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The Texas State Board for Educator Certification was created in 1995 (Senate Bill 1, 74th Texas Legislature, Regular Session) to regulate the preparation, certification, continuing education, and standards of conduct for public school educators in Texas, functions that previously had been the responsibility of the Texas Education Agency, overseen by the Texas State Board of Education. The certification board provides guidance in program development, approval, and implementation to entities preparing educators for certification in Texas, including (as of February 2007) 70 universities, 16 community colleges, 30 alternative teacher certification programs, and 11 alternative administrator certification programs. The certification board manages the development and administration of the examinations of five testing programs. It monitors the quality of educator preparation at university and alternative certification programs through the Accountability System for Educator Preparation (ASEP). The certification board issues educator credentials. And it ensures that Texas educators meet the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior, by enforcement of disciplinary rules and the Educators' Code of Ethics, and investigation of allegations of educator misconduct.
The Texas State Board for Educator Certification was originally
composed of 15 members (14 members since 2003). Twelve of these (eleven since
2003) are voting members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent
of the State Senate for overlapping six-year terms, and include the following:
four teachers employed in public schools, two public school administrators, one
public school counselor, and five public members (four since 2003) not employed
either by a public school district, or by an educator preparation program in an
institution of higher education (two of the five/one of the four
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The Texas State Board for Educator Certification regulates the preparation, certification, continuing education, and standards of conduct for public school educators in Texas, functions that are documented by these records. These records include minutes, agenda, agenda packets (containing supporting documentation), and press releases of the State Board for Educator Certification, dating 1996-1998. Beginning with the August 1997 meeting, thick agenda packets incorporate the supporting documentation collected for each meeting, including the executive director's updates, budgets, frameworks for examinations for certification, requests for pilot programs, program approval reports, new and amended rules and regulations, etc. Each discussion item typically includes a summary, the statutory authority, previous board action, background and significant issues, fiscal impact, a benefit statement, procedural and reporting implications, and public comments. The press releases number three, all issued in 1997.
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.
The records are organized by State Archives staff into two series:
(Identify the item and cite the series), Texas State Board for Educator Certification records. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Tony Black, December 1997, January 2007
Accession numbers: 1998/050, 2004/210, 2006/160
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Board for Educator Certification on December 11, 1997; and by the Texas Legislative Reference Library on July 20, 2004; and January 26, 2006.
The Texas State Board of Educator Certification posts its board
minutes and agenda (in ASP format for the agenda, with links in PDF format for
minutes) on the agency web site
The record copies of minutes and agenda are maintained by the Texas State Board of Educator Certification.