas Education Code (TEC), TEA staff must use the following risk
factors to determine the need for discretionary reviews and the type of
five-year reviews:
(1) a history of the EPP's
compliance with state law and SBEC rules, standards, and procedures, with
consideration given to:
(A) the seriousness
of any violation of a rule, standard, or procedure;
(B) whether the violation resulted in an
action being taken against the program;
(C) whether the violation was promptly
remedied by the program;
(D) the
number of alleged violations; and
(E) any other matter considered to be
appropriate in evaluating the EPP's compliance history;
(2) whether the EPP meets the accountability
standards under TEC, §
21.045; and
(3) whether the EPP is accredited by other
organizations.
(d) When
an EPP consolidates with another EPP as described in §
228.21 of this title (relating to
Program Consolidation or Closure), TEA staff shall conduct a review of the
resulting program within one year after the effective date for the
consolidation.
(e) The EPP under
review must pay the fee for the continuing approval review, as set out in
§
229.9 of this title (relating to
Fees for Educator Preparation Program Approval and Accountability), prior to
the start date of the review.
(f)
At the time of the review, the EPP shall submit to TEA staff a status report
regarding its compliance with existing standards and requirements for EPPs and
documentary evidence of its compliance. To determine whether the EPP's evidence
of compliance is sufficient, the EPP shall be scored on a rubric developed and
published by TEA staff. Eighty percent of the records reviewed must be
compliant with applicable requirements in the Texas Administrative Code and
TEC. Evidence of compliance is described in the figure provided in this
subsection.
(g) An
EPP's participation in a continuing approval review pilot may serve as the
EPP's required five-year review as prescribed in subsection (a) of this
section.
(h) An EPP is responsible
for establishing procedures and practices to ensure the security of information
against unauthorized or accidental access, disclosure, modification,
destruction, or misuse prior to the expiration of the retention period. Unless
specified otherwise, the EPP must retain evidence of compliance described in
the figure provided in subsection (f) of this section for a period of five
years. The EPP shall retain documents that evidence a candidate's eligibility
for admission to the EPP and all evidence of a candidate's completion of all
EPP requirements for a period of five years after a candidate completes,
withdraws from, or is discharged or released from the EPP.
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