Education

Could Bills Allowing Teacher Furloughs and Pay Cuts Prompt Unionization?

by Abby Rapoport / Posted on Apr 26, 2011 | No Comments

Supporters of House Bill 400 have expended quite a bit of energy trying to explain that the legislation is supposed to protect Texas teachers. [...]

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Relative “Heroism”: The Senate’s Plan to Cut Just $4 Billion from Schools

by Abby Rapoport / Posted on Apr 21, 2011 | No Comments

You might have expected the mood to be awkward Wednesday in the Senate Finance Committee. After all, the lawmakers were trying cut $4 billion [...]

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Downsize My Education

by Tyler Stoddard Smith / Posted on Apr 18, 2011 | No Comments

Tyler Stoddard Smith takes a satirical stab at the budget crisis. Dear Sherman OfficeMax High School students, parents, teachers and staff, I know many [...]

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As Their Teachers Get Laid Off, Students Stage Protests

by Abby Rapoport / Posted on Apr 18, 2011 | No Comments

Katy Independent School District may not be the district facing the biggest round of layoffs in the state, but the pink slips slips hit [...]

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School Daze

by Abby Rapoport / Posted on Apr 12, 2011 | No Comments

It had the ingredients of a Tea Party rally—homemade signs, frustrated disaffection, thousands chanting slogans. But instead of messages lambasting government and the injustice [...]

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