Enrollment and Services for Students from Hurricane Disaster Areas
Information regarding efforts the agency is making to assist school districts and charter schools in serving students who may have relocated in Texas following Hurricane Ike.

State Board of Education meeting cancelled
The State Board of Education meeting scheduled for Sept. 17-19 has been cancelled.

Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines
The final revised prekindergarten guidelines are now available, along with a web-based professional development tool which introduces educators to the new guidelines. The guidelines remain voluntary for district use and will guide publishers in revising prekindergarten instructional materials in the future.

Report on Implementation of HB 2237
In compliance with HB 2237, Section 39.365(b), the Texas Education Agency has prepared this report on the implementation of various components of HB 2237, an act relating to grants and programs for dropout prevention, high school success, and college and workforce readiness in public schools.

New leaders announced at Texas Education Agency
Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott announced today that Dr. Raymond F. Glynn has been appointed Deputy Commissioner for School District Leadership and Educator Quality, a position he has held on an acting basis since July 2007.

TEA’s hurricane website provides information to school employees, parents
The Texas Education Agency recently reactivated its hurricane website. Information about school closings, as well as operational information for school districts, is available at: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/hurricane/.

Twenty-six Texas public schools named NCLB- Blue Ribbon Schools
Twenty-six Texas public schools were today named No Child Left Behind – Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education.

Six educators named Teacher of the Year finalists
Six top educators, with a combined 125 years of teaching experience, have been chosen as finalists in the Texas Teacher of the Year program, Commissioner of Education Robert Scott announced today.

TEA Hurricane Web Site Now Available
TEA has activated its Hurricane Web Site in order to bring Texas schools and citizens important information.

Number of Texas students taking SAT climbs; results show key to higher scores is preparation
The road to college is broadening in Texas as significantly more minority students took the SAT in 2008. Forty-two percent of the Texas test-takers said they would be the first in their families to attend college.

Online teacher certification testing takes off in Texas
The popularity of online teacher certification testing in Texas is exploding with more than 50,000 tests being taken via the Internet in the past year, according to the State Board for Educator Certification...

TEA launches new web portals
The Texas Education Agency’s website has taken the first step toward providing information through a system of web portals. The general public now has access to seven new web portals, which offer the agency’s wealth of content in categories defined by audiences and users. The portals provide information for educators, superintendents, parents, students and the news media. A sixth portal will be home to the agency’s databases of information and the seventh portal will serve ultimately as the home page once a staged conversion to the new portal system is complete. The switch to the portal system was prompted by a desire to make the TEA website more user-friendly for all audiences. To access the new web portals, please use the TEA Portal link located in center navigation above.