\n(Lubbock Avalanche-Journal © 02/03/2012)
College of Education gets readiness grant \r\n\r\nTexas Tech?s College of Education, in collaboration with the South Plains Closing the Gaps P-20 Council, was awarded a $200,000 grant recently from the Texas Higher Education Coor"); document.write("dinating Board.\r\n\r\nThe grant will fund outreach activities to promote a college-going culture in the region. The College of Education Project FUTURE program, which serves sixt...\n
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Bowie speaker tackles bullying
\n(Odessa American © 02/03/2012)
An assembly of nearly 500 seventh-graders at Bowie Junior High sat silently as they saw i");
document.write("mages of students and teachers murdered at the hands of bullied students.\r\n\r\nThis week, all students in secondary schools in the Ector Independent School District learned the sometimes difficult consequences of bullying from national public speaker Phil Chalmers in his presentation, “Bullying: Not Cool!&...\n
School-funding conference urges activism
\n(San Antonio Express-News © 02/03/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Although the Texas Legislature isn't meeting this year to decide funding for public education, the statewide coalition named Save Texas Schools isn't taking a break from activism.\r\n\r\nMade up of parents, educators, students, business leaders and legislators, the group that wants more funding for public education is best known for attracting more than13,000 people to the State Capitol last spring in...\n
Tap rainy day fund for schools now
\n(San Antonio Express-News © 02/03/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Parents are justifiably concerned about STAAR, the newest version of Texas' upside-down school accountability system. The standardized test, which debuts this spring, is the latest example of Gov. Rick Perry and the legislative majority imposing accountability on everyone in the educa");
document.write("tional process but themselves.\r\n\r\nWhile loading more ?accountability? onto children in the form of STAAR, which is ...\n
Program gives homeless kids stability
\n(San Antonio KSAT (ABC) 12 © 02/03/2012)
SAN ANTONIO - \n There are an estimated 1,700 children in the Northside Independent School District alone who are in t");
document.write("ransition.Instead of living in the district, they may live at the Haven for Hope Shelter, or other homeless shelters. However, a federally-backed program is allowing them to stay at their same school, no matter where their family has to move to.\"I graduate in February...\n
Classrooms getting bigger - Districts submitting waivers to the state
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document.write("San Antonio WOAI (NBC) © 02/03/2012)
San Antonio -- Major budget cuts at the state level continue trickling down to local school districts. The Texas State Teachers Association says 12,000 teachers were "let go" because of the financial belt tightening.\r\n\r\nBut increasing classes isn't as easy as moving in a few extra desks. Schools have to get permission to make those changes by submitting a classroom waiver to the state...\n
Protesting pro-testers
\n(University Texas Daily Texan © 02/03/2012)
While speaking before 4,000 school officials at the Texas Association of School Administrators’ midwinter conference, Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott said that standardized testing in Texas public schools has become a “perversion of its original intent,” according to The Texas Tribune. Scott received a standing ovation when he described personal frustration with the bur...\n
Local government debt climbs to $192.7 billion
\n(Waxahachie Daily Light © 02/03/2012)
AUSTIN, Texas ? The combined debt of local governmental entities\nin Texas is fast approaching $200 billion.\r\n\r\nThe Texas Bond Review Board has compiled data for fiscal year 2011\nshowing cities, towns and villages, community and junior colleges,\ncou");
