education priorities
Education reform is okay as long as it doesn’t interfere with school
Bloomberg.com: U.S.: U.S. public schools should be run by private contractors who would graduate most students by 10th grade, concluded an expert commission sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The plan also calls for state funding to replace local property taxes, free pre-kindergarten and higher teacher pay on a merit-based system. The Gates [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
School choice isn’t the same as text book choice
Texas School Finance System Unconstitutional – by Connie Sadowski – The Heartland Institute: “I was pleased that the Supreme Court did not rule our schools were inadequately funded,” said Don McLeroy, a member of the State Board of Education’s Finance Committee. “Adequacy is a highly subjective assessment. The best way to judge an adequate education [...]
Your Texas State Board of Education: Don McLeroy
District 9 of the Texas State Board of Education is represented by Don McLeroy of Bryan, Texas. Apparently, McLeroy doesn’t like to let little things like facts get in his way. Recently, he was one of the board members advocating changing Texas English , Reading, and Writing standards. Texas Ed: Comments on Education from Texas: [...]
What’s good for football is good for everyone
Star-Telegram | 09/20/2006 | Where will they go?: It’s the bond election’s second proposition that might cause heartburn for some voters: $9.75 million for renovation and expansion of the district’s football stadium. After all, teaching academics is the primary goal for schools, and the Keller district has its hands full just providing the classroom space [...]
Whose side is he on?
Star Community Newspapers: Outdoor education in the form of a week long camp is no longer a part of the curriculum for fifth graders in the Lewisville school district.The board voted Wednesday night to discontinue fifth grade overnight camp and to look at other options for outdoor education utilizing the LISD Outdoor Learning Academy or [...]
$2000 per teacher must be less than 0.4% to TRS
Welcome to TSTA: Governor To TRS: Cut the State’s Contribution The TRS Board this week received a number of reports regarding future funding requirements. Currently, the state is paying the constitutional minimum of 6% to TRS and employees are paying 6.4%. The Governor of Texas and the Legislative Budget Board told TRS to cut their [...]