Archive for February, 2007
Top 10 Percent–we meant income, not grades
People are upset since 72% of the admissions at UT Austin have been under the top ten percent law forcing many students to attend places like UT San Antonio instead. Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Texas/Southwest: But Democratic Sens. Royce West of Dallas and Rodney Ellis of Houston said they remain [...]
No Radio Frequency Identification in Schools?
One attempt to slow the growth of big brother in society. 80(R) HB 1925 – Introduced version – Bill Text: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the transmission of information regarding public school students through the use of radio frequency identification technology. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF [...]
Being a legal adult isn’t enough to get out of compulsory attendance
80(R) HB 566 – Introduced version – Bill Text: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to compulsory school attendance for students who are at least 18 years of age.BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 25.085(e), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (e) A [...]
Best Practices?
What kind of employer would prevent workers from asking questions about assignments? What kind of employer would put a water cooler in each cubicle to keep employees from getting up and potentially congregating around the water cooler? What kind of employer would muffle chair legs with tennis balls to keep them from making noise? What [...]
Community Colleges: To go or not to go
College has been popping up in my life lately. My son would be a freshman in high school so I’ve been thinking about things like transcripts, dual credit, and how the heck we’re going to pay for it. Since he can take dual credit classes for free, I would like for him to try a [...]
Can race matter only some of the time?
Bush’s double standard on race in schools | csmonitor.com: Not surprisingly, the Bush administration is supporting the plaintiffs’ arguments that the use of such racial criteria is unconstitutional. It was no doubt delighted to hear Justice Anthony Kennedy say during oral arguments that “characterizing each student by reason of the color of his or her [...]
So who would work for Apple?
What kind of person could you get to make broad, sweeping statements on topics about which he’s obviously seriously uninformed? Steve Jobs. Apple CEO Jobs attacks teacher unions | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle: AUSTIN — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public [...]
Why does it take a law….
80(R) SB 648 – Introduced version – Bill Text: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to information for teachers posted on the Texas Education Agency’s Internet website. ???????BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: ???????SECTION?1.??Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 21.416 to read as [...]
Is it the money or the competition?
Texas’ 2007 dropouts will cost taxpayers $377 million every year | NCPA: The study finds that Texas school districts facing more private school competition have lower public school dropout rates. A modest school choice program, which would increase private school enrollment by just five percent, would reduce the public school dropout rate by 8,700 – [...]
State control is okay as long as we win
MySA.com: Metro | State: Texas is believed to be one of three states in which private schools are typically not allowed to compete with public schools in statewide extracurricular organizations. So the vast majority of states have found a way for private schools to compete with public schools? And schools in Texas can’t because of [...]