The Republic of Turkey filed a 32-page complaint against the Houston-based Harmony Public Schools Tuesday. It asks the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to investigate and sanction the public charter chain over its practices and affiliations.
More Texas school districts seek to erase their Confederate history by rebranding campuses with politically correct names. This reality, sparked by the 2015 tragic, fatal shootings of nine black church parishioners in South Carolina, has only been exacerbated by images that surfaced of the shooter with the Confederate flag.
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced Monday the number of the state’s high school students taking at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course more than doubled over the past decade. In fact, the percentage of Texas students participating in the program outpaced the national average.
The same Texas public school board that stripped the historical namesakes of figures associated with the Confederacy from four campuses in January, the Houston Independent School District, voted to rebrand three more late last week.
The call for school choice remains a high priority for top Texas lawmakers Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick during National School Choice Week.
Former Texas teacher Tanya Ramirez, 31, pleaded guilty to the second degree felony charge of having an improper relationship with a student in exchange for seven years of probation. Ramirez then turned around and filed a defamation lawsuit against the mother of the student with whom she admitted to the purported sexual misconduct. Ramirez may even sue the student for invasion of privacy.
The Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees voted 5-4 Thursday evening to rebrand four campuses named for historical figures associated with the Confederacy.
Slap-boxing, the fighting with open hands instead of fists, has hit a middle school in Austin. A 12-year-old boy at the Texas school did not want to participate in the violence but was told he would be beat-up if he did not. Parents are upset that a school official called it “horseplay.”
Gov. Greg Abbott tapped longtime Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustee Mike Morath as the state’s next Education Commissioner to oversee the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for the state’s 1,200 school districts and charters, a decision already receiving mixed reviews.
Texas lawmakers held a hearing this week on the rampant number of educators who cross the line and engage in improper sexual relationships with their students. The abhorrent conduct violates the trust placed in them to protect pre-K to 12th grade school children.
Dallas Independent School District police detained a 13-year-old T.W. Browne Middle School female student Wednesday for allegedly making a terroristic threat against the campus over social media.
Anyone can sue and so “Clock Boy” Ahmed is contemplating suing. He and his family may want $15 million, but a Texas juvenile law expert says his claims have little merit to win a case in court.
Incidences of Texas teachers accused of improper relationships with students continue to stream into the 2015-16 school year. An autumnal cluster full of allegations of sexual acts or “sexting,” sending explicit sexual text messages or images, with under-aged minors have been reported.
The mainstream media trashed Texas homeschool laws in an onslaught of hit pieces that put the state’s laws on trial while crusading for heightened regulations in response to the Texas Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on Monday in Michael and Laura McIntyre v. the El Paso Independent School District, an action initiated by a homeschool family.
An East Texas teacher was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for inappropriate sexual relations with three high school students. The state’s latest educator brought to justice after being found guilty of this type of crime.
Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams expressed his hope that the feds will grant the state a permanent No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) waiver, a message buried within his weekend announcement about rolling out tougher criteria for the state’s annual standardized public and charter school testing.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced Tuesday that the U.S. Education Department (USED) finally renewed the state’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver on a short-term 2015-16 basis.
The 2014-15 academic year marks the 7th year in a row that Texas teacher sexual misconduct towards students cases have increased. On Friday, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) reported that they opened 188 cases of educator accused of these inappropriate relationships during the fiscal year ending August 31.
The Texas Supreme Court heard opposing arguments in the much anticipated showdown between the state and 600-plus public school districts over public education finance reform on Monday.
Texas taxpayers wasted $37 million on a failed state program intended to help low-income middle schools cut student obesity rates through physical fitness, according to new study by the University of Texas at Austin.
A second North Texas high school teacher was taken into custody this week. The teacher is accused of sexual misconduct with the same 16-year-old female student who was allegedly victimized by the school’s band director who was arrested at the same school earlier this week.
Texas is faced with the dilemma of more teachers accused of sexual misconduct with their students. This casts a dark shadow over the classroom as kids head back-to-school.
The Texas State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) suggested rule changes last week that would alter the criteria for public school superintendent certification. The proposal drew the ire of a lone education lobbyist.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced its statewide public education accountability ratings. Although favorable, showing most school districts and charters fared well, these results were compiled using changed criteria and relying on less reported information.
The latest high school graduation rates for Texas tell a good story of record-breaking rates. However, they may not tell the future story given new graduation requirements.
The summer months saw a disturbing surge of teacher sexual misconduct with students as the start of the new school year starts is just a few weeks away.
Eligible Texas public school teachers can now apply for same-sex spouse benefits.
On June 9, Texas homeschool families will celebrate “Leeper Day,” set aside to honor the 1994 Texas Supreme Court decision on the landmark court case (Leeper v. Arlington ISD) that legalized homeschooling in the Lone Star state. Twenty one years later, it is the current governor, Greg Abbott, who has recognized this historical date.
Teacher-student sexual misconduct in public schools is a serious matter. Last year, Texas landed at the unenviable top position on the list in a Drive West Communications study. A whopping 116 of the nation’s 781 recorded educator-student misconduct cases happened in the Lone Star State. This revelation came on the heels of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) experiencing a 27 percent increase in these kinds of inquiries which was was followed by 74 new cases under TEA investigation, as Breitbart Texas previously reported.