document.write("nties, health or hospital districts, public school districts and\nspecial districts have $192.7 billion debt.\r\n\r\n \n \n Subscription Required...\n
Los Fresnos Parents Say They Weren?t Notified About Meningitis Case
\n(Weslaco KRGV (ABC) 5 © 02/03/2012)
Posted 6:09 PM 2/2/2012 : \r\n Los Fresnos Parents Say They Werent ");
document.write("Notified About Meningitis Case\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\nLOS FRESNOS - School officials in Los Fresnos say one student has tested positive for viral meningitis. \r\n\r\nThe superintendent of Los Fresnos says the Palmer Lasko Elementary student became ill Jan. 13 with a fever. He was taken to the doctor and hasn't returned to scho...\n
Fewer funds pose pain: Big Coun");
document.write("try educators voice concerns
\n(Abilene Reporter-News © 02/02/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Though Texas legislators last spring predicted students wouldn't be affected by the $5.4 billion state education cuts, a recent survey of 241 public school superintendents revealed districts have been forced to lay off teachers, increase class sizes and cut programs that help struggling students.\n\n\"Budget cuts in the last legislative session have left schools with less funds to provide teachers, s...\n
DISD board president Lew Blackburn wants list detailing allowable uses of 45-minute workday extension
\n(Dallas Morning News © 02/02/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Dallas ISD board president Lew Blackburn wants a list detailing how principals can use an extra 45 minutes that have been added to teacher workdays.\n\nBlackburn said on Wednesday that he ha");
document.write("s asked interim Superintendent Alan King and other top administrators to come out with the list, which he expects to be done by Friday. He noted possible ways the time could be used, such as for planning and exte...\n
Curriculum plan angers parents
\n(Fort Worth Star-Telegram © 02/02/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Grapevine and Colleyville parents are unhappy with a reorganization of the middle school curriculum that will mix students taking advanced placement courses with classmates who previously enrolled in more basic courses.Officials say the change will merge the present track for students taking primarily pre-AP classes with students in what has been called on-grade-level course work into a college-re...\n
\n(Gilmer Mirror © 02/02/2012)
Gone at 3:17 released by Potomac Books \n\n \n\nDefinitive new book chronicles the 1937 New London, Texas, school explosion \n\n \n\nPerry Lee Cox tried to play hooky that morning, but his daddy caught him, spanked him, and drove him to class. Marshall Cox felt heartsick about the punishment but believed it was necessary. He watched his little boy walk toward the looming schoolhouse—show...\n
Hidalgo County willing to help build more walls
\n(Harlingen KGBT (CBS) 4 © 02/02/2012)
Sounds of construction surround Harwell Middle School in Edinburg.\n\n?Work on a wall to protect students from stray bullets is underway.\n\n?Hidalgo County agreed to?provide equipment for the?project, after bullets from nearby hunting grounds hit and injured two students.\n\n?\"It's unfortunate ");
document.write("the tragedy that occured to those two young boys,\" said Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia.\n\n?But Harwell Middl...\n
HISD's Grier pledges to improve bilingual education
\n(Houston Chronicle © 02/02/2012) (Registration Required)\n
The statistic was so troubling that Houston schools Superintendent Terry Grier sa");
document.write("id he asked his data guru three times to check it.\n\nOnly 30 percent of the district's students with limited English skills graduate high school with their class - a rate that places HISD at the bottom of the state's largest districts.\n\nGrier pledged this week to improve how the district educates students whose native ...\n
Does your child's school district exceed T");
document.write("X class size limits?
