Years of high-stakes testing, chronic under-funding and news stories about failing schools have made things difficult for Texas teachers.
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In time for Banned Books Week, Highland Park schools have banned seven books.
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Texas’ public technical colleges often promote their high job placement rates, but the real measure of their programs’ success is more complex.
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Idaho’s Athlos Academies marries real estate deals, upscale gyms and schools in a novel business plan funded by Texas taxpayers.
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When Dr. Walter Stroup showed that Texas’ standardized testing regime is flawed, the testing company struck back.
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The Legislature has been talking big in the Capitol about the state’s high expectations, while refusing to give schools the resources needed to meet those standards. In his school finance ruling last week, Judge John Dietz writes that the state had better put its money where its mouth is.
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Judge John Dietz rules Texas’ school finance system is unconstitutional, closing a years-long trial and sending the case on to the Texas Supreme Court.
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Lawmakers grilled Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams on the state’s stagnating test scores, suggesting the conversation hasn’t changed much since big reforms last year.
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A lengthy New York Times piece on Deion Sanders’ Prime Prep charter school in Dallas features troubling new allegations—but it may not be time to write the school’s obituary yet.
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More than five years after she first contacted Everest Institute, Erica Martinez has two diplomas, thousands of dollars in student loan debt and no career in her fields of study. She’s not alone among for-profit college students.
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