News Briefs
The Dallas school district has rehired 57 teachers who had been among the hundreds laid off last month to avoid a projected $84 million budget deficit.
November 4, 2008
Pascal D. Forgione Jr., the superintendent of the Austin Independent School District in Texas, has won the Richard R. Green Award for outstanding school district leadership.
November 4, 2008
Texas lawmakers last year overwhelmingly approved legislation to strengthen dropout-prevention efforts. But a pilot program to help people age 25 and under who have quit school earn a diploma has since come under fire.
November 3, 2008
The Dallas schools superintendent has announced an independent legal review of the district’s investigation into grade-changing allegations for basketball players at South Oak Cliff High School.
October 28, 2008
As Roman Catholic schools and parishes across the Gulf Coast region struggle to recover from Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, the National Catholic Educational Association has launched a fundraising campaign to help out.
October 7, 2008
A first draft of new Texas state science standards removes language that says students should understand the “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories and hypotheses in biology.
September 30, 2008
A formula that all high schools would have to use to calculate GPAs is encountering strong resistance from educators who fear it could discourage teenagers from taking challenging courses.
September 29, 2008
Dozens of Texas school districts are likely to be closed indefinitely as they struggle to recover from Hurricane Ike, which devastated the Gulf Coast and caused disruption into the Midwest.
September 23, 2008
Some Texas districts expect to be closed all week as officials seek to assess damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
September 16, 2008
A boom in providers that offer alternative routes to teacher credentials in Texas has sparked a move by the state to set higher standards for preparation programs.
September 12, 2008
Texas officials say that they are likely to appeal a federal court order telling the state it must, by the 2009-10 school year, revamp programs for English-language learners.
August 12, 2008
Deadlines are set for next year to improve programs for English-language learners, particularly at the secondary school level, but state officials say they will appeal.
July 29, 2008
The process has been made nettlesome at times, Texas educators and some state board members say, because of a sharp ideological divide on the 15-member state school board.
May 16, 2008
The 437 children taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch compound in Eldorado, Texas, are being scattered to group homes and boys’ and girls’ ranches across the state.
May 1, 2008
The state's Higher Education Coordinating Board unanimously rejected a proposal by the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research that it be allowed to offer a Bible-based online master’s degree program to science teachers.
May 1, 2008
