“We will be passing this,” said Pat Hardy, a Republican on the Texas State Board of Education.
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Public Education
Austin ISD sex ed battle could be preview of state-level debate
Austin ISD’s contentious board meeting comes months before the State Board of Education revises its curriculum standards on sex education.
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Public Education
Analysis: In Texas education, finding and fixing problems is hard. And slow.
Arguments over standardized tests in Texas public schools obscure another problem with accountability: Why does it take so long to respond when educators think a school isn’t educating its students?
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Demographics
Texas grades school districts on an A-F scale. Explore your district’s grades here.
The changes to the new rating system — which gives districts a letter grade in three categories: student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps — were finalized during the 2017 legislative session.
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Politics
As a deadline nears, struggle between George P. Bush and State Board of Education isn’t letting up
Bush presides over the School Land Board, which has feuded with the State Board of Education over the disbursement of hundreds of millions of dollars from Texas’ education endowment.
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Texas education board moves to reinsert Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller into curriculum
The day after backing the motions on Clinton and Keller, the State Board of Education voted to keep Moses in high school U.S. history standards.
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Politics
Texas education board set to approve curriculum some say is historically inaccurate
After a politically charged September meeting, the State Board of Education meets this week to approve “streamlined” social studies curriculum standards. Teachers’ responses are mixed.
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Public Education
A Texas Board of Education seat hasn’t flipped since 2010. Will that change in 2018?
While most education board races are decided in the primaries, the combination of a blue wave and a big chunk of fundraising could upset a historically Republican district in North Texas.
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State Board of Education votes to keep “heroic” in description of Alamo defenders
Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott rallied his supporters on social media against the removal of defining Alamo defenders as “heroic” from social studies curriculum standards. This week, the State Board of Education tentatively voted to keep the language intact.
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Public Education
Texas education board workgroup changes course on “heroic” Alamo defenders
After submitting a recommendation to remove the word “heroic” from seventh-grade history textbooks, a Texas State Board of Education workgroup backed off its proposal after outcry from officials and the public.
