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Texas Students Will Still Take STAAR Tests In 2021, But Schools Won’t Be Rated On Them
Posted on · State lawmakers had previously asked the Texas Education Agency to seek a federal waiver to cancel the standardized tests.
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Education News
Report: Texas Schools Still Forcibly Restrain Students Too Often
Posted on · The advocacy group Disability Rights Texas examined statewide data and found that students with disabilities and Black students are physically restrained by educators at disproportionately high rates.
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TEA and Texas PBS Announce Educational Programming Collaboration
Posted on · Officially known as the At-Home Learning Initiative, the collaboration strengthens TEA’s efforts in assisting school districts and public charter schools with establishing instructional continuity and at-home learning during this unprecedented public health crisis.
Houston Matters
6 Things To Know About Selecting The Potential HISD Board Of Managers
Posted on · With legal challenges pending, TEA Commissioner Mike Morath provides an update on the potential state takeover of the HISD board.
Houston Matters
Monday’s Show: Disputes Between Hospitals And Health Insurers, And TEA Commissioner Mike Morath (Feb. 10, 2020)
Posted on · On Monday's Houston Matters: How contract disputes like the one between Memorial Hermann and Cigna might affect you, TEA Commissioner Mike Morath updates us on the potential takeover of the HISD board, we learn about some popular scams to avoid, and we get an update on Houston sports.
Houston Matters
How A State Takeover Of HISD Might Work
Posted on · Education expert Duncan Klussmann, a former superintendent, explains how state takeovers of school boards tend to play out.
Houston Matters
Tuesday’s Show: How A State Takeover Of HISD Would Work, And Practicing Haitian Vodou (Dec. 3, 2019)
Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: We examine the history of the Port Neches chemical plant where explosions and a fire occurred last week. An expert walks us through how the impending state takeover of the HISD board might work. A bug expert answers your questions. And we meet a local practitioner of the Haitian Vodou religion.
Houston Matters
Full Show: HISD’s Accountability Grades, Mounted Police Units, And Stevie Ray Vaughan Biography (Aug. 15, 2019)
Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: We examine HISD's latest accountability ratings. We discuss the history and relevance of mounted police units. We meet the authors of a new biography about Stevie Ray Vaughan. We learn the history of Houston's downtown tunnels. And developer Gerald Hines reflects on his contributions to the city's skyline.
Education News
Houston School District Earns ‘B’ Grade From State, But Not Enough Improvement At Struggling Schools
Posted on · The new grades give Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath another factor to consider as he weighs the possibility of removing the HISD nine-member board of trustees and installing an outside board of managers instead.
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New Details Emerge From State’s Special Investigation Into The Houston School Board
Posted on · The Houston school board has until Aug. 15 to submit its official response to the TEA.
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Full Show: TEA Completes HISD Investigation, Voices From El Paso, And The Santa Fe Resiliency Center (Aug. 8, 2019)
Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: What we know about the findings from TEA's investigation of HISD, stories from survivors of the El Paso mass shooting, inside a program to help victims of the Santa Fe school shooting, an examination of workplace accidents, and inside the world of competitive drum corps.
Education News
State Investigators Finish Their Preliminary Probe Into Houston School Board
Posted on · News 88.7 has also confirmed with two school board members that the Houston board has received a copy of the preliminary report, but it is not public.
Education News
Texas Is Preparing To Tell Feds It Can’t Promise A Special Education Fix Until June 2020
Posted on · The state indicated in previous communications with the federal government that a fix would be made by this January.
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DeVos Considers Federal Funding to Arm Teachers – Texas May Have Given Her The Idea
Posted on · A Trump administration official told Education Week that Texas first raised the possibility of using federal grants for that purpose
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TEA Releases Ratings of Texas School Districts
Posted on · HISD wasn’t rated because it met the Hurricane Harvey criteria the agency established