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Showing posts with label K-12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label K-12. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

From CityLab: The Stadiums That Ate Texas Why are these Dallas suburbs funding the most expensive high school football stadiums ever built?

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Good question. For 2306 - mostly. - Click here for the article . In Texas, the old hands say there are only two seasons: spring football a...
Monday, February 13, 2017

From the Texas Tribune: Analysis: Texas makes do with broken but legal school finance system

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Texas' complex system for funding education might be at a breaking point. - Click here for the article . As the Texas Legislature sear...
Friday, January 20, 2017

From the Texas Taxpayers and Research Organization: An Introduction to School Finance in Texas

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This is a great look at school finance. Lengthy though. We will look through this later this semester in 2306. - Click here for the docu...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Abbott, Patrick disagree on special session for school funding

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School funding promises to be a dominant issue during the next regular session. A special session would take some pressure off. - Click her...
Friday, October 21, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Analysis: Rising local school property taxes ease state budget woes

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This is good news, I guess. - Click here for the story . It would not be completely accurate to say billions in local school tax money is ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

From the Houston Chronicle: Robbing HISD - Voters should say 'no' to putting district under the Robin Hood recapture plan.

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Voters who live in the boundaries of HISD have the chance to approve or disapprove subjecting itself to recapture - otherwise known as the R...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

From NBC - 2: ACLU reaches out to Collier school district over anthem protestor ban

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Possible test case? Do students have a right to protest? - Click here for the article . The Collier County School District is reacting to ...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Paxton Opinion Slams Schools' Transgender Policies

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Doing what he is constitutionally authorized to do. A great example of conflict between the three levels of government. - Click here for...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Everything you ever wanted to know about school finance in Texas

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Well, very likely more than you ever wanted to know. For 2306 - lot's more detail than what you get in the text: - From the TEA: Sch...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

This and That about the SBOE

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- Some Texas State Board of Education Members Don't Know What The Big Deal Is With Textbook Misprints . Over the weekend, social media...
Monday, April 11, 2016

From the Austin American Statesman: Grusendorf: School finance should value each student the same

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A subject we've been covering in several 2306 sections. Texas' method of financing public school continues to be a - constitutional...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

From the Fort Stockton Pioneer: STAAR student test was decades in the making

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Where did that high stakes test come from anyway? - Click here for the article . Developed to measure student success in college and in fut...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

From Ballotpedia: Texas 1993 ballot measures

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Texans reject very few amendments to the Texas Constitution, but in May 1993 they rejected three that would have addressed unequal funding i...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Edgewood v Kirby

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Here are a few links relating to a seminal case where the Texas Supreme Court argued Texas' financing scheme for public schools violated...
Friday, January 15, 2016

From Quorum Report: Veteran school finance lawyer casts doubts on constitutionality of new school finance court

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Texas has struggled to justify it cuts to K-12 funding back in the 82nd session. It has been argued to violate the Texas Constitution's ...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Controversy kicks up over how slavery is covered in Texas social studies textbooks.

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More battles rage over the content of K-12 social studies textbook. This time its over how slaves are referred to in a caption. Here's a...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Textbook wars continue in Texas

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For this week's written assignment for GOVT 2306. A few items related to the controversy over what the State Board of Education wants st...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

From the Washington Post: Arizona will require high school students to pass citizenship test to graduate. Can you pass?

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They want their high school students to know as much as newly naturalized citizens. - Click here for the article . Arizona high school st...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

School funding trial back on track

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In the opening lectures this semester we mentioned that the Texas Constitution contains language related to the need for the legislature to...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The last post on civic education - at least for a little while

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Two quick links. This takes you to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Civic Education . It provides - as you would assum...