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The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is the policy-making body of the Texas Education Agency (TEA), which coordinates all public educational activities and services except those of colleges and universities. TEA's organizational goals are to improve the effectiveness of school teachers and administrators; to enhance educational programs for students; to provide funding to local districts while ensuring proper use of state and federal funds; to conduct educational research; to develop and administer student and teacher testing programs; and to provide useful information bases. The SBOE approves, on the recommendation of the commissioner of education, the plan of organization; adopts policies, rules, and regulations; approves budgets; executes contracts for the purchase of textbooks and instructional materials as recommended by the commissioner; directs the investment of the Permanent School Fund; passes on appeals made from the decisions of the commissioner; reviews the educational needs of the state; and evaluates programs under the direction of TEA.
The first ex-officio Board of Education was created by the Texas
Constitution of 1866, Article X, Section 10, and consisted of the Governor,
Comptroller of Public Accounts, and Superintendent of Public Education. Its
composition was changed by the Texas Constitution of 1876, Article VII, Section
8, to include the Texas Governor, Secretary of State, and Comptroller of Public
Accounts,
The Texas Constitution, Article VII, Section 8, was amended by the
election of November 6, 1928, to read:
In 1949, the Texas Legislature (Senate Bill 115, 51st Texas
Legislature, Regular Session), reorganized state management of public education
in Texas. It abolished the
In 1984 (House Bill 72, 68th Texas Legislature, 2nd Called Session) specific State Board of Education districts were created, and the SBOE was reduced to 15 members, one member elected from each newly constituted SBOE district, for overlapping four-year terms. The commissioner of education is nominated by the board and appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate for a four-year term. That same legislation also established the Legislative Education Board to oversee the implementation of state-mandated education reforms and to set public education policy, which TEA and the State Board of Education implement.
In 1995 (Senate Bill 1, 74th Texas Legislature, Regular Session) the legislature, among other changes in education, established the Texas State Board of Education as an entity separate and apart from the Texas Education Agency, although SBOE is still considered the policymaking board for TEA. This law also created a new body, the Texas State Board for Educator Certification.
The Texas State Board of Education is also designated as the Texas State Board for Career and Technology Education (formerly called the Texas State Board for Vocational Education).
To recap, there are the following stages in its existence:
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The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is the policy-making body of the Texas Education Agency (TEA), which coordinates all public educational activities and services except those of colleges and universities. The SBOE approves the plan of organization for TEA; adopts policies, rules, and regulations; approves budgets; executes contracts for the purchase of textbooks and instructional materials as recommended by the commissioner; directs the investment of the Permanent School Fund; passes on appeals made from the decisions of the commissioner; reviews the educational needs of the state; and evaluates programs under the direction of TEA. These functions are well-documented by the minutes and agenda.
These records consist of copies of agenda packets, minutes, plus attachments for meetings of the Texas State Board of Education and its committees, dating 1950-2005. Typically (especially for later years) the agenda packets and the minutes are bound separately, and are both quite detailed. Often loose (unbound) are the official schedule and agendas for the board and its committees, for a month's meetings. The agenda packets contain slightly fuller itemized agendas for the board and its committees, with a column indicating the page numbers of the accompanying exhibits (texts of proposed and approved rules and regulations, committee reports (both narrative and statistical) with attachments, correspondence, resolutions, petitions, school board trustee applications and resumes, budgets, financial documents (e.g. Permanent School Fund securities lending activities), requests for proposals, summaries of legislation, etc.). The minutes packets contain copies of detailed minutes for the board and its committees, plus attachments. Especially in the earlier years, the minutes include those of the Texas State Board of Vocational Education (which is--ex-officio--the State Board of Education).
Committees of the State Board of Education have varied over the years; they have included, but are not restricted to, the following: Committee on Rules, Budget, and Finance; Committee on Special Populations; Committee on Vocational Education and High Technology; Committee on Instruction, Research, and Evaluation; Committee on Investment of the Permanent School Fund; Committee on Teacher Preparation, Support Services, and Litigation/Appeals; Committee on Internal Rules; Committee on Personnel; Committee on Long-Range Planning; Committee on Finance and Program; Committee on Students; Committee on Planning; Committee on Instruction; Committee on School Finance; Committee on Permanent School Fund; Committee on School Finance/Permanent School Fund; etc.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
These records are arranged by State Archives staff chronologically by meeting date.
(Identify the item), Texas State Board of Education minutes and agenda. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Tony Black, May 1998, April 2006, January 2007
Accession numbers: 1998/130, 2002/139, 2004/209, 2005/068, 2006/346, 2007/092
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas State Board of Education on May 26, 1998; May 31, 2002; and December 20, 2004; by the Texas Legislative Reference Library on July 19, 2004; and April 7, 2006; and by the Texas Legislative Council on January 29, 2007.
The Texas State Board of Education posts its minutes (in HTML format
for the most recent, in Microsoft Word format for earlier ones) on the Texas
Education Agency web site
The record copies of minutes and agenda are maintained by the Texas State Board of Education.