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Public Education
Explore The Texas Tribune’s coverage of public education, from K-12 schools and funding to teachers, students, and policies shaping classrooms across Texas.
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Public Education
Schools Find Many Ways to Adapt Grades to Test
This year, for the first time, students’ scores on standardized tests will count 15 percent toward their final grades. It sounds straightforward, but how some districts are applying the so-called 15 percent rule threatens to spark the next political battle over a test that has seen plenty of them.
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Public Education
Texas Museums Seeing Fewer School Children, Dwindling Dollars
Cultural institutions that once counted on revenue from student field trips are feeling the hit of the state’s multibillion-dollar education cuts.
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Higher Education
The Hot Seat: A Conversation with Eiland and Taylor
At our Hot Seat conversation at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston on 12/14, state Reps. Craig Eiland, D-Galveston, and Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, discussed cuts to public and higher education and other byproducts of the 82nd Session.
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Criminal Justice
What Will 2012 Hold for Politics, Policy and Perry?
Texans will close out 2011 with more questions than answers, from the outcomes of redistricting and Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential bid to the effects of lawmakers’ multibillion-dollar budget cuts. Here’s hoping 2012 brings some resolution.
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Criminal Justice
TribYear: (Some of) Our Best Stories of 2011
In the spirit of TribWeek and TribMonth, we present TribYear. Ten of our best stories of 2011.
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Criminal Justice
10 Most-Viewed Data Apps of 2011: Salaries, Prisons, Public Schools
As it has since the Trib’s launch in 2009, data continued to reign supreme on the site in 2011. Today, we take a look at the 10 most-visited data apps since Jan. 1.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson on Rick Perry’s Texas Enterprise Fund, Aguliar on the DOJ’s Joe Arpaio problem, Galbraith on the uncertainty about Texas’ electric grid, Grissom and Schwartz of The New York Times on the latest in the Michael Morton case, Hamilton on the first leg of Perry’s Iowa bus tour, Murphy and McLain unveil our new campaign finance database, Ramsey et al. go live with the first round of our 2012 election brackets, Root on a GOP rival’s queries about Perry’s pension play, M. Smith contrasts the various school finance lawsuits and Tan, Dehn and Murphy on a shortage of mental health professionals: The best of our best content from December 19-23, 2011.
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Public Education
Keeping the School Finance Cases Straight
By the end of the year, there will likely be four school finance lawsuits filed against the state. Here’s a primer.
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Public Education
Measuring the Impact of Historic Education Cuts
One question has dominated education conversations in Texas since even before the 2011 legislative session and budget slashing began: How will public schools be affected? The answers are many and varied.