Education
Dan Patrick Accuses Joe Straus of Ponzi Scheme Ahead of Special Session
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
UTSA Students Fight for Child Care at Downtown Campus
Campus officials say they don't have room for child care facilities at UT-San Antonio's downtown campus, but grad students aren't taking no for an answer....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
Texas to Offer GED Alternatives After Test Costs Triple
The State Board of Education voted to implement two new GED alternatives in the spirit of "free enterprise," after a for-profit company tripled GED costs....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
Denial of Service
Among its dozens of accountability measures for school districts — including test scores and other data points — the Texas Education Agency (TEA) includes a...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