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TITLE 19 EDUCATION
PART 2TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
CHAPTER 74CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS
SUBCHAPTER COTHER PROVISIONS
RULE §74.35Additional Requirements for High School Health Classes
ISSUE 02/08/2008
ACTION Proposed
Preamble Texas Admin Code Rule

(a)A school district and an open-enrollment charter school shall incorporate instruction in parenting awareness into any course meeting a requirement for a health education credit, using the materials approved by the State Board of Education for this purpose in accordance with Texas Education Code (TEC), §28.002(p). Implementation of this requirement shall comply with requirements that the board of trustees of each school district establish a local school health advisory council to assist the district in ensuring that local community values are reflected in the district's health education instruction as stated in TEC, §28.004.

(b)A school district may add elements at its discretion but must include the following areas of instruction:

  (1)parenting skills and responsibilities, including child support;

  (2)relationship skills, including money management, communication, and marriage preparation; and

  (3)skills relating to the prevention of family violence, only if the school district's high schools do not have a family violence prevention program.

(c)If the required high school health education credit is earned through a course taken prior to Grade 9, the materials and parenting awareness instruction must be incorporated into that course or, at the district's discretion, may be incorporated into another course available to all students in Grades 9 - 12.

(d)A school district shall use the materials approved by the State Board of Education for this purpose beginning with the 2008-2009 school year.

This agency hereby certifies that the proposal has been reviewed by legal counsel and found to be within the agency's legal authority to adopt.

Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on January 28, 2008

TRD-200800361

Cristina De La Fuente-Valadez

Director, Policy Coordination

Texas Education Agency

Earliest possible date of adoption: March 9, 2008

For further information, please call: (512) 475-1497



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