| (a) In accordance with the Texas Education Code (TEC),
Chapter 39, Subchapter B, the commissioner of education adopts the
SAT® verbal/critical reading and mathematics tests and the ACT®
English and mathematics tests as alternative exit-level assessments
that eligible students with qualifying scores may substitute respectively
for the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) exit-level
assessments in English language arts and mathematics beginning in
the spring of 2006.
(b) The commissioner establishes the level of performance
considered to be satisfactory on the approved alternative exit-level
assessments as follows.
(1) The required passing standard to qualify to substitute
the SAT® verbal/critical reading test for the TAKS exit-level
English language arts assessment is at least 472.
(2) The required passing standard to qualify to substitute
the SAT® mathematics test for the TAKS exit-level mathematics
assessment is at least 461.
(3) The required passing standard to qualify to substitute
the ACT® English test for the TAKS exit-level English language
arts assessment is at least 17.7.
(4) The required passing standard to qualify to substitute
the ACT® mathematics test for the TAKS exit-level mathematics
assessment is at least 19.5.
(c) An eligible student who has met the passing standard
on a state-approved alternative exit-level assessment as set by the
commissioner in subsection (b) of this section in a particular subject
area has satisfied the exit-level testing requirement in that subject
area.
(d) A student is eligible to substitute an alternative
exit-level assessment for a TAKS exit-level assessment for purposes
of this subchapter if the student after January 1 of the year in which
the student would otherwise be eligible to graduate:
(1) enrolls in a public school in Texas for the first
time; or
(2) enrolls in a public school in Texas after an absence
of at least four years from any public school in this state. A student
meets this requirement if he or she has not been enrolled for one
or more days in a public school in Texas in the four years preceding
the day on which the student enrolls in a Texas public school after
January 1 of the year in which the student would otherwise be eligible
to graduate.
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