Higher Ed Coordinating Board Releases New Almanac
Texas higher education officials released the state's second annual higher education almanac on Tuesday, a publication designed to provide easily digestible information on every public college and university in the state, including average tuition and fees, students' average time to degree, and breakdowns on revenues and expenditures.
Gov. Rick Perry also called on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to follow up with colleges and universities to see how they are implementing cost efficiency measures he first raised in an executive order in 2009. Those include items such as "course redesign to improve quality and reduce instructional costs for ...

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Dave Fury via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Is he trying to make me laugh until I PUKE?!?! Progress? What? The us in 25th out of 40 globally in academic progress. And out of that, Texas is 32nd out of 50. This is PROGRESS? Adios, Mofo! What an idiot!
Dave Fury via Texas Tribune on Facebook
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Danny Wier via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You just made my coffee shoot through my nose.
David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Almanac is a fun word to say.
think
Appetite? Must be out to lunch. All the facts are already out online with an easy search on google as part of public records on how public dollars are supposed to be spent.
The fact is that country club tuition hikes and Walmart cost policies contradict each other.
Must be too much Tea Parties. That doesn't look like an almanac, it is grade school power points. But what do you expect from the party that is trying to abolish Education Dept and waged war on education : cartoon graphics being passed of as higher education information.
gypsy314 ne
School vouchers is the short answer and get government out of the education system period. Let parents and teachers educate our children. Anyone but Obama the fraud and the liar democrats!