Tag Archives: public schools
Years Into Austin’s Community Schools Experiment, National Policy Catches Up
Weeks’ neighborhood efforts, at Austin’s Webb Middle School and Reagan High School, have been more encouraging. For one thing, the schools are still open, y...Read More
Bad Credit: Are College Classes Working for High Schoolers?
The problem isn’t that high schoolers “aren’t ready for college,” says UTEP graduate student Eddie Nevarez, but rather that they get credit for courses ...Read More
Houston Schools Ban Suspensions in Early Grades
Thanks to some newly elected school board members, the district has ended its policy of allowing suspensions for kids in second grade and younger....Read More
State of Texas: Cops in the Classroom
Schools have been caught lately between two opposing trends: On one hand, juvenile crime rates are declining. On the other hand, school shootings have prompted ...Read More
TEA Takeover Uncertain for Struggling Border District
Thanks to an impending TEA district takeover, the state was in a position to end its legal troubles with Progreso ISD simply by replacing the school district’...Read More
A Year of Cops in the Classroom
This was a national conversation, a slice of the broader debate over police violence and systemic impunity, but it’s a Texas story, too — both for better an...Read More
Houston ISD Seeks Testing Truce with Opt-Out Parents
Houston ISD would be the first in Texas, at least among the largest districts, to pass a clear policy about opt-outs. The move wouldn’t be an endorsement of t...Read More
Houston ISD Could End Suspensions for Young Students
New report shows disparities in school discipline are more pronounced for kids in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
A vote by Houston ISD school board this month could make Texas’ largest school district the first with a ban on suspending young students. The proposal in Hou...Read More
Are Texas’ ‘Miracle’ High School Grad Rates Just a Magic Trick?
The Texas graduation rate is at an all-time high of 88 percent, and state officials are happy to take credit for their good work. But some policy-watchers doubt...Read More