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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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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Public Education
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.
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Public Education
TribLive: A Conversation with Michael Quinn Sullivan
Full video of our 1/12 TribLive conversation with the conservative activist, who heads the watchdog groups Empower Texans and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility.
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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.