\n(Lufkin KTRE (ABC) 9 © 02/02/2012)
HUDSON, Texas (KTRE) -\n \n\nHudson ISD is one of the more than 8,000 Texas classrooms growing beyond class size limits. Funding cuts to public schools are forcing campuses like Peavy Primary to exceed the standard.\n\n\"It kind of hit us hard this year. We didn't really expect the 60 new students to come in. And, that's, usually, we have 5 more students come in and grow each year,\" said Pe...\n
MISD counselors have hands full with students needing to cope
\n(Midland Reporter-Telegraph © 02/02/2012)
As Midland teens continue to die by suicide, counselors at\nMidland schools are finding their offices full with students crying\nout for help and grieving the loss of a loved one.\n \n \n\nAlthough Ron Moss, MISD Student Development director, doesn't\nhave quantitative data on the number of students who have visited\nwi");
document.write("th the counselors, he said the 21 counselors in secondary schools\ndea...\n
Teachers seek special session to stop school cuts
\n(San Antonio Express-News © 02/02/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin\n\n\nGov. Rick Perry should call Texas legislators back to the Capitol for a special session");
document.write(" to spare more public school cuts next year now that the economic recovery is producing more revenue than expected, a teachers group said Wednesday.\n\n\nThe state ended the 2011 budget year with a $1.1 billion surplus, Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, noted and the current budget cycle is...\n
Hazing Gets More Violent
\n(San Antonio WOAI (NBC) ©");
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Fraternities and sororities, bands, sports teams, leadership groups, honor societies, and choirs. From college campuses down to the middle schools. Hazing is happening, and it's killing our kids. \n\n\nReports of recent deaths and injuries are bringing hazing front and center, with researchers warnings the attacks are getting increasingly violent and sexual. \n\n\n"All you want to do is be part of ...\n
STAAR still plagued by uncertainty
\n(Taylor Daily Press © 02/02/2012)
In a little more than a month, the unknown will finally be\nrevealed.\n \n \n\nThe STAAR, the new state standardized test that is replacing the\nTAKS this year, will be given starting in late March; however,\naccording to Barbara Dale, assistant superintendent of Taylor ISD,\nthere is still a lot of uncertainty as to what items will be\ntested, how they will be tested, and what the gradin...\n
The dual-credit dilemma
\n(University Texas Daily Texan © 02/02/2012)
In conversations about the future of higher education, dual credit elicits a wide range of opinions. Considered a cure-all by some and a cop-out by others, dual credit offers students the opportunity to concurrently fulfill high school and university requirements in a single course. While clas");
document.write("ses can meet at higher education campuses, they are increasingly being offered at and taught in high schoo...\n
Many Valley Schools Over State Limits for Classroom Size
\n(Weslaco KRGV (ABC) 5 © 02/02/2012)
Your child's education may be at risk. Several Valley schools are overcrowded.\n\nHundreds of Valley classrooms are beyond the st");
document.write("ate limit. It puts stress on the teachers. It affects your child's education. Classroom lessons may be harder to learn for some Valley students. Elementary schools across our area have too many students and too few teachers.\n\n\"It means that you're going to have an impact o...\n
School finance lawsuit necessary for all districts
\n(Westlake Picay");
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ByKal Kallison\n\n\nSpecial to the Picayune\n\n\nRecently, the Eanes school board voted unanimously to join a lawsuit against the state challenging the constitutionality of the Texas school finance system, one of four such lawsuits. A school finance system should accomplish several goals, including the goal to produce equivalent revenue for all school districts regardless of property wealth, assuming th...\n
New look, not new book: New tests, same text books
\n(Abilene Reporter-News © 02/01/2012) (Registration Required)\n
With the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test launching in March as the more rigorous education standard, it wasn't a surprise that a new math curriculum would be following on its heels.\n\nHowever, the Texas Board of Education's preliminary approval for new math standards in all grades Friday could hit a snag as an estimated $350 million w");
document.write("ould be needed to fund the new textbooks.\n\n...\n
