DOGEing the Texas Education Agency

Conservatives back Dem bill to shrink agency overseeing schools

"...Is it a transitory blip on Texas’ political radar or something more interesting – the beginning..."

March 28, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Judge Blocks Texas Education Agency From Releasing New, Harsher Grades

A-F accountability grade: incomplete

"...The Texas Education Agency won’t be releasing its new, harsher A-F..."

Oct. 27, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

AISD Accepts Monitor in New Deal With Texas Education Agency

Lesser of two evils?

"...on Tuesday night to accept an agreement with the Texas Education Agency that will keep a conservator from taking..."

Sept. 29, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Education Agency on the Money

Budget cuts coming to state public schools. Sound familiar?

"...The Texas Education Agency will seek about $3.5 billion less in..."

Sept. 21, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Scott Quitting Texas Education Agency

Controversial schools commissioner to leave July 2

"...Normally the exit of a state agency appointee causes nary a flutter, but not so today...."

May 1, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin ISD Receives "B" Grade from Texas Education Agency

District's overall score was 89%

"...School District received a "B" letter grade from the Texas Education Agency in a report released Wednesday for a..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Texas Education Agency Ratings

"...evaluated. Of these, only 94 were rated by the Texas Education Agency in the same manner as traditional Texas..."

April 4, 2003 News Feature

State Education Agency Dogs AISD Over Special Education Backlog

Austin ISD gets a state monitor

"...September 26: The Texas Education Agency announced in March that it would send..."

Dec. 15, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The State Education Agency Has Selected Austin’s Babysitters

The monitors are coming. Let’s pay them $125 an hour.

"...The Texas Education Agency has named the two monitors who will..."

Oct. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

NAACP and LULAC: Texas Education System Violates Federal Law

State board members say they're just whining

"...On Dec. 19, the Texas State Conference of the National Association for the Advance­ment..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Texas Fiction Science

The State Board of Education does its part to fantasize biology

"...But here's a bit of nonfiction: The Texas State Board of Education has just those two things...."

July 25, 2008 News Feature by Andrea Grimes

Has AISD Cleared its Special Education Backlog, or Not?

After July 1 deadline, 77 evaluations still not complete

"...announcement: its once-egregious backlog of hundreds of uncompleted special education evaluations was “no more.” The backlog, which had prompted..."

July 7, 2021 News Post by Clara Ence Morse

Opinion: Another Unfair Burden Put on Texas’ Public Schools

Greg Abbott and Mike Morath have put Texas schools in an impossible decision: shift to online learning, which is not as effective, or put students and families at risk by returning in the fall.

"...In 10 years of teaching, I have seen Texas enact policies that have eroded families' trust in public..."

July 3, 2020 Column by Alyssa Potasznik

Gifted and Talented Education Programs Turn the Lights Out on Non-White Students

"Race is the greatest predictor of who succeeds and fails in American public education"

"...her teachers planned to refer her to the special education coordinator. Her mother fought – against much resistance from..."

Nov. 22, 2019 News Feature by Autumn A. Arnett

Williams for Education Commissioner: Uh, Why?

Former Railroad Commissioner an inexplicable choice to lead schools

"...Welcome to the era of Commissioner of Education Michael Williams. No, do not adjust your television screens,..."

Sept. 2, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

State Board of Education Rejects Racist Mexican-American Textbook

Board votes unanimously to dump controversial, error-riddled book

"...are too politicized for even the State Board of Education to accept. In a unanimous vote this morning, Republican..."

Nov. 16, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Sen. Kirk Watson on the 86th Texas Legislature

“In Texas, we don’t focus on what our needs are; we focus on what we want to pay”

"...fifth term representing most of the city in the Texas Senate. His committee posts have included Finance, Health &..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Strama and the Mystery of the Texas Score Contradictions

State rep puzzled by how students do well and badly at the same time

"...Is Texas doing well in education, or is it doing badly?..."

June 18, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

A Walking Contradiction: Texas High Schools, Football, and Concussions

Thousands of students mash helmets every weekend – at what cost?

"...many involving thousands of high school football players in Texas...."

Oct. 30, 2013 Sports Post by Joseph Baucum

New Texas Law Will Require Most K-12 Teachers to Be Certified

School funding bill contains a game-changer on certifications

"...Texas school districts have increasingly turned to uncertified teachers to..."

April 24, 2025 News Post by Lucciana Choueiry

Educators Hate It, So Why Is Texas Keeping the STAAR Test Alive?

Behind efforts to eliminate the state test that stresses kids out and shuts schools down

"...STAAR – its full name is the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness – is the test given..."

May 23, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

AISD’s Special Education System Struggles to Keep Up

School system tries to keep up with its workload and comply with legal mandates

"...disorder (ADHD). She brought the results to the special education staff at Pecan Springs Ele­­ment­­ary, who concurred. But diagnoses..."

Feb. 26, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

STAAR Falls on Texas Schools

Academic assessment tests raises questions of fairness

"...stunned by disappointing results in the first State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, aka STAAR tests. The big..."

June 22, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

State of Texas Requiring AISD to Eliminate Specific Goals for Economically Disadvantaged Black Students

Austin ISD’s official goals to be "retooled"

"...The Texas Education Agency monitor era is underway at Austin ISD...."

Nov. 17, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Top 10 Education Stories

"...The U.S. Department of Education will take more of a backseat in education policy,..."

Jan. 1, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Abbott Appoints New Education Commissioner

Education advocates criticized Morath for attempting to quietly privatize Dallas ISD

"...There are some clenched jaws in Texas education circles as Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Dallas..."

Dec. 25, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Reclaiming Education: Hoping for Sanity at the SBOE

Will it take a miracle to oust the religious right bloc?

"...in the last few years the State Board of Education has apparently managed to accomplish it...."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Has AISD Cleared Its Special Education Backlog, or Not?

After July 1 deadline, 77 evaluations still to be completed

"...an announcement: Its once egregious backlog of uncompleted special education evaluations was "no more." The backlog, which had prompted..."

July 16, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Top 10 Education Stories

School finance lawsuits, AISD board shakeup, and more

"...candidate Michael Wil­liams as the state's new commissioner of education. Unlike all his predecessors, Williams has zero education policy..."

Jan. 4, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Education Stories

Mack Brown, Meria Carstarphen, and the rest of the gang

"...Memor­ial After years under constant threat of closure, the Texas Education Agency, AISD, and the East Austin community came..."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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