House Bill 3 (HB 3) amends Texas Education Code (TEC) to add Sec. 11.185 and 11.186 to include plans that target early childhood (EC) literacy and math proficiency and college, career, and military readiness (CCMR).
Plan Requirements
Under HB 3, school boards are required to adopt plans in career, and military readiness. All plans are required to include:
College, career, and military readiness plans are required to include:
- annual goals for aggregate student growth on CCMR readiness indicators evaluated under the student achievement domain; and
- annual targets for students in each group evaluated under closing the gaps domain.
Specific and Quantifiable Goals
To meet the requirement of specific and quantifiable, each board outcome goal needs to contain a baseline (current state), a target (future state), a population (which students will be impacted), and a deadline (month and year by when the current state will equal the future state). Annual targets must be included for each goal in addition to the five-year deadline target. It is recommended that school boards adopt progress measures to create alignment between district outcome goals and the board-adopted plans.
Progress Monitoring
Superintendents propose EC and CCMR plans to the board for adoption. It is recommended that the plans for each campus be aligned to the board outcome goals and progress measures in such a way that the specific campus plan is predictive of the board outcome goal and progress measures. It is also recommended that the plans and goals be influenceable by the superintendent in order that the superintendent’s evaluation can be aligned and indistinguishable from the board outcome goals and progress measures.
CTE Handbook GRS 2025-2026.pdf