Legislature
If they request it, you shall provide it
MySA.com: Politics AUSTIN — After a bill to teach Bible classes to high school students easily gained approval from the Senate on Wednesday, lawmakers immediately disagreed on whether the measure would make the courses mandatory. Legislative leaders were not sure whether school districts would be obligated to offer the religion studies course if 15 or [...]
TEXAS Grants for graduates of any Texas High School
80(R) HB 1250 – Introduced version – Bill Text: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to prohibiting discrimination based on a student’s secondary school in awarding certain financial aid for higher education. ???????BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: ???????SECTION?1.??Section 56.304(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: [...]
Unschooling disguised as recess
Looks like parents might be able to save recess based on local values. 80(R) HB 366 – Introduced version – Bill Text: SECTION?1.??This Act may be cited as the “Freedom to Play and Learn Act.” ???????SECTION?2.??Section 28.004, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (l) to read as follows: ???????(l)??The local school health advisory council [...]
Banning Corporal Punishment?
In Texas? 80(R) HB 379 – Introduced version – Bill Text: (b)??A school district employee or a volunteer or independent contractor of a district may not administer corporal punishment or cause corporal punishment to be administered to a student. But wouldn’t that make us all wimps?
You can only whistle-blow if you go through channels
Another case of “you’ve got to wonder why” proposed legislation? 80(R) HB 362 – Introduced version – Bill Text: ? A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the ability of public school employees to communicate with members of a school district board of trustees. ???????BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE [...]
TEKS need to be in the student textbook as well
80(R) HB 77 – Introduced version – Bill Text: REQUIRED TEXTBOOK ADOPTION AND TEXTBOOK LISTS. (a) ?For each subject and grade level, the State Board of Education shall adopt textbooks that contain all elements of the essential knowledge and skills of the subject and grade level, as determined by the State Board of Education under [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]