Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 1 - TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
Chapter 9 - PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT IN PUBLIC TWO-YEAR COLLEGES
Subchapter H - PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC TWO-YEAR COLLEGES
Section 9.142 - Authority
Texas Education Code (TEC), §§29.182, 29.184, 61.076(a), 61.851 through 61.855, 130.001(b)(3) - (4), 130.008, 130.090, and 135.06(d), authorize the Coordinating Board to adopt policies, enact regulations, and establish rules for public two-year colleges to enter into agreements with secondary schools to offer courses which grant credit toward the student's high school academic requirements and/or college-level credit. In addition, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (hereinafter known as "the Act"), as amended, authorizes the State Board of Education in its capacity as the State Board for Career and Technology Education to designate the Coordinating Board as the administering agency of the Tech-Prep Education Act, or that section, part, or title of the Act referring to Tech-Prep Education.