The Senate Education Committee has sent legislation on minimum grading and attendance policies to the full chamber, but bills on residential development and special education policy have stalled.
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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Do Grants Offer Local Control, or Strings?
The Obama administration’s education budget includes $900 million for the Race to the Top program. And this time around, there’s a twist: Individual districts — as opposed to states — can apply for the funds.
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Demographics
Hispanic Lawmakers Spar Over Politics of Race, Education
Protecting education and recognizing that the rapidly growing Hispanic population will gain a major political voice in Texas were themes that emerged Monday at the Tribune’s “New Day Rising” forum.
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Public Education
To Block Gay-Straight Alliance, School Keeps Clubs Off Campus
Corpus Christi’s Flour Bluff ISD has blocked extracurricular clubs from meeting on campus to make sure it’s complying with federal law after denying approval of a gay-straight alliance.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
The best of our best content from Feb. 21 to 25, 2011.
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Public Education
Bill Would Shield School Finance System From Lawsuits
Some state lawmakers are hoping a new state constitutional amendment will bring an end to the so-called Robin Hood school finance system, as Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies reports.
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Public Education
Do Texas Schools Spend Too Much on Administration?
For lawmakers scrutinizing every possible saving, “administrative costs” presents an easy mark. But there may be less to cut than they imagine.
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Public Education
Senators Try to Buy Time for Teachers
With major state funding cuts looming, for many school districts, it’s not a question of if — but how and when — teacher layoffs will occur. A new bipartisan bill from education leaders in the state Senate could temporarily change how schools go about that.
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Public Education
Budget Cuts Have Some Calling for STAAR Delay
Texas school districts are bracing for budget cuts and layoffs in the coming months. But as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, the cuts have some worried about 2012, when the state will roll out STAAR, a new testing system.
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Public Education
Budget Cuts Have Some Calling for STAAR Delay
Texas school districts are bracing for budget cuts and layoffs in the coming months. And as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, education advocates are particularly concerned about the state’s roll out of STAAR, a new testing system, in 2012.