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Joe Smith: Super Zips - December 12 - 13. 2013
I will be in San Antonio at the TAMS conference the 12th and 13th, see you Monday. - js -
Zip codes identify large swaths of territories inhabited by heterogeneous groups of people of varying income and education attainment. However, some of these areas transition quickly to be more homogeneous populations of high incomes and level of education; they are called super zips.
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David Rains, Director of Operations, Mount Vernon ISD, has been named New Super of Dime Box ISD.
Michelle Barrow, Newton ISD Assistant Superintendent, has been named New Super of Newton ISD.
Dec 12, 2013, 09:00
News App: The 2014 Election Brackets
These brackets — borrowed without apology from college basketball's March Madness brackets
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:46
TEA Accepting Comments to 19 TAC Chapter 105, Foundation School Program, Subchapters A and B
Today, the Texas Education Agency announced that Title 19 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 105, Foundation School Program, Subchapter A. Definitions, and Subchapter B. Use of State Funds, are currently under the four-year rule review cycle for all state agency rules. "The rule review is designed to ensure that 'the reason for adopting or readopting the rule continues to exist,"' in accordance with Texas Government Code, Section 2001.039.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:46
Texas Lone Star magazine:
TASB:The following link is to the December edition of TASB’s Texas Lone Star magazine:
Dec 12, 2013, 08:44
New From TEA
New! TEA Correspondence Web Page - Subscribe
New! Maximum Entitlements and 2012-2013 Carryover
Required Physical Fitness Assessment
Fingerprinting Requirement: Applicable to All Grantees
2013-2014 Performance-Based Monitoring Intervention Staging
New! Third-Party Authorization to Submit Foundation School Program (FSP) System Data through Texas Education Agency Secure Environment (TEASE)
Submitting the Annual Financial and Compliance Report and Data Feed
Statutory Requirements Prohibiting the Adoption or Use of Common Core
Accommodations Available on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic
Important Correspondence! Update to Plan for IDEA-B Maintenance of Effort Determinations
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:43
2014 Elections: Three Contested Primaries in Texas SBOE Elections
The deadline for filing to run for state office in Texas in 2014 was last Friday. Six of seven incumbents are seeking re-election to the Texas State Board of Education, and two of them face opposition in their party primaries. A third contested primary is for a seat in which the incumbent is not seeking re-election. All of the seats will be contested on the November general election ballot.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:37
Austin: AISD: Carstarphen on the Hot Seat
Austin Independent School District trustees discussed the future of Superintendent Meria Carstarphen at the Dec. 9 board meeting. However, the talk was all behind closed doors, and the public will have to wait until the Dec. 16 meeting to find out her future.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:37
You can make choices about your child’s school
Caring parents want the best education for their children, and that means making sure their school is meeting the needs and aspirations of the family, knowing how to work to improve that school, or making the choice to seek alternatives that might better suit your needs.The hard part is knowing the quality of your local school or finding the school that is a perfect fit.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:37
For elementary students, not too early to consider college
The Brownsville Independent School District starts them out early, even teaching fifth-graders how to get into college and pay for it. While no one is actually teaching “College Prep 101,” Pilar Janis, BISD lead higher education counselor K-12, is taking an important message about college entrance to students across the district, beginning with fifth-graders.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:36
Trustees get AEIS status report, mull open-campus lunch policy
The Fredericksburg Independent School District board of trustees held a regular meeting Monday, Dec. 9 at the central administration building and discussed the Fredericksburg Middle School, open campus, effluent water and the school’s academic performance report.
Today at 6:30 p.m., the trustees will hold a closed session to discuss superintendent applicants and then have an open meeting to select a finalist.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:35
Waxahachie: WISD encourages technology in the classroom
The Waxahachie ISD teachers will work together and with students to learn how to collaborate and integrate technology for a new district-wide initiative. The district will host a staff workday Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 as a training day for its “iNation: Where 21st Century Learning Begins” initiative. “This will be a day for our teachers to collaborate and learn together,” Coordinator of Instructional Technology Chealsie Sanchez said.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:34
Amid All the Good Things Going On in HISD, Why Is It So Many of Our Kids Still Can't Read?
One kid is a 17-year-old senior getting ready to go on to college who says he can't read even though he's passed all his state tests. Now in his final year of high school, he's playing a gigantic game of catch-up because suddenly it has hit him that he may not be able to skate by in college.
