The State Board of Education may try to modify the state’s rigid new standardized exams — the STAAR tests — in a way that allays school districts’ concerns that they’re losing local control over grading.
Public Education
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Inside Intelligence: The School Finance Lawsuits Will…
For this week’s nonscientific survey of political and government insiders, we asked about whether the latest round of school finance lawsuits is serious and how it will play during the elections and in the legislative session that starts in 2013.
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson interactively asks if stimulus funds created jobs in Texas, Aguilar on new voter registrar rules that could decrease voter turnout, Galbraith on a UT professor’s debunking of climate change “myths,” Grissom on an epic clash of El Paso political titans, Hamilton on the right’s new higher ed guru, Murphy maps household data from the 2010 Census, Ramsey on a coming rules fight in the Texas Senate, Root and M. Smith on Rick Perry’s performance at the New Hampshire debate and M. Smith talks public ed cuts with the state’s Superintendent of the Year: The best of our best content from October 10-14, 2011.
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Public Education
Online Classes Booming, But With Red Flags
As the popularity of online learning grows, public schools are grappling with how to most effectively integrate it into their classrooms — and some in the education community worry about the increasing influence of for-profit companies.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Intelligence: School Finance
This week, we asked the insiders whether the school finance lawsuits will play in the elections and in the next legislative session.
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Public Education
Frustrated by Legislature, Schools Go to Court
The lawsuits are back for the sixth time in the last 40 years, carrying the issue that dominated Rick Perry’s first years as governor: Is the state spending enough money, and distributing it fairly enough, to ensure that every kid in the state has a shot at an adequate public school education?
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Public Education
Texas Launches No Kid Hungry Campaign
A sea of 150 elementary and middle school students from Austin and Waco met on the steps of the Capitol today to sing, cheer and kick off the Texas No Kid Hungry Campaign.
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Public Education
The Weekly TribCast: Episode 101
On this week’s TribCast, Evan, Ross, Reeve and Jim review the most recent debate, discuss the looming lawsuits on school finance and consider proposals for Confederate flag license plates.
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Public Education
John Folks: The TT Interview
The outspoken head of the state’s fourth-largest school district— newly crowned as Superintendent of the Year — on school finance lawsuits, the impact of cuts to public education funding and the upcoming transition to end-of-course exams.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Murphy, Ramshaw and Root on Rick Perry and race, Philpott on Perry’s vague economic plans, Tan and Wiseman on Barack Obama’s foray into Texas to defend his jobs plan, Aguilar on Perry’s proposal to send U.S. troops to Mexico, Ramshaw on efforts to leash rising health care costs, M. Smith on upcoming legal challenges to the state’s school finance system, Aaronson interactively explores Medicare spending proposals, Galbraith on efforts to pass — and to oppose — a $6 billion water program, Grissom on the release of a man wrongly convicted of murder and Hamilton on efforts to let the public write some legislation: The best of our best content from October 3 to 7, 2011.