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Jim Rummage, Superintendent of Banquete ISD, has been named New Super of Crane ISD.
Jaime Velasco, Rosebud-Lott ISD Asst. Super, has been named New Super of Italy ISD.
Ken Rosser, Borger HS Principal, has been named New Super of Hart ISD.
Xavier DeLaTorre, Santa Clara Co. Superintendent, has been named New Super of Ysleta ISD.
Mar 11, 2014, 09:00
Houston: HISD Food Services celebrates National Nutrition Month
HISD’s Food Services Department is celebrating National Nutrition Month throughout March. National Nutrition Month is a nutrition and education information campaign celebrated annually in March by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:46
The House Public Education Committee will meet on Wednesday, March 26
Agenda: Moniter the implementation of HB5 and Review the scope and breadth of the current TEKS. AGENDA Live Broadcast
Mar 11, 2014, 08:46
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Important Correspondence! Update to Plan for IDEA-B Maintenance of Effort Determinations
Mar 11, 2014, 08:43
Beaumont: Justin Hinton's Report On TEA Investigation Of BISD
Copy of full TEA Report! BEAUMONT - KFDM News has obtained a copy of a Texas Education Agency preliminary report into Beaumont ISD financial compliance. The report is critical of the district in a number of areas.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:38
Dallas ISD trustee Mike Morath clarifies role in home-rule push
Dallas ISD trustee Mike Morath released a lengthy statement Monday explaining his involvement with a group pushing for DISD to become a home-rule charter district.
Morath insisted he has no active role in the group, Support Our Public Schools. However, he said he encouraged several of the group’s board members to start it after he alerted them to the 1995 Texas law.
“I do not serve on the board of Support Our Public Schools, and as a result, I have nothing to do with the decisions they make,” Morath said. “But I am an avid supporter of their organization.”
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:38
What Dallas ISD might look like with home-rule: Support Our Public Schools offering more thoughts
The initial revelation that a committee has been working to turn Dallas ISD into pretty much the legal equivalent of a multi-campus open-enrollment charter school blew up a couple of weeks ago without many details.
Since then, members of the Support Our Public Schools board have been explaining why they think the never-before-used “home-rule” provision in the Texas education code should be invoked. (Here’s a piece by the DMN’s Tawnell D. Hobbs and Matthew Haag that will get you up to speed, if you missed it.)
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:37
Early College High Schools Proliferate
Last Monday, Anabel Garza received news that a student was out sick. She wasn’t convinced. She called the boy’s mom and said, “I’m going to come check how sick he is.” She got in her car, drove to his house and bought him back to school.
“We set the standards so high that even if they don’t reach them, they get much further than if we hadn’t set those goals,” said Garza, the principal at Austin’s Reagan Early College High School.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:36
New director brings varied experience to Region III Education Service Center
The blue in her eyes match the water near where Patty Shafer used to call home. The former Port Lavaca resident began her post as Region III Education Service Center's new executive director in February. Since her time spent by the bay, Shafer has lived in several towns across the state serving as superintendent for school districts and as the deputy director for the Region IV Education Service Center in Houston.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:35
Patrick And Dewhurst Both Stick By Claims Found To Be False Or Incomplete
As lieutenant governor candidates David Dewhurst and Dan Patrick head into a May 27 runoff election, both are standing behind comments they made last fall, even though a fact-checking group has decided some of what they said is false or misleading.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:33
Student free speech prevails, as Supreme Court refuses 'boobies' bracelet case
School officials had asked the high court to take up the case and reverse the ruling to allow administrators more leeway to censor messages worn by students at school. The high court turned aside the appeal without comment.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:33
TEA Announces Modifications to School FIRST Web Site Navigation
Today, the Texas Education Agency announced modifications have been made to the School Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (School FIRST) web site that will improve navigation to the School FIRST report(s) for the rating year(s) of interest. In the future, School FIRST rating reports will be accessed according to the school year that the ratings were issued rather than the year for which the data were drawn (for example, to access final School FIRST ratings to be issued on or about August 2014, rating year 2013-2014 will be selected on the TEA School FIRST web site).