"I ain't going to lie to you. I can't read at all," says Tony (not his real name). "I hate stories that's real long. I panic on long stories. I'm not going to lie. I never liked reading." To get through the book he had to read for English class, Tony read it aloud to his teacher, who coached him through it.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:32
How ALEC Serves As A 'Dating Service' For Politicians And Corporations
Read! A batch of internal documents recently leaked to The Guardian has revealed new insights into the goals and finances of the secretive group called ALEC. The American Legislative Exchange Council is a group that brings together state legislators and representatives of corporations. Together, they develop model bills that lawmakers introduce and try to pass in their state legislatures. Through these model bills, ALEC has worked to privatize public education, cut taxes, reduce public employee compensation, oppose Obamacare and resist state regulations to reduce global warming gas emissions.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:32
The Most Important Post of the Day: The Rightwing Assault on the Public Sector
The Guardian describes the State Policy Network as a sister organization to the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC. “SPN’s president, Tracie Sharp, told theGuardian that ‘as a pro-freedom network of thinktanks, we focus on issues like workplace freedom, education reform, and individual choice in healthcare: backbone issues of a free people and a free society.’”
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:32
Education Emerging As Issue In Abbott-Davis Race
Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and Democratic state Senator Wendy Davis continued trading barbs Wednesday over public schools, despite neither yet unveiling an education platform — signaling a potentially more intense education debate ahead than in past gubernatorial elections.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:31
Insight - Sweden rethinks pioneering school reforms, private equity under fire
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - When one of the biggest private education firms in Sweden went bankrupt earlier this year, it left 11,000 students in the lurch and made Stockholm rethink its pioneering market reform of the state schools system. School shutdowns and deteriorating results have taken the shine off an education model admired and emulated around the world, in Britain in particular. "I think we have had too much blind faith in that more private schools would guarantee greater educational quality," said Tomas Tobé, head of the parliament's education committee and spokesman on education for the ruling Moderate party.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:31
SPOTLIGHT: Textbook revisions in Texas bring concern
History, Winston Churchill famously said, is written by the victors. Don McLeroy no doubt agrees.
McLeroy is a dentist from Bryan, Texas, a self-described Christian fundamentalist, and an outgoing member of state school board of education. Over the past year, McLeroy and his allies formed a powerful bloc on the 15-member elected board and pushed through controversial revisions to the statewide social studies curriculum.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:31
Wall Street’s Plans for the Future of K-12 Education
When Frank Bruni wrote a column saying that American students are too “coddled,” he added a gratuitous swipe at “leftwing paranoiacs” who ”imagine some conspiracy to ultimately privatize education and create a new frontier of profits for money-mad plutocrats.”
Well, here is another point of view, called “Wall Street is Designing the Future of Public Education.” It appears on Salon.com.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:31
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:30
Feds raid home of La Joya ISD school board member
Authorities are remaining tight-lipped after federal agents raided the home of a La Joya Independent School District board member.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:28
Fort Bend ISD Board honored with Excellence in Literacy Award
The Texas Woman’s University Reading Recovery/Descubriendo la Lectura team honored the past and present Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees with the 2013 Advocate for Excellence in Literacy Award, in recognition of their vision and commitment to ensure that all children in Fort Bend ISD have the opportunity to become successful learners.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:28
Board of Education to Consider Policy Update Banning Offensive Mascots
Houston Independent School District Superintendent Terry Grier on Thursday will recommend the Board of Education take the first steps in approving a policy update that would prohibit offensive or culturally insensitive mascots. The proposed policy would affect four HISD high schools — Lamar High School Redskins, Westbury High School Rebels, Hamilton Middle School Indians and Welch Middle School Warriors. The measure must be approved on Thursday and then again in January after its second reading.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:27
Spradlin resigns from Tyler ISD` Board of Trustees
TYLER, TEXAS (TYLER ISD) — Board of Trustees Representative for Single Member District 5, Brad Spradlin, has announced his resignation from the Tyler ISD School Board effective December 16, 2013.
“With an honored and grateful heart, I am resigning my position as Single Member District 5 Board of Trustees member of the Tyler Independent School District,” Mr. Spradlin said. “The desire for greater focus and balance on family and business responsibilities has led me to this decision
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:27
Two Texas Educators Charged In Alabama Drug Case
Two Houston ISD administrators facing felony drug charges in Alabama after a traffic stop are no longer with the district. Prosecutors in Mobile, Ala., say Dana Bost and Ronald Rodriguez appeared at a preliminary hearing Monday on drug possession counts.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:25
Hamshire-Fannett ISD student charged with terroristic threat
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office transported a 15-year-old girl to the Minnie Rogers Juvenile Detention Center for a 'hit list' found at Hamshire-Fannett High School.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:23
The 10 school districts with the most charter school students
A new report on charter schools says that charter school enrollment around the country has grown 80 percent over the past five years — but represents only 5 percent of total public school enrollment (a statistic that may seem surprising given all of the attention that school reformers give to charters).
