Texas Education Agency Commissioner Robert Scott received a standing ovation today after he told a gathering of public school educators that the state testing system has become a “perversion of its original intent.”
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The Hot Seat: A Conversation with Valley Lawmakers
At our Hot Seat conversation at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg on 1/24, state Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and state Reps. Veronica Gonzales, D-McAllen, and Aaron Peña, R-Edinburg, discussed cuts to public education, redistricting and other by-products of the 82nd Legislative Session.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Tan and Dehn talk to some of Gov. Rick Perry’s allies about his return to Texas, Aaronson maps (interactively!) the insured and the uninsured among us, E. Smith’s TribLive interview with state Rep. David Simpson on Perry’s race and TSA pat-downs, M. Smith on a Texas school so broke it’s shutting down sports, Whitney on a split in the legal community over divorce forms, KUT’s Philpott on abuse in state hospitals, Ramshaw reports on the governor’s decision not to repay taxpayers for protection during his presidential campaign and Aguilar on the state’s attempts to put its voter ID law in force: The best of our best content from January 23-27, 2012.
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Inside Intelligence: Trying to Catch On
The insiders think Ron Paul’s biggest obstacle is Ron Paul, are pessimistic about Texas Democrats, and predict Democratic primaries focused on education and Republican primaries focused on spending and taxes.
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Weekend Insider: Abortion Sonogram Law, Cancelling Highschool Sports
Emily Ramshaw explains how family planning clinics are complying with the state’s new abortion sonogram law. Morgan Smith shows us a school district that is canceling its sports program.
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Slideshow: A School Without Sports
In a rare move in a state where the football field is hallowed turf, Premont ISD has suspended all athletics — including football — to improve its struggling finances. But the decision has brought little backlash from the community in South Texas, perhaps a measure of how dire the school’s circumstances have become.
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Slideshow: A School Without Sports
In a state where the football field is hallowed turf, Premont ISD has suspended all athletics — including football — to improve its struggling finances.
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Texas District Suspends Sports to Stay Afloat
In a daring and rare move in a state where the football field is hallowed turf, a superindent has suspended all athletics to help his South Texas district improve its struggling finances.
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A New Test Looms, and Questions Remain
Texas lawmakers on Monday reviewed how schools are planning to implement a new standardized testing system, and as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, they came armed with plenty of questions.
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Tan and Root on the Texas presidential candidates returning to the state where Rick Perry started his campaign, Philpott on Perry’s swipes at Mitt Romney, Ramshaw on Griffin Perry’s tweets, M. Smith on the next round of fights over student testing, E. Smith’s TribLive interview with Michael Quinn Sullivan, yours truly on the sliding primary election calendar, Hamilton on higher-education efforts to bolster the Texas work force, Grissom’s interview with John Raley, Galbraith on the greenhouse gas wars and Aguilar on making it easier for immigrants to return to the U.S.: The best of our best content from January 9 to 13, 2012.