Texas SBOE member Ken Mercer is at the forefront of a national campaign to brand the new Advanced Placement U.S. history exam as dangerously un-American.
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Latino groups are uniting around a policy agenda for the next Lege session, backed by a survey that shows school finance and teacher preparation are the community’s biggest needs.
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Ten applicants pitched Texas regulators this week on the charter schools they hope to open. Here are their plans, with a few notes on each.
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Despite the freak-out over undocumented Central American children stealing desks from Texas kids, schools say they’re prepared for next school year.
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At a state board meeting Wednesday, Ed Commissioner Michael Williams defended letting the Great Hearts charter school expand into Dallas, over state board members’ vote to block the school.
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Illinois’ attorney general sued a Texas firm that promises student loan repayment help, claiming it charged for services the government offers for free.
Read full post This week, State Board of Education members will confront Education Commissioner Michael Williams about his decision to override their veto of an Arizona charter school with strong political backing.
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School social worker Sharon Bonilla says BASIS San Antonio ignored her daughter’s special education plan, then tried to hold her back, a complaint that echoes long-running complants about charter schools’ special ed programs.
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The potential firing of UT-Austin President Bill Powers marks another success for the machine that’s been chewing through Texas politics and institutions.
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Students from troubled Beaumont ISD have been in Austin this week, pleading to save art and music teacher jobs slated for elimination to make up the district’s $25 million shortfall.
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