Susan Mills, a professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, is suing the university officials who fired her—apparently the first lawsuit to come out of the schools’ messy split that’s cost the jobs of nearly 100 faculty members.
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The creators of the Reasoning Mind math software have found great success getting funding from the State of Texas. Along with a slick product, they just so happen to have close friends in the highest ranks of big oil.
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Sen. Kel Seliger’s bill that could cut through the University of Texas System regents’ current power struggle with the Legislature was heard by the House Higher Education Committee early Wednesday morning.
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The Senate’s plan for charter school expansion went before members of the House, which has been a graveyard for similar plans in recent years.
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Dan Patrick’s reign over the Senate Education Committee has been a fascinating mix of empathy and cruelty, peaceful agreement and hostile shouting matches. In some ways, not much has changed since his days as a hot-tempered outsider.
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