Four public schools being run by private organizations under a partnership must drastically improve their state ratings over the next couple of years or else face forced closure.
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Snubbed by Texas lawmakers, local officials look to children for help to avoid a census undercount
Hoping to avoid an undercount of thousands of Hispanic and black Texans, Dallas, Harris and Hidalgo counties believe getting children engaged can bring families to participate in the 2020 census.
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Public Education
Texas schools with more student poverty got the most Ds and Fs in state ratings
At the same time, hundreds of high-poverty schools received A grades, including many in South Texas. Those are just some of the takeaways from this year’s ratings.
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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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Public Education
Texas put billions more into schools. Is that enough to help this high-poverty school district break out?
A new superintendent at the helm of Edgewood Independent School District is trying to move the schools beyond their reputation of struggle and dysfunction.
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Public Education
Analysis: Cheating Texas kids out of a better future
A school in Texas can fail to meet state education standards for four years before the state shuts it down. A lot of students can go without the education they’re due in four years’ time.
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Graphics and data reporting
Three Texas school districts face state penalties after getting failing grades. Look up your campus’ A-F grade here.
Houston ISD, the state’s largest school district, is among those that could have its school board taken over by the state, due to consecutive low ratings of one of its schools.
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Public Education
Texas tried to incentivize school districts to work with charters. Districts are turning to local nonprofits instead.
Not many school districts are partnering with charter schools, in some cases because they know it wouldn’t be politically palatable in their communities.
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Public Education
Texas just made it easier to punish students who harass teachers. Will the law be misused?
The change has re-upped a perennial debate over how to help teachers manage aggressive or violent student behavior — without increasing the chances that the state’s most disadvantaged kids will be disciplined and then drop out.
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Analysis: The extraordinary adventures of H. Ross Perot
Lots of Texans have great stories and interesting experiences. But some — like Ross Perot — pack more tales into a lifetime than most of us.