Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
Chapter 74 - CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS
Subchapter C - OTHER PROVISIONS
Section 74.35 - Additional Requirements for High School Health Classes
Universal Citation: 19 TX Admin Code ยง 74.35
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) Parenting and paternity awareness.
(1) A school district and an open-enrollment
charter school shall incorporate instruction in parenting awareness into any
course meeting a requirement for a health education credit, using the materials
approved by the State Board of Education for this purpose in accordance with
Texas Education Code (TEC), §28.002(p). Implementation of this requirement
shall comply with requirements that the board of trustees of each school
district establish a local school health advisory council to assist the
district in ensuring that local community values are reflected in the
district's health education instruction as stated in TEC,
§28.004.
(2) A school district
may add elements at its discretion but must include the following areas of
instruction:
(A) parenting skills and
responsibilities, including child support;
(B) relationship skills, including money
management, communication, and marriage preparation; and
(C) skills relating to the prevention of
family violence, only if the school district's high schools do not have a
family violence prevention program.
(3) If the required high school health
education credit is earned through a course taken prior to Grade 9, the
materials and parenting awareness instruction must be incorporated into that
course or, at the district's discretion, may be incorporated into another
course available to all students in Grades 9-12.
(4) At the discretion of the district, a
teacher may modify the suggested sequence and pace of the program at any grade
level.
(5) A student under 14 years
of age may not participate in a parenting and paternity awareness program
without the permission of the student's parent or person standing in parental
relation to the student.
(6) A
school district shall use the materials approved by the State Board of
Education for this purpose beginning with the 2008-2009 school year.
(b) Alcohol awareness.
(1) A school district and an open-enrollment
charter school shall incorporate instruction in the dangers, causes,
consequences, signs, symptoms, and treatment of binge drinking and alcohol
poisoning into any course meeting a requirement for a health education credit
in accordance with TEC, §28.002(r).
(2) A school district shall choose an
evidence-based alcohol awareness program to use in the district's middle
school, junior high school, and high school health curriculum from a list of
programs approved by the commissioner of education for this purpose.
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