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Board approves CTE employability-skills rule after debate over wording
Summary
The board approved for first reading and filing authorization proposed new 19 TAC chapter 127 (CTE employability skills) after members debated a minor wording amendment that failed and then passed the committee recommendation.
The State Board of Education approved for first reading and filing authorization proposed new 19 TAC chapter 127, Subchapter B (career and technical education employability skills, 127.15) as recommended by the committee of the full board. The committee motion required no second and members debated a small proposed wording change to student expectations offered by Dr. Belmetro; the amendment failed on a show-of-hands vote before the main motion passed by a roll call-style counted raise-of-hands (12 yes, 1 no).
During debate Member Hickman asked staff whether a separate engineering-level change would affect the level 1/level 2 framework in the employability text; staff said the framework still works for courses already identified as level 1/2 and that later course-level edits would be addressed in subsequent items. Members also proposed several small edits (article removal, phrasing changes) that were discussed but did not alter the committee recommendation.
The approved action moves the employability-skills language forward as first reading and filing authorization; further edits may be considered in later proceedings.
