Archive for January, 2007
You don’t have to identify yourself as a homeschooler
HSLDA | New Hampshire Legislation 2007—House Bill 51: Legalizing Adoption by Unmarried “Couples”: Action Requested: Please call and/or email members of the House Children and Family Law Committee (listed below) and give them this message: “Please vote against House Bill 51 to protect New Hampshire adoptive children by keeping the adoption process based on the [...]
No pass, no play, sorta
Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Texas/Southwest: In the past 12 years, some districts have created no-pass, no-play exemptions for classes ranging from calculus to cooking and auto repair. Others allow no exemptions.” I don’t think we ever would have envisioned (competing) schools being allowed to exempt different classes,” said former state [...]
Judson ISD Open Textbook Forum
District Calendar – 2/6/2007: Tuesday, February 6th, 2007, 5:30 – 7:30 pm Administrative Office Board Room and Conference Room, 8012 Shin Oak Drive, Live Oak, Texas
No, really?
MySA.com: State Government: At least half of all high school students in the state’s major cities are dropping out of school, creating a crisis that state leaders are not doing enough to address, some education experts say. This was true when I did my masters report in the 1980′s. This problem spans generations in terms [...]
The defenders of the First Amendment
Guess the Home School Legal Defense Association can continue fulfilling it’s homeschool mandate by making sure marriage is defined as between a man and a woman. HSLDA | S. 1—The Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007: Senate Bill 1 is a bipartisan bill and contains much-needed congressional reforms. However, Section 220 of S. 1 [...]
Non-partisan elections for the State Board of Education?
80(R) HB 603 – Introduced version – Bill Text: ???????(b)??Members of the board are elected at biennial general elections held in compliance with the Election Code. A candidate’s name for the board may appear on the ballot only as an independent candidate and Chapter 142, Election Code, applies to a candidate for the board. ???????SECTION?2.??Section [...]
HB 616: Equality in vanity license plates?
80(R) HB 616 – Introduced version – Bill Text: ???????Sec.?504.6155.??SUPPORT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS LICENSE PLATES. ?(a) ?The department shall issue specialty license plates that include the words “I support (insert name of county) County public schools.” ?The department shall design the license plates in consultation with the applicable county. ???????(b)??After deduction of the department’s administrative [...]
San Antonio Ice Storm
This has nothing to do with education except for my own. I know we were very lucky in that we suffered no lasting harm from the recent ice storm however, we did loose our tree. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not a very big deal. But we live in south Texas (as oppose [...]
HB 557: Holding Parents Accountable
80(R) HB 557 – Introduced version – Bill Text: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the failure of a parent to attend a public school parent-teacher conference; providing a criminal penalty. ???????BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: ???????SECTION?1.??Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 26.014 [...]
Why we have ineffective teachers–petty school board politicking?
The latest report on the importance of “teacher effectiveness” by the Governor’s Business Council has really got me thinking. Not about reading the report, I can’t imagine that it states anything new under the sun. But rather about why we seem to hold teachers up as the barrier to education reform in Texas. Any district [...]