Open government experts to host Amarillo seminars
\n(Amarillo Globe-News © 02/01/2012)
Freedom of information experts are scheduled to visit Amarillo on Friday to host an open government seminar for elected officials and others who want to learn about public records.\r\n\r\n?We think it?s");
document.write(" a good opportunity; we haven?t been to Amarillo in several years,? said Keith Elkins, executive director of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, a nonprofit organization that focuses on Firs...\n
Impact of Texas School Budget Cuts on Kids
\n(Amarillo KCIT (FOX) 14 © 02/01/2012)
AMARILLO, TX. --Billions of dollars for Tex");
document.write("as schools are now gone.\nNearly 5 and a half billion dollars in cuts to Texas school budgets are having a direct impact on the classroom.\n\nThat's what a new survey by the Texas American Federation of Teachers shows.\nAnd school superintendents surveyed say those cuts have affected class size the most.\n\n\"A lot of school districts have had to make drastic de...\n
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document.write(" back in black after budget balancing act
\n(Austin News 8 © 02/01/2012)
Austin teachers will keep their jobs this year after district officials announced they?re back in the black.\n\nMonday night, the board put an end to the district's state of financial emergency, almost a year after they declared it. \n\n\"AISD is no longer in a state of financial exigency and we do not plan to undergo a reduction in force as part of our budgeting process,\" AISD Superintendent Meria Car...\n
Rick Perry?s next act: Focus on key issues
\n(Conroe Courier © 02/01/2012)
After a short intermission, the next act will begin unfolding in\nthe long-running governorship of Rick Perry. He ought to make it an\naction-packed one and surprise critics ? now at an unprecedented\nnumber, according to a new Dallas Morning News poll ? who say he\nhas a thin portfolio to show for 11 years in office.\n \n \n\nOne side");
document.write("light of Perry's brief presidential campaign was free...\n
CISD joins legal action
\n(Corsicana Daily Sun © 02/01/2012)
From Staff Reports\n \n\n Corsicana Daily Sun\n The Corsicana Daily Sun\n \n \n \n\nTue Jan 31, 2012, 10:04 PM CST\n\n\nCorsicana — \n From Staff Reports\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n The Corsicana Independent School District has ");
document.write("joined with other school districts across the state in a legal challenge to the way Texas funds its public schools.\n\n\n\n The action by the CISD board comes as schools continue to face bud...\n
Dallas ISD reinstates teacher who was placed on leave after emailing trustee
\n(Dallas Morning News © 02/01/2012) (Registratio");
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After intense pressure and criticism, the Dallas school district reinstated a teacher placed on paid leave last week after he sent an email to a trustee voicing displeasure with a decision to extend teacher workdays 45 minutes.\r\n\r\nThe teacher, Joseph Drake, said the district notified him of his reinstatement Tuesday afternoon. He said he will return to his fourth-grade class at Central Elementary ...\n
Education commissioner won?t enforce ban on social promotion unless funding restored
\n(Dallas Morning News © 02/01/2012) (Registration Required)\n
AUSTIN ? Texas? education chief said Tuesday that he will not enforce the state ban on social promotion of students in public schools unless the Legislature restores funding to help students in danger of failing because of their low test scores.\r\n\r\nEducation Commissioner Robert Scott, speaking to school superintendents and adminis");
document.write("trators from across the state, said he does not believe students sho...\n
Killeen school district offers career paths
\n(Killeen Daily Herald © 02/01/2012)
1\n 2\n \n \n\n \n By Chris McGuinness\nKilleen Daily Herald\n\nKilleen High School's cafeteria was packed with students who showed up to hear a presentation about what the Killeen I");
document.write("ndependent School District's new Career Center will offer them next year.\n\n\"There has been a lot of interest by the students in the high schools we've visited so far,\" said Alison Belliveau, a career technical education co...\n
HISD Ranks 3rd in Breakfast Participation
\n(KRIV Fox (Houston) © 02/01/2012)
HOUSTON - Houston schools ar");
