Friday, January 25, 2013

REP. JAMES WHITE FILED HB 704 TO PROTECT TEXAS SCHOOLS FROM OBAMA'S Common Core Standards Agenda

the following message is from Donna Garner:



1.25.13

Texas Rep. James White has filed HB 704 in an effort to protect Texas from the Obama administration’s takeover of the public schools through Common Core Standards. Please express your appreciation to Rep. White for his efforts and then contact Texas Legislators and ask them to vote for HB 704. Below I have posted HB 704.

Donna Garner

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By:  Rep. James White                                                                                        H.B. No. 704


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to public school curriculum standards and assessment instruments.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1.  Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsections (b-1), (b-2), (b-3), and (b-4) to read as follows:
(b-1)  In this section, "common core state standards" means the national curriculum standards developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
(b-2)  The State Board of Education may not adopt common core state standards to comply with a duty imposed under this chapter.
(b-3)  A school district may not use common core state standards to comply with the requirement to provide instruction in the essential knowledge and skills at appropriate grade levels under Subsection (c).
(b-4)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a school district or open-enrollment charter school may not be required to offer any aspect of a common core state standards curriculum.
SECTION 2.  Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows:
(a-3)  The agency may not adopt or develop a criterion-referenced assessment instrument under this section based on common core state standards as defined by Section 28.002(b-1).
SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

3 comments:

  1. Thank you, Representative White. What effect does this have on CSCOPE?

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  2. That was my question also.
    Is CSCOPE considered to be part of "common/national core" and does this apply to all electronic cirriculum as well as text books?
    This is were they "got" us the last time, electronically. This is why CSCOPE was so easily implemented.

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  3. Physical Science is the part of Science known as Physics (PS), every student in class 10th grade studying at Government & Private Schools of the state board can download the AP SSC PS Model Paper 2023 with answers for all topics of the course designed by the board experts based on the new revised syllabus and curriculum of the BSEAP. Either Telugu medium, English medium and Urdu medium students of class 10th can download the AP SSC Physics model papers 2023 to practice with regular revisions and mock tests. AP SSC Physics Question Paper Class teachers and leading institutional experts are prepared those AP 10th Class PS Model Paper 2023 Pdf with answers that support all exam formats of the board such as Summative Assessments (SA-1 & SA-2) and Formative assessments (FA-1, FA-2, FA-3, FA-4) along with Assignments.

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