The State Board of Education won’t be investing any money in properties to lease to charter schools, at least for now.
July 2010
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Demographics
TribBlog: North vs. South
A group of border leaders claims Washington is ignoring Texas yet again — but the issue isn’t immigration or security this time.
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Ads Infinitum: Perry’s “Bill White, Liar Liar”
Rick Perry’s campaign is giving Bill White the Jim Carrey treatment.
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State Government
The Brief: July 22, 2010
The State Board of Education wades into a little bit of controversy — yet again.
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Public Education
Unchartered Waters
Lawyers for the State Board of Education advised members Wednesday to proceed cautiously with a proposal to invest $100 million of the Permanent School Fund in facilities that would be leased to charter schools.
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Demographics
Courting Hispanics: The Dems
The Hispanic vote in Texas is often referred to as a “sleeping giant” because of historically low turnout. If Hispanics were to show up at the ballot box in record numbers, they could easily influence elections of all kinds. In part two of his three-part series, Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports on the efforts of state Democrats to sound the alarm.
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Energy
A Pollution Solution?
Texas environmentalists have adopted a pragmatic strategy for winning tougher control of industrial air pollution through the Sunset Advisory Commission’s review process: They’ve teamed with a former commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to craft recommendations. They’re speaking with a unified voice. And they’re pursuing limited changes in existing practices.
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Public Education
Texas Schools Have a Math Problem
A new study suggests that while the state’s English curriculum is among the best in the nation, our math curriculum doesn’t measure up to a set of new national standards. Matt Largey of KUT News reports.
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Demographics
The Weekly TribCast: Episode 38
Evan returns for this week’s TribCast, in which the podcast gang takes up campaign finance, the Hispanic Republicans of Texas, Gov. Rick Perry’s taxes and the committee shakeup in the Texas Senate.