Archive for November, 2006
Legislature Knows Best
The next session of the Texas Legislature doesn’t begin until January but members can and are already filling bills. And thanks to the internet, you can now track all legislation online. Now my natural inclination would be to say that this is a good thing, open government, accountability and all. But sometimes, you have to [...]
Imagine That!
MySA.com: Metro | State: Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, a longtime member of the House Public Education Committee, is not optimistic lawmakers will significantly improve public education.”We’ll probably talk about facility funds, but when you talk about facility funding, you’re talking about money, and who’s going to put more money into public education?” Dutton said. MySA.com: [...]
If they build it, will the legislature care?
Project Will Tell High Schools How Well They’re Preparing Students for College Success: Texas educators will soon have a place to go for concrete answers to whether their students go on to college and how well they do there. Great. But then that means that the legislature didn’t have a clue as to high school [...]
More Feel good legislation
Proposed HB 122: 80(R) HB 122 – Introduced version – Bill Text: 1-7 Sec. 29.911. ” EDUCATION GO GET IT” WEEK. (a) To educate 1-8 middle school, junior high school, and high school students about 1-9 the importance of higher education , each school district and each 1-10 open-enrollment charter school offering any of those [...]
Floresville Teen is Working to Stop Genocide
Why wait for the adults? Wilson County News, Floresville, Texas: South Texas News, South Texas, Newspaper, Wilson, La Vernia, Poth, Sutherland Springs, Falls City, Stockdale, Eagle Creek, San Antonio, news, classifieds, Texas, Floresville news, La Vernia news, Stockdale news: “If I were a 14-year-old girl in Darfur, I’d want someone to have worried about me, [...]
Will 4 by 4 Solve Ysleta’s Problems?
El Paso Times – 90% of YISD students need remedial college math: Students in the 12th grade will take the Accuplacer test and administrators hope to improve on past performances.According to Ysleta records, more than 90 percent of the students taking the Accuplacer would need to take remedial classes in math before enrolling in college [...]
Dr. Phil Disses Homeschoolers on the biggest shopping day of the year
Friday, November 24th. Maybe he’s hoping people will be too busy shopping or with football games to watch the show? See previous post for more info. Dr. Phil.com – Shows This Week: Great School Debate Parents want the best for their children, but what’s the best way to educate them? Dr. Phil’s guests face off [...]
CC Texas Legislature, SBOE
Worth a read by some Texas Legislators and State Board of Education Members as well. An Open Letter to Margaret Spellings and Congress: “Human history,” said H. G. Wells, is “a race between education and catastrophe.” If we stay the course with No Child Left Behind, catastrophe is a sure bet. You’ll soon be deciding [...]
Alternatives to Texas 4 by 4
Here’s a guess at what Texas’ 4 by 4 will lead to. Lexington Herald-Leader | 11/20/2006 | Educator works to reduce need for remedial courses Joe Bagnoli graduated from Ashland Holy Family High School with a 3.7 grade-point average and with A’s in four years of college preparatory math courses — algebra I and II, [...]
4 by 4, a Solution in Search of a Problem
Looks like high school students are going to have to take more math and science in order to graduate. Now I’m not saying this is a bad thing, I just want to know why did the legislature require it? Having not really paid attention to House Bill 1 at the time, I’m assuming it has [...]