Dems Block McLeroy Nomination to SBOE Chair
Controversial creationist fails to get two-thirds of Senate support
"...violated state law when it rejected a set of textbooks because of ideological differences with them, and that he..."
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May 28, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols
Congratulations, It's a Biennial Budget
Conference committee approves $182 billion for 2010-11, now heads to floor
"...revenue and spending the original federal stimulus cash on textbooks may just be an ARRA compliance: But there are..."
May 26, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Microscope Zooms in on Anti-Science SBOE
Legislators try to rein in controversial education board
"...to do with curriculum and nothing to with selecting textbooks. You’ve created a hornet’s nest like I’ve never seen..."
April 28, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols
Maldonado's Milestone
Round Rock rep to lay out her first bill on the floor Thursday
"...it, but that doesn't apply to electronic equipment like textbooks on CD or laptop computers. Her bill will close..."
April 1, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Science and Rational Thought Must Prevail
"...the multimillion dollar textbook industry will publish in its textbooks. Will we have one textbook developed for Texas while..."
Feb. 3, 2009 Postmarks
Hope Lee Nichols Is Wrong
"...is important because of the influence it has on textbooks, etc., for K-12 education. To learn more about the..."
Jan. 30, 2009 Postmarks
Early to Rise
Daniel Johnson loves early music's purity of sound and intimacy, and he's not alone
"...haul it out of the margins of the music textbooks. As with folk music around the same time, there..."
Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
On Ypsilanti Roller Girls and Inverse Proportions
Continuing the film incentives crusade: Five percent really packs a punch
"...roads are falling apart and our kids don't have textbooks or chicken nuggets as a result? Movies about us..."
July 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Neon Exodus
For 22 years, the electrified mural on Fifth Street has been a local landmark, but now it's coming down
"...Austin in '93; Holt Rinehart's used it in their textbooks. It has a definite history in the city; a..."
March 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
ACC: Four for the Board
"...environmental conservation and move the school away from traditional textbooks to digital ones...."
March 21, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols
The Secret History of the English Language
If the late Douglas Adams had made his mark as a writer of history textbooks, the resulting volumes might read like The Secret History of the English Language
"...had made his mark as a writer of history textbooks, it's more than likely that the resulting volumes would..."
March 7, 2008 Books Review by Ken Lieck
The Wiis on the Bus
How the Wii Remote and simulated games are changing the way we learn
"...Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative! March 9, 11:30am,..."
Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Happenings
September 6-12
"...AUSTIN LECTURE SERIES Mark Loewe presents today's talk: Low-Cost Textbooks, Progressive Vouchers, and Incorrect TAKS Scores. 12:15pm. Austin History..."
Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature
AISD: Math Fight Resolved ... For Now
Board of trustees votes to select middle school math text favored by majority of middle school teachers
"...split between district administration and faculty over middle-school math textbooks Monday, voting to select Holt, the text favored by..."
March 30, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward
Lege Notes: Taser talk and more
Stories from under the pink granite dome
"...in terms of largest endowments. The fund, which underwrites textbooks and some school expenditures each biennium, provided $1.7 billion..."
March 2, 2007 News Column
Capitol Briefs
"...in terms of largest endowments. The fund, which underwrites textbooks and some school expenditures each biennium, provided $1.7 billion..."
March 2, 2007 News Feature
Against the Day
"...makes some of the prose read like grad-level math textbooks and the plotlines less susceptible to the grounding influence..."
Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by James Renovitch
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"..."Tincy" Miller of Dallas, who said technology can complement textbooks but it certainly cannot replace printed instructional material. –..."
July 21, 2006 News Feature
Point Austin: Low Expectations
Not much reason to believe that the Lege will do right by Texas students
"...than $660 million in emergency spending on things like textbooks, nursing homes, medical education, etc., that never quite got..."
April 14, 2006 News Column by Michael King
Bush Administration's Next Invasion?
"...without killing off more. If printed truthfully in history textbooks, the past five years will portray the irresponsibility of..."
March 24, 2006 Postmarks
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"...with meters, and children not being allowed to take textbooks home, and firemen who are handling five calls in..."
March 10, 2006 Column
Money to Fund Public Projects Has to Come From Somewhere
"...with meters, and children not being allowed to take textbooks home, and firemen who are handling five calls in..."
March 2, 2006 Postmarks
Terms of Engagement
If 'We Can't Make It Here,' then James McMurtry's in big trouble
"...like Tom Waits gargling a bookcase full of sociology textbooks, McMurtry says he's always been careful to focus on..."
Sept. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Andy Langer
Naked City
'Better than a stick in the eye' says teacher union head
"...the Texas Education Agency announced that new spending on textbooks would be matched with new cuts in the state's..."
Aug. 26, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Lege or Circus?
A lack of democracy turns education 'reform' into an unfunny joke
"...acted Tuesday to spend nearly $300 million on new textbooks, freeing them from a warehouse where they too were..."
Aug. 12, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith
The Hightower Report
Bushites squelch negative Central American labor conditions report; and sustainable food program teaches students more than they'll ever learn in a sterile classroom
"...cooperation, and community than they can possibly glean from textbooks and sterile classrooms...."
Aug. 12, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower
Naked City
Watchdog group questions whether a public-school Bible course is purely academic
"...Chancey countered that "tons" of nonsectarian textbooks exist to teach students to know their Acts from..."
Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Lege Notes
Odds and ends – mostly odds – from beneath the pink granite dome
"...that includes a teacher pay raise, health insurance, and textbooks. Teachers groups have been privately lobbying to get this..."
Aug. 5, 2005 News Column
Point Austin: Wish Lists
AFSCME steps up to the council budget table, and the
bonds begin to take shape
"...Lege seems disinclined to pay even for new school textbooks); project estimate is $106.9 million, plus the creation of..."
July 29, 2005 News Column by Michael King
Point Austin: Thoughts After Celebration
Beneath the rockets' red glare, the costs of our Iraq misadventure mount
"...might go to adequate facilities, job security, raises, and textbooks, all in short supply). For Austin, the number is..."