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:33
Austin snubs extra algebra test for some eighth-graders, following Texas Education Agency’s lead
The Austin school district is one of the first in Texas to say publicly it will risk federal penalties by giving certain eighth-graders just one standardized math exam this spring, hewing to a recommendation last week from the state education agency.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:32
CAD must fix commercial value method
Recent history suggests it's time for the Central Appraisal District to change the way it values large, unique commercial properties.
A lawsuit by Western Refining is added impetus for change.
The Central Appraisal District is required by law to set property values for everything from homes to major industrial properties. Taxing entities like the city, county and school district then use the valuation to help set property tax rates.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:32
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:30
Cleburne: CISD super allegedly resigns
Cleburne ISD Superintendent Tim Miller reportedly resigned at last nights board meeting. Miller came to the district from San Antonio Northeast ISD in August 2009 when CISD hired him as assistant superintendent for education programs. In August 2010, he was named interim superintendent when former superintendent Ronny Beard resigned after two years.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:29
Connally ISD to name new superintendent
Connally Independent School District's interim superintendent, Wesley Holt, is expected to be formally offered the permanent position at a board of trustees meeting Friday. Holt took over as interim superintendent in July following the retirement of Frances Penland. He was named the lone finalist for the position earlier this month. On Friday, the board will hold a special meeting to vote whether to offer him a contract.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:29
Sealy ISD names lone finalist for superintendent
The Sealy Independent School District Board of Trustees named Sheryl Moore, the current executive director of secondary education in the Montgomery ISD, as the lone finalist for superintendent. Moore, 51, was announced as the finalist during a special meeting of the SISD board on Friday. “I am honored by the opportunity to serve Sealy,” she said in a press release. “I look forward to living and working in this great community.”
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:29
LULAC to ask for superintendent's resignation
The Beaumont chapter of a Hispanic organization plans to ask Beaumont I.S.D.'s Superintendent Dr. Timothy Chargois to step down. The League of United Latin American Citizens is calling for change in the district and believe it starts at the top.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:25
13 ways high-stakes standardized tests hurt students
It’s time for March Madness — not the famous college basketball tournament but the start of high-stakes standardized testing season in many school districts around the country. I’ve published many posts on how standardized test scores are inappropriately used to evaluate students, educators and schools, but there are plenty of other costs to students as well. Here are 13 ways that high-stakes standardized testing harms students, from the Yinzercation blog by Jessie B. Ramey.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:20
Classmates Accused of Killing Wylie Teen
Two juveniles in the Collin County community of Wylie went before a judge Monday, a day after being accused of choking and killing 17-year-old Wylie East High School senior Ivan Mejia over the weekend.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:20
Texas Teens Tell Police ‘We Are Burying a Body’
A pair of Texas teenagers stunned police who stopped them as they ran out of a wooded area by telling the cops they were “burying a body,” police said.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:20
The Arguments Against Dallas ISD's Home-Rule Charter Push Are All Pretty Terrible
The folks behind Support Our Schools, the group pushing to free Dallas ISD from many state regulations by turning it into a home-rule district, have finally gotten around to explaining themselves.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:20
Kingsville ISD Board Member Rudy Macareno Sentenced
The punishment phase in the trial of Kingsville Independent School District board member Rudy Macareno wrapped up shortly after noon Friday.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:18
Fort Bend: Three races, two incumbents, nine challengers in FBISD school board election
The candidates’ field in the 2014 election for Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees should be a crowded one this May, with Position 4 Trustee Bruce Albright and Position 5 Trustee Dr. Patsy Taylor both facing multiple challengers to their second terms on the BOT, along with several contenders in the running for the outgoing Susan Hohnbaum’s Position 1 trusteeship.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:15
Dallas ISD trustee Mike Morath explains his role in home-rule group
Dallas ISD trustee Mike Morath released a lengthy statement Monday explaining his involvement with Support Our Public Schools amid questions about his role in the group.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:14
Wait! Dallas ISD has made progress
Mike Morath said the “average college readiness in 1996 was 7.0 percent; in 2012 it was 8.1 percent.” He declared this to represent “almost no progress for an entire generation.”
