Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY › Chapter 74 - CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS › Subchapter BB - COMMISSIONER'S RULES CONCERNING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION › Section 74.1025 - Individual Graduation Committee Review

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Effective beginning with the 2014-2015
				  school year, in accordance with the Texas Education Code (TEC), § 28.0258,
				  §
										101.3022
				  of this title (relating to Assessment Requirements for Graduation), and the
				  course requirements in Chapter 74, Subchapter B, of this title (relating to
				  Graduation Requirements), a school district or an open-enrollment charter
				  school may award a high school diploma to a student who has taken but failed to
				  achieve the end-of-course (EOC) assessment graduation requirements for no more
				  than two courses if the student has qualified to graduate by means of an
				  individual graduation committee.
(b) A school district or an open-enrollment
				  charter school shall establish an individual graduation committee at the end of
				  or after a student's 11th grade year to determine whether the student may
				  qualify to graduate. A student may not qualify to graduate as a result of an
				  individual graduation committee decision before the student's 12th grade
				  year.
(c) A school district or an
				  open-enrollment charter school may not establish an initial individual
				  graduation committee for eligible students after June 10 or before the start of
				  the next school year. Once the individual graduation committee has been
				  established, it is the original individual graduation committee for that
				  student.
(d) In order for a student
				  to be included as a graduate in the school district's or charter school's
				  graduation data in the school year in which the student meets the requirements
				  provided by law to graduate under individual graduation committee provisions,
				  an individual graduation committee must make a decision to award a diploma no
				  later than August 31 immediately following that school year. A student who
				  graduates as a result of an individual graduation committee decision after
				  August 31 shall be reported in the subsequent year's graduation data.
(e) If a student leaves a school district
				  after an original individual graduation committee has been established and
				  before that original individual graduation committee awards a high school
				  diploma to the student, any other district that later enrolls the student shall
				  request information from the student's original individual graduation committee
				  of record and shall implement the original individual graduation committee
				  recommendations to the extent possible.
(f) The individual graduation committee shall
				  consist of the following:
(1) the principal
				  or principal's designee;
(2) for
				  each EOC assessment instrument on which the student failed to perform
				  satisfactorily, the teacher of the course;
(3) the department chair or lead teacher
				  supervising the teacher described by paragraph (2) of this subsection;
				  and
(4) as applicable:
(A) the student's parent or person standing
				  in parental relation to the student;
(B) a designated advocate if the person
				  described by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph is unable to serve;
				  or
(C) the student, at the
				  student's option, if the student is at least 18 years of age or is an
				  emancipated minor.