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El Paso ISD School Board

by Patrick Michels

El Paso ISD-Style Cheating Concerns Spread to More Border School Districts

Wed, Aug 14, 2013 |

Former El Paso ISD Superintendent Lorenzo Garcia is still in federal prison, but the cheating scandal he began is still rippling through school districts on the...Read More

Gov. Rick Perry signs House Bill 5

by Patrick Michels

Perry Signs Bill Cutting School Testing, Ending Veto Speculation

Mon, Jun 10, 2013 |

House Bill 5, Perry said, "strikes an appropriate balance between our need for rigorous academic standards and the student's need for flexibility, a balance bet...Read More

Legislature Passes Major Testing Reform and Charter School Bills

by Patrick Michels

Leave a comment | Sun, May 26, 2013

Late on the session's next-to-last day, the House passed the session's two biggest education bills, expanding charter schools and cutting high school testing....Read More

Committee Considers Reducing Elementary, Middle School Testing

Leave a comment | Tue, May 14, 2013

The Senate Education Committee took up a proposal to eliminate the STAAR writing test for 4th and 7th graders as well. Lawmakers also hinted at an interim study...Read More

Leticia Van de Putte

Senate Passes Bill Cutting High School Tests, Creating New Diploma Paths

Mon, May 6, 2013 |

After a delay Friday, the Senate finally passed House Bill 5, the session's big education bill limiting state testing in high school and altering high school gr...Read More

Dan Patrick Defends Plan to Scale Back Testing

by Patrick Michels

2 Comments | Tue, Apr 16, 2013

After getting overwhelming approval from the House—and then sitting for a few weeks—a bill bringing big changes to Texas' testing and graduation requirement...Read More

House Approves Major Bill Cutting Testing, Adding Career Focus to Degree Plans

Wed, Mar 27, 2013 |

After hearing more than 100 amendments, only Rep. Mark Strama (Austin-D) and Rep. Naomi Gonzalez (El Paso-D) voted against HB 5. ...Read More

by Patrick Michels

Debate on School Testing Bill Heats Up Over College Readiness

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Tue, Mar 26, 2013 |

After a lengthy debate, lawmakers may have settled the most divisive question facing them in today's school testing bill debate: whether high school students sh...Read More

Deshotel Bill Would Scrap Testing As Graduation Requirement

Leave a comment | Wed, Mar 13, 2013

House Bill 1423 would lower the stakes of the STAAR test, by removing the requirement, on the books since 1994, that students pass state exams to graduate. Desh...Read More

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