(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)] A student is eligible to substitute an alternative exit-level assessment for a TAKS [ Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (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. [(b)Each school district and charter school shall be responsible for verifying a student's eligibility for the alternative exit-level assessment.]
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 August 29, 2013
TRD-201303687 Cristina De La Fuente-Valadez
Director, Rulemaking
Texas Education Agency
Earliest possible date of adoption: October 20, 2013
For further information, please call: (512) 475-1497
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