The State Board of Education Committee on Instruction on June 19 recommended final adoption of a multi-year reorganization that moves the remaining Career and Technical Education (CTE) standards from 19 TAC chapter 130 into chapter 127 and implements targeted technical edits.

TEA staff described the package as the culmination of a multi‑year rulemaking referred to in the meeting as “the big move.” The proposed action repeals 19 TAC chapter 130 and revises 19 TAC chapter 127 so that CTE standards live in a single chapter. Staff said the action captures prior course‑specific changes and reduces the need for future piecemeal amendments.

Committee members approved a multi-part motion to accept staff’s recommended amendments, including (1) removing program-of-study level language from courses, (2) replacing embedded employability skills with cross‑references to a single employability‑skills standard, (3) moving domain‑specific employability expectations into appropriate K/S statements for affected courses, (4) correcting course‑title references (for example, Livestock and Poultry Production), and (5) updating cluster descriptions to reflect recent cluster name changes.

The committee then voted to approve repeal of 19 TAC chapter 130 and revisions to chapter 127 and made an affirmative finding that immediate adoption was necessary. The committee set an effective date of Aug. 1, 2025, for the adopted rules.

Why it matters: consolidating CTE standards into chapter 127 is intended to simplify rule maintenance and to reflect prior course‑level adjustments made by the board. Staff said the move will decrease the need for subsequent small rule changes and will keep the CTE program-of-study structure consistent across the rule set.

Supporting details: TEA staff said the change also retains specialized, domain‑specific student expectations by relocating them to appropriate knowledge-and‑skill statements. The committee’s motion carried with no recorded opposition; staff will publish the adopted language and implement the effective date per administrative rules.