Legal Question in Education Law in Texas

curriculum changes

I am a nursing student. I just finished the required two years of class requirenments. Passed with no problems. There is an exam used to predict how one will do on the state boards (NCLEX). The name of this exam is the HESI. When we started school, two years ago, it was understood that this exam was only twenty percent of your final average. However, in the last semester of school, the instructors decided that a score of 850 was required instead. Only half of our class has achieved an 850, so only half of our class has officially graduated. We passed all the course and clinical requirements, however, since we did not achieve the 850 which they now require, we cannot graduate. This HESI exam is from company based out of Houston,Tx. It was only meant, to be a predictor of your probability of passing the state boards your first time out. Under the original curriculum with which we began, as did the previous classes of the last three and a half years, this HESI exam was to only be averaged into our final average. We were told this from the day we started nursing school. My question is this: is our accredited Nursing School legally allowed to changed the curriculum in our last semester. What recourse do we have? Thank you.


Asked on 12/28/05, 11:43 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
David Ortiz Law Office of David Ortiz

Re: curriculum changes

The answer depends on whether the school is a public school or private school. It also depends on what materials state the initial policy and then the changed policy. Either way, you need to confer w/ an attorney right away.

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Answered on 12/29/05, 1:13 am


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