document.write("e near the top of their game when it comes to starting the day off right. \n\nThe Food Research and Action Center, a food advocacy group, ranked the Houston Independent School District third in the nation for providing eligible children with a healthy breakfast. \n\nThose in the top 10 of FRAC?s list serve a healthy breakfast free-of-charge, but only the Houston, Detroit an...\n
Fort Bend ISD considers swapping some textbooks for iPads
\n(KTRK 13 News © 02/01/2012)
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- \nOut with the old and in with the new technology. One Fort Bend school district could be trading in its textbooks for iPads. But it's not a cheap transition and in a district that's been forced to lay off teachers, many are asking if this is smart spending. \n\n\nRelated ContentMore: Got a story idea? Let us know! \n\n If approved, this larger project would be used to boost scienc...\n
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document.write("b>Teachers rally at administration building
\n(Odessa American © 02/01/2012)
Ector County Independent School District employees rallied Tuesday afternoon to voice their concerns to administration.\n\nThe rally, which started at 4:30 p.m., was spread by word of mouth and email among \n\nTeachers in Ector County Independent School District want to be heard and on Tuesday, some of them attended a rally");
document.write(" in front of administration offices to voice their concerns.\n\n The rally,...\n
Texas Schools Chief: Testing Has Gone Too Far
\n(Texas Tribune © 02/01/2012)
Texas Education Agency Commissioner Robert Scott said today that the state testing system has become a \"perversion of its original intent\" and that he was looking forward t");
document.write("o \"reeling it back in.\"\n\nAddressing 4,000 school officials at the Texas Association of School Administrators' annual midwinter conference, Scott said that he believed testing was \"good for some things,\" but that in Texas it has ...\n
TEA: More than 8,000 overcrowded classrooms in Texas
\n(Tyler KETK (NBC) 56 © 02/01/2012)
TYLER &mda");
document.write("sh; \n The standard classroom size in Texas is 22 students per teacher.\n\n\n\n\n To exceed that, a school district has to get a waiver.\n\n\n\n\n According to data from the Texas Education Agency, they've approved waivers for at least 8,243 classrooms during the 2011-2012 school year - a major jump from around just 2,200 the previous year.\n\n\n\n\n Jamie Womack with the American Federation of Teac...\n
Tyler ISD promotes anti-bullying campaign
\n(Tyler KYTX (CBS) 19 © 02/01/2012)
FROM: TYLER ISD PRESS RELEASE\n\nTyler – The Tyler Independent School District is working to make sure its schools provide a safe learning environment for all students. That is why Tyler ISD is promoting an anti-bullying campaign, including a Public Service Announcement on TISD TV Channel 19 and an anonymous bullying tip form on campus websites.\n\nThe Public Service Announcement, which can be s...\n
WISD trustees to consider at least one more school closure plan
\n(Waco Tribune-Herald © 02/01/2012) (Registration Required)\n
The Waco school board may be done accepting new plans for school closures and ready to cull a final plan from the proposals.\n\nOn Thursday, the board will meet to discuss what they are calling the red plan, recently submitted by former W");
document.write("aco Independent School District trustee Malcolm Duncan Sr. \n\n“One thing unique about Mr. Duncan’s proposal is the concept of moving sixth grade into the...\n
Austin school board lifts financial emergency status
\n(Austin American-Statesman © 01/31/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Austin school boar");
document.write("d members Monday night voted to take the district out of financial exigency, almost one year after declaring the fiscal emergency.\n\nFinancial exigency has allowed the district to eliminate more than 1,100 positions, including employees who were under contract. About 650 laid-off employees were rehired into other positions, said Michael Houser, the district's chief human resources...\n
Not all Central TX teaching jobs safe
\n(Austin KXAN (NBC) 36 © 01/31/2012)
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Exactly one year ago, the Austin school district announced plans to drastically downsize. In the beginning stages, administrators said nearly 500 teachers would lose their jobs. In the end, more than 1,100 positions -- from the classroom to central office -- were cut. \n\nAs promised, Monday night the superintendent will be following through with her promise to teachers and the commu...\n
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document.write("STAAR to be ?rigorous?
