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Showing posts with label independent school districts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label independent school districts. Show all posts
Sunday, February 18, 2024

From PISD: Board of Trustees Call May 4 Bond Election

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For our look at local sources of revenue. - Click here for the notice .  The Pearland Independent School District Board of Trustees called f...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

From the Texas Tribune: A ballot box found weeks after Election Day has flipped a $569 million school bond vote in Midland

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Wow For our look at how elections are actually run. - Click here for the article . County officials found the missing box in early December...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Cities, School Districts and Special Districts in Brazoria County

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I copied these from the Brazoria County Elections Page . They all has elections last week on May 4. The links take you to the ballots presen...

From The Texas Tribune: Renewable energy proponents brace for last-minute attack on tax breaks for wind and solar

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Tax breaks for wind and solar energy are discussed in the policy chapters of 2306. - Click here for the article . In the waning days of the ...
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...
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 ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Not so tough on crime

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One way to reduce crime is to not define every problem as a criminal act subject to law enforcement. Two Texas Tribune stories touch on this...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

From Off The Kuff: Two point of view on the HISD ballot proposal.

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Yes - Interview with Jay Aiyer . No - Interview with David Thompson .

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...
Monday, September 26, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Analysis: A Game of Chicken Between Texas, Its Biggest School District

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More on the purpose of the proposition that will be offered to HISD voters related to capture - and some useful commentary on the problems p...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

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

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For 2306 mostly - this touched on single purpose governments, education policy, and referendum elections. - Click here for it . Voters wil...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

From the Fort Worth Start-Telegram: Texas comptroller gives Tarrant County school districts a grace period

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A bit on conflict over funding K-12 in Texas. - Click here for the article . As bad as things appear with the loss of millions of dollars ...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Cheerleader Case Can Proceed, State Supreme Court Rules

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This smells like a potential US Supreme Court case. It concerns whether the breakaway banners cheerleaders in Kountze High School created fo...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Bonds, Bonds and more Bonds!

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Texas Watchdog has a couple items on the assortment of bonds that will be on the ballot in the upcoming election. The first takes a critical...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

From the Texas State Historical Association: This Day in History #1

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Edgewood v. Kirby filed: On this day in 1984, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) filed a landmark suit again...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Federalism, local control and school closures

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I think the slow, plodding, piece meal decisions to close schools yesterday - one by one - due to the suspicion that the weather might be ba...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

The entire CSCOPE lesson plan

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Courtesy of the Texas Tribune . We should click through the section on government at some point to see what the fuss is about.

The CSCOPE debate

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CSCOPE , a K-12 educational curriculum support system designed to assist the smaller ISD's in Texas to prepare it students for the STARR...
Friday, February 8, 2013

From the Chronicle: State orders North Forest ISD to close

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Some material for our eventual look at public education in the state. State officials on Thursday once again recommended pulling the plug...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Do Bible verses on football "run-through" signs violated the establishment clause?

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Looks like we will find out sometime in the near future. This seems to be an interesting look at how schools struggle with student led attem...