19 Tex. Admin. Code § 74.1025 - Individual Graduation Committee Review
(a) Effective beginning with the 2014-2015
school year, in accordance with the Texas Education Code (TEC), § 28.0258, §
101.3022 of this title (relating
to Assessment Requirements for Graduation), and the course requirements in
Chapter 74, Subchapter B, of this title (relating to Graduation Requirements),
a school district or an open-enrollment charter school may award a high school
diploma to a student who has taken but failed to achieve the end-of-course
(EOC) assessment graduation requirements for no more than two courses if the
student has qualified to graduate by means of an individual graduation
committee.
(b) A school district or
an open-enrollment charter school shall establish an individual graduation
committee at the end of or after a student's 11th grade year to determine
whether the student may qualify to graduate. A student may not qualify to
graduate as a result of an individual graduation committee decision before the
student's 12th grade year.
(c) A
school district or an open-enrollment charter school may not establish an
initial individual graduation committee for eligible students after June 10 or
before the start of the next school year. Once the individual graduation
committee has been established, it is the original individual graduation
committee for that student.
(d) In
order for a student to be included as a graduate in the school district's or
charter school's graduation data in the school year in which the student meets
the requirements provided by law to graduate under individual graduation
committee provisions, an individual graduation committee must make a decision
to award a diploma no later than August 31 immediately following that school
year. A student who graduates as a result of an individual graduation committee
decision after August 31 shall be reported in the subsequent year's graduation
data.
(e) If a student leaves a
school district after an original individual graduation committee has been
established and before that original individual graduation committee awards a
high school diploma to the student, any other district that later enrolls the
student shall request information from the student's original individual
graduation committee of record and shall implement the original individual
graduation committee recommendations to the extent possible.
(f) The individual graduation committee shall
consist of the following:
(1) the principal
or principal's designee;
(2) for
each EOC assessment instrument on which the student failed to perform
satisfactorily, the teacher of the course;
(3) the department chair or lead teacher
supervising the teacher described by paragraph (2) of this subsection;
and
(4) as applicable:
(A) the student's parent or person standing
in parental relation to the student;
(B) a designated advocate if the person
described by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph is unable to serve;
or
(C) the student, at the
student's option, if the student is at least 18 years of age or is an
emancipated minor.
(g) In the event that the teacher identified
in subsection (f)(2) of this section is unavailable, the principal shall
designate as an alternate member of the committee a teacher certified in the
subject of the EOC assessment on which the student failed to perform
satisfactorily and who is most familiar with the student's performance in that
subject area.
(h) In the event that
the individual identified in subsection (f)(3) of this section is unavailable,
the principal shall designate as an alternate member of the committee an
experienced teacher certified in the subject of the EOC assessment on which the
student failed to perform satisfactorily and who is familiar with the content
of and instructional practices for the applicable course.
(i) In the event that the student's parent or
person standing in parental relation to the student is unavailable to
participate in the individual graduation committee, the principal shall
designate an advocate with knowledge of the student to serve as an alternate
member of the committee.
(j) Each
school district and open-enrollment charter school shall report through the
Texas Student Data System Public Education Information Management System (TSDS
PEIMS) the following:
(1) the number of
students each school year for which an individual graduation committee is
established; and
(2) the number of
students each school year who are awarded a diploma based on the decision of an
individual graduation committee.
(k) A district shall maintain documentation
to support the decision of the individual graduation committee to award or not
award a student a high school diploma.
(l) This section only applies to a student
classified by the school district or open-enrollment charter school as an 11th
or 12th grade student in the 2014-2015 school year or thereafter.
(m) Provisions of this section expire
September 1, 2023. A student may graduate by means of an individual graduation
committee if the student has qualified for an individual graduation committee
under the TEC, §
28.0258, and the
individual graduation committee convened prior to September 1, 2023.
(n) A student receiving special education
services is not subject to the individual graduation committee requirements in
the TEC, §
28.0258, or the
provisions of this section. As provided in §
89.1070 of this title (relating to
Graduation Requirements) and §
101.3023 of this title (relating
to Participation and Graduation Assessment Requirements for Students Receiving
Special Education Services), a student's admission, review, and dismissal (ARD)
committee determines whether a student is required to achieve satisfactory
performance on an EOC assessment to graduate.
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