\n(Bastrop Advertiser © 01/31/2012)
More than 100 teachers and parents came out to Cedar Creek High School Jan. 19 for Bastrop ISD?s parent and board workshop to discuss the newest statewide student examination, the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness.\n\n\nJon Fessenden, an education consultant with Lead4ward and a former accountability director for Del Valle ISD");
document.write(", emphasized that the STAAR was going to be ?significantly mo...\n
BHISD gets positive performance report
\n(Baytown Sun © 01/31/2012)
Barbers Hill ISD trustees heard a pleasing performance report at\ntheir Monday night meeting.\n \n \n\nAccording to the Texas Education Agency?s 2010-2011 Academic\nExcellence Indicator S");
document.write("ystem, which measures student performance\nthrough TAKS scores and provides descriptive information for the\ndistrict and the state regarding students, staff, finances and\nprograms, Barbers Hill is meeti...\n
Klein ISD selected for National Digital Learning Day
\n(Copperfield Sun © 01/31/2012)
Klein ISD was selected to participate in ");
document.write("national Digital\nLearning Day for its innovative use of technology. As a result,\nfootage of Klein ISD students and administrators using technology\nwill be aired on Digital Learning Day, Feb. 1, a day designated by\nthe Alliance for Excellent Education and the U.S. Department of\nEducation.\n \n \n\nThe program originates from the Newseum in Wash...\n
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document.write("re than 8,000 classrooms in Texas now above class size cap
\n(Dallas Morning News © 01/31/2012) (Registration Required)\n
The number of elementary school classrooms in Texas exceeding the state's class size limit has now jumped to 8,243, according to the Texas Education Agency. In all, 286 school districts have requested waivers that allow them to put more than 22 students in elementary classes - with many of those districts in North Texas. The number of waivers this school year is more than three and half times the ...\n
\n(Dallas WFAA (ABC) 8 © 01/31/2012)
DALLAS — A Dallas ISD teacher remains on administrative leave after sending a critical e-mail to a school board member.\n\n\n\n\n\nTrustee Edwin Flores spoke out for the first time about the controversy Monday afternoon after he was confronted by News 8 at a r"); document.write("eading event. Flores admitted he saw the e-mail and then forwarded it to the district’s administration office. \n\n\n\n\n\n"Those are a...\n
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Northwest ISD seeks better funding through lawsuit
\n(Fort Worth Star-Telegram © 01/31/2012) (Registration Required)\n
JUSTIN -- Unless state officials get a delay,");
document.write(" litigation challenging the way Texas funds its schools may go to trial in Austin in late October, a state finance expert told Northwest school district residents and staff recently.That means that State District Judge John Deitz of Austin could issue a ruling before the Legislature convenes in January in four lawsuits that likely will be consolidated, ...\n
Survey");
document.write(" shows average teacher salary at $48K per year
\n(Friendswood Journal © 01/31/2012)
Average teacher salaries are unchanged according to the 2011?12\nSalaries and Wages in Texas Public Schools Teacher Report recently\nreleased by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) and Texas\nAssociation of School Administrators (TASA). Nearly half (47\npercent) of reporting districts froze salaries for all employees\nfor this year.\n \n \n\nThe weighted average teacher salary i...\n
Texas gets a 'C' for school science courses
\n(Houston Chronicle © 01/31/2012) (Registration Required)\n
AUSTIN - Texas public school science courses \"pay lip service\" to critical content and largely ignore evolution in the middle grades, according to a national education foundation study that gives the state of Texas an overall \"C\" for science education.\n\nThe average grade for Texas");
document.write(" science curriculum standards by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in a national report card Tuesday represents a step up...\n
Lubbock, South Plains have lower teacher salaries than most parts of the state
\n(Lubbock Avalanche-Journal © 01/31/2012)
Teachers in Lubbock and the surrounding region have smaller paychecks, generally, than ");
document.write("their counterparts in most other parts of the state.\r\n\r\nRegion 17, based in Lubbock with 20 counties and 57 school districts under its wing, is No. 17 ? $44,026 a year ? for teacher salaries among the 20 education service centers in the state, a recent survey of the Texas Association of School Boards shows.\r\n\r\nT...\n
McAllen schools prepare for iPads, security depo");
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\n(McAllen Monitor © 01/31/2012)
McALLEN – School officials have begun informing parents of the new fees and policies associated with the district’s initiative to purchase nearly 27,000 mobile Apple devices for every McAllen student and teacher.\n\nThe school board has held a number of community forums, with a final one set for Tuesday, Feb. 7, to explain what students can and cannot do with the iPads and iPod Touch dev...\n