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:14
Dallas ISD principals say 'Imagine 2020' improvements are paying off
The district’s Imagine 2020 initiative began this school year at Pinkston, Lincoln and Madison high schools and campuses that feed into them. Under the plan, teachers receive more hands-on instruction. More staffers are on campus. Students get in-house tutoring. And there’s a bigger focus on community involvement and helping the neediest kids.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:10
Former Seguin teacher accused of relationship with student
A former Seguin High School teacher was arrested Sunday on charges she had an improper relationship with a 17-year-old student. The Seguin Independent School District said Shannon Spradlin, who turned 31-years-old Wednesday, was placed on administrative leave two weeks ago when the allegations first surfaced. Spradlin resigned a short time after that.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:10
My High School No Longer Holds Dances Because Students Would Rather Stay Home And Text Each Other
Your high school may have had different names for them, but you probably recognize what they are: school dances. A staple of American culture, the dramatic climax of countless high-school movies, and the background of so many of teenage memories.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:10
New York: School bus flips over after crash; 9 injured
A school bus carrying children flipped over when it collided with a taxi cab in New York City, leaving nine people injured, authorities said. The bus was carrying six children between ages 10 and 12 in Brooklyn. They suffered minor injuries and were hospitalized for observation, according to Lt. Paul Ng of the New York Police Department.
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:05
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Mar 11, 2014, 08:00
Comcast internet grant connects Pasadena ISD to online learning opportunities
In an effort to extend a helping hand to Pasadena ISD families, Comcast awarded $25,000 in grants to community partners on behalf of the district for being selected as a high performing Internet Essentials School System. The grant will extend the use of Internet access beyond classrooms and into the homes of students and their families.
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Mar 11, 2014, 07:57
Fix the process for closing schools
One month ago, Houston Independent School District officials unexpectedly announced plans to close five schools. Last week, HISD board President Juliet Stipeche took three of these schools off the closure list. On Thursday, the school board must vote against shuttering the two remaining schools. While we thank the board for reconsidering the three schools, we still have concerns about the process for handling proposed closures.
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Mar 11, 2014, 07:57
SAT changes to help level admissions
The role of the SAT depends on where you sit in the admissions process. For parents and high school students, it is an arduous summit that must be crested to enter the college of their choice. For college administrators, the SAT and its cousin the ACT are their best hope at assessing prospective students’ chances of success based on a national norm.
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Mar 11, 2014, 07:56
Texas school districts balk at state requirement for $100 calculator over $15 app
Texas school districts eager to invest in iPads and other mobile devices for their students say a new state rule requiring graphing calculators for eighth-grade test-takers could hold back their technology plans. The calculators cost more than $100 a piece; a virtually identical application available for the devices runs about $15.
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Mar 11, 2014, 07:55
Brooks County ISD Bus Involved in Accident on FM 2191
A Brooks County Independent School District bus was involved in a major traffic accident at around 7:15 a.m. Friday along FM 2191 near County Road 215.
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Mar 11, 2014, 07:50
Brownsboro ISD considers adding soccer
Brownsboro ISD is considering adding soccer to its sports lineup. Superintendent Dr. Chris Moran is scheduled to address the school board on March 17 about the possibility.
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Mar 11, 2014, 07:50
Houston ISD meetings detail new graduation requirements
The push to inform the Class of 2018 about sweeping changes in Texas high school graduation requirements is under way in Houston ISD.
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Mar 11, 2014, 07:50
Nonprofit urges schools to boost breakfast meal participation to curb child hunger
More Texas students are eating breakfast at school, but state anti-hunger advocates say school districts still have significant room for improvement in increasing breakfast participation rates. During the 2012-13 school year, about 60.1 percent of Texas public students who were eligible for free and reduced-price meals participated in their school’s breakfast program, according to a School Breakfast Report Card released this week by the Texas Hunger Initiative, which is based at Baylor University’s School of Social Work.
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Mar 11, 2014, 07:48
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