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:23
Plano West teacher is finalist for Grammy educator award
Jo Wallace-Abbie has built a powerhouse orchestra program at Plano West Senior High that has the Grammys’ attention for a second time. Last week the Grammy Foundation announced Wallace-Abbie is one of 10 finalists for its first Music Educator Award. She was selected from among 30,000 nominations nationwide, and Plano West will receive $1,000.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:20
Richardson ISD seeks input with parent survey
The Richardson ISD is encouraging parents and guardians to participate in a Parent Climate Survey. The survey asks general questions about schools and also about specific district programs such as dyslexia, special education and gifted/talented.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:16
Crowley: The choice of the future rests with us
I'm so proud to be a part of Crowley ISD. As a young Boy Scout, I earned the hiking merit badge hiking from southwest Fort Worth to Crowley several times on what were then old farm roads. As a child, my family would come to Haley's Meat Market in Crowley on Saturday mornings to stock up for the week. I've never lived any further away from the city of Crowley than just a few blocks north of I-20/820.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:15
Feds say staff shortage prevents EPISD civil rights investigation
The Department of Education now says it will not pursue potential civil rights violations related to cheating at El Paso Independent School District because of a lack of resources. In the last year, the department's Office of Civil Rights has received nearly 10,000 complaints while staffing levels are at their lowest level since the Department of Education was created more than 20 years ago, spokeswoman Dorie Nolt said.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:15
Lewisville ISD approves new rules for class rankings
The Lewisville ISD board approved new rules Monday governing eligibility for valedictorian and salutatorian honors. Previously, students only had to be enrolled in the same high school for the final two consecutive semesters to be eligible for the top class rankings. Now students must be enrolled for four consecutive semesters before graduation.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:15
Midland: Parents Speak Out at TEA Meeting for MISD’s Bilingual/ESL Programs 12/11/13
The Texas Education Agency is keeping a close eye on Midland Independent School District’s English as a second language and bilingual programs because of the program’s history of academically unacceptable test scores.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:15
Mount Pleasant ISD enrollment declines
The number of Mount Pleasant ISD students has continued “a steady decline,” district Chief Financial Officer Stacie Thompson reported to trustees Monday.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:12
Athens: At least 9 hurt in East Texas school bus collision
Nine elementary school students have received hospital treatment after a school bus struck another from behind in a small East Texas town.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:10
Brownwood ISD School Board Approves Installation of New Turf at Gordon Wood Stadium
The Brownwood ISD school board unanimously approved the replacement of turf at Gordon Wood Stadium which is estimated to be completed in January.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:10
Children involved in Athens bus wreck released from hospital
Nine children were transported to East Texas Medical Center in Athens after two Athens Independent School District buses were involved in an accident on Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses say one bus rear-ended the other on Palestine Street near the bus barn in Athens. Bus 14 hit bus 13 before going off the road and hitting three empty cars sitting in the parking lot of Eastern Texas Pathology Labs. Bus 14 then traveled out of that parking area and down the road roughly 500 more feet before coming to a rest.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:10
Greenwood ISD Makes Changes to Bond
Greenwood ISD has changed up their plans for their school bond. At Monday night's meeting, the board approved a new middle school plan.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:10
Henderson school board mulls options for auditorium
The Henderson ISD school board is considering options to renovate or replace the district’s auditorium. It would cost about $1.6 million to renovate the existing auditorium, board members learned during a Tuesday meeting. Previous estimates have put the cost at building a new auditorium at about $7.5 million. Superintendent Keith Boles said the board should take a look at facility needs across the district and suggested they plan a special meeting in early spring to focus on that topic.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:10
Here's What 13 Famous CEOs Looked Like In High School
Even the world's most famous leaders had to start somewhere.
In high school, many of today's top CEOs were athletes. Others were known for being nerdy and incredibly bright. Not surprisingly, most were considered hard workers and many were already laying the foundations for their future businesses.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:10
One child injured critically, eight other Athens ISD students admitted to hospital after 2 buses crash
Nine children were injured Wednesday in an accident involving two school buses. Rebecca Berkley, public information officer with East Texas Medical Center, said nine Athens ISD children were admitted into their Athens facility, 200 South Palestine St.
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Dec 12, 2013, 08:10
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