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Sharyland ISD board approves District of Innovation amendment, TSIA prep and CTE equipment purchases
Summary
Trustees approved an amendment to the district's District of Innovation plan to allow district-issued certificates for some CTE and nontraditional foreign language teachers, authorized TSIA teacher and student preparation through Princeton Review, and approved purchase of HVAC and welding equipment for CTE programs.
The Sharyland Independent School District board on May 20 approved a set of measures aimed at expanding career-technical education and streamlining college-readiness pathways.
The board unanimously adopted an amendment to the district's District of Innovation plan to seek exemptions from specified Texas Education Code teacher-certification provisions for some Career and Technical Education (CTE), STEM and programming-as-language courses. Jennifer, a staff member, told the board the amendment will request exemption from provisions cited as TEC 21.003 and TEC 21.057(a–e) for teacher certification in those specialty areas. She said special-education and bilingual staff will…
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