Student debt incites debate
\n(University Texas Daily Texan © 01/31/2012)
President Barack Obama proposed incentive-based federal aid in which more affordable colleges receive more aid. UT President William Powers Jr. said the plan is sound, but kinks need to be worked out to ensure consideration for the expense of maintaining a top research university like UT.\n\n\nObama spoke about higher education reform in his State of the Union address on Jan. 24 and d");
document.write("elved into more ...\n
UTeach helps meet demand for new science and math teachers
\n(University Texas Daily Texan © 01/31/2012)
The University’s UTeach program is partnering with the 100Kin10 movement to prepare up to 100,000 college graduates within 10 years to become secondary education math and science teachers.\n\n\nThe UTeach");
document.write(" Institute will work with other organizations in the 100Kin10 movement to respond to the demand for high school science and math teachers. According to the UTeach Institute’s website, the...\n
Austin school board expected to end financial emergency
\n(Austin American-Statesman © 01/30/2012) (Registration Require");
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Published: 6:47 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012\n\n\n\nThe Austin school board tonight is expected to withdraw the district's declaration of financial emergency, signaling that the district is at the end of the worst of its budget cuts and is on the road to recovery.\n\nUnder financial exigency, the district was able to cut more than 1,100 positions, including employees who were unde...\n
DMN Charities: North Texas Food Bank program fills kids? backpacks and bellies on weekends
\n(Dallas Morning News © 01/30/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Many children in North Texas rely on school meals to keep them from being hungry, but those meals can?t stave off the roar of an empty stomach on Saturday and Sunday.\r\n\r\nThat?s where the North Texas Food Bank?s Food 4 Kids program steps in, supplying as many as 10,000 children each week with backpacks of food they can take home with ");
document.write("them for the weekend.\r\n\r\n?They just can?t wait to open the bag up...\n
Local school boards discovering unexpected cuts to college readiness programs
\n(Dallas Morning News © 01/30/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Like aftershocks after a massive earthquake, the effects of funding cuts for Texas public schools");
document.write(" continue to rumble through local school districts.\r\n\r\nSome have been large and anticipated ? teacher layoffs and school closings. But some of the smaller impacts are catching school officials by surprise ? and could take a bite directly out of the wallets of teachers as well as students and their fami...\n
Texas AFL-CIO endorses Sadler for U.S. Senate
\n(Dallas Morning News © 01/30/2012) (Registration Required)\n
The state's premier labor group endorsed Paul Sadler for U.S. Senate on Sunday.\r\n\r\nThe biennial convention of the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Public Education put its weight behind Sadler, a Democrat, as the best choice to succeed retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican. The labor federation and its regional councils represent about 220,000 union members. Democrats haven't won statewide in...\n
Arlington's Viridian development to be served by newest H-E-B elementary school
\n(Fort Worth Star-Telegram © 01/30/2012) (Registration Required)\n
BEDFORD -- Nestled among upscale homes, parks and a town center in Arlington's upcoming Viridian development will be the newest Hurst-Euless-Bedford elementary school.H-E-B plans to purchase 7.5 acres from Dallas-based developer Huffines Communitie");
document.write("s to build the future school, although it is not known when it would open. That will depend on how quickly Viridian develops.\"Viridian is really unlike ...\n
Students show Arlington trustees that they're ahead of schools on technology
\n(Fort Worth Star-Telegram © 01/30/2012) (Registration Required)\n
ARLINGT");
document.write("ON -- Arlington school board trustees working on a first-ever long-range plan for the district learned that, no matter how hard they embrace technology, they're still dinosaurs compared with teenagers.The school board, seeking youthful ideas as it crafts a three-year strategic plan for budgeting and services, got an earful Friday from 18 students invited from the six high schools. It includ...\n
Time For Texas Teachers To (Politically) Smarten Up
\n(Lubbock Avalanche-Journal © 01/30/2012)
I began teaching in 1976. Unlike many of my colleagues who knew they always wanted to be a teacher, I never shared that feeling. I didn?t choose to be an educator; I like to think it chose me. Thirty-six years later, I regard my years as a teacher and counselor as an unplanned serendipitous opportunity that transformed my life and my thinking and a few thousand young lives in the process. I believ...\n
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