Legislative Update and Advocacy

Fall 2011

At the State Board of Education meeting in November 2011, the Board discussed the timeline of TEKS revisions and textbook adoption. The Texas Education Agency provided the Board with several possible scenarios for re-synching the revision and adoption timelines. In the January 2012 meeting the Board will decide on whether to continue with the Mathematics TEKS revision timeline and conduct first reading of the draft revisions for mathematics, or delay first reading to a later time. If first reading occurs in January, second reading and final adoption will be scheduled for April 2012. The Board was also concerned about the indication from some of the writing team members that there were still some issues on the vertical alignment of the mathematics TEKS. The Board will decide at the January board meeting how to address this concern.

The current timeline calls for implementation of the revised TEKS in the Fall 2013. More information about the TEKS revision process can be found online at

www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=2147499971

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