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  PUBLIC EDUCATION  2009 ARCHIVES
 

Headlines archived in chronological order as originally posted in 2009


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Editorial: State board's business should be education

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Teacher arrested, accused of zip tying unruly student

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Brownsville school vice principal accused of soliciting sex from students

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Recession May Mean No Forced Robin Hood Payment From Dallas ISD

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Fort Worth school district trustee goes overboard with rhetoric

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Arlington, Kennedale cheerleaders are national champs

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Finger-pointing grows on state education board

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School districts as employers, landlords

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Failing Ector County ISD has averaged between 174 & 176 calendar days for the past decade, Texas law requires 180 days - this is very common

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Charter district learning tough financial lessons - and unlike traditional districts they can't get into your pocket with tax increases to fix their mismanagement.

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Some schools ditching traditional spelling tests - typical

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Ex-bus monitor files whistle-blower lawsuit against Brownsville ISD

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Harris Co. education board moves to eject trustee Michael Wolfe

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Too many Texas students waiting for charter school slots

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Dallas schools' work atmospheres vary widely, survey shows

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Charges Dropped Against Teacher Who Had “Fallen In Love” With Teenage Student

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Charter, magnet schools dominate U.S. News & World Report top schools list

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Hallsburg Teacher Charged With Improper Relationship Seeks Dismissal

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Navasota I.S.D., Administrators Sued

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Superintendents' salaries at charter schools need close oversight

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Teachers Taking Complaints About Paperwork to School Boards

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Austin ISD polls public for proposed budget cuts

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La Marque ISD police chief indicted

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Former Judson High teacher sentenced to 15 years for threats

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Texas Citizen to SBOE

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Beaumont ISD Superintendent Carrol Thomas top salary in Texas

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Texas schools wait to find out if they'll lose funding after swine flu absences

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Dallas ISD places Kimball High principal, assistant principal on paid leave

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Gov. Perry: IRS Approves Texas’ Request to Back School Bonds

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Final Adequate Yearly Progress results show that 81 percent of Texas schools and districts meet standards

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Dual-language looks good, but can Austin afford it? - even if free it does NOT look good

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Brett Springston named Brownsville ISD's new superintendent

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Balch Springs parents battle school over 4-year old son's long locks

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4 DISD High Schools Could Face State Takeover

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48 Dallas ISD campuses listed among Texas' worst schools

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Gov. Perry Promotes $100 Million STEM Challenge Scholarship Initiative

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100 Teach for America recruits to begin in San Antonio ISD next year

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Dewhurst says concentrate on middle school to avoid higher dropout rates

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Family of girl with cerebral palsy files complaint against Leander district

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Conroe ISD's Jo Ann Beken named Texas Principal of the Year

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Dallas-area schools hover over dropouts to win them back

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Abilene schools on verge of becoming 'majority minority' district

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Offiicials: School lockdowns protect students from harm

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Editorial: Wiser for Texas to help craft national school standards - typical of them to not understand why we want little to do with the Feds.

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College Station 4th Grader Hands Out Bullets On School Bus - so he's generous!

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Taylor ISD substitute charged in sex assault of student

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Wylie Football Coach Charged In Sex-With-Student Case

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Teacher's aide from Frisco pleads guilty to sex-assault charge involving student

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Former Jim Ned Teacher Sentenced

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Four charged in substitute teacher scam, police say

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SBOE's Dunbar backs Russell, confirms plans to not run

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Houston charter school, Kipp Academy, ranked 16th best high school in the USA by U.S. News & World Report

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North Texas High Schools Named America's Best

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El Paso ISD Embraces Honest Grading, Sort Of

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Midland ISD superintendent announces retirement

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New Federal Legislation Introduced To Protect Disabled Students

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Clint elementary school teacher accused of indecency with child

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Cynthia Dunbar will not seek re-election to the SBOE

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High school player dies after baseball workout in Fort Worth

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Dallas ISD officials probe possible TAKS cheating involving Pinkston High football players

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East Texas former coach accused of improper relationship with students

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Texas' charter school law gets a "D"

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Dallas ISD IT chief fired

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Rented school buses carrying Plainview ISD's name used for partying

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Fort Worth teen files civil rights complaint, says volleyball coach benched her over pregnancy

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Flu Closes Apple Springs Schools

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Lessons Texas can learn from AP exam failures

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TASB Report: Texas school superintendent salaries up 3.6% this year, average is $117,372, many districts adding huge bonuses on top of salary

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Plainview girl arrested for threatening to blow up school

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Donna ISD to Tests Some Students, Teachers for TB

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Rockwall ISD aquatics center discourages use as family swimming pool

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More Texas students taking, failing AP exams

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School districts worry about swine flu's effect on their finances

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TEA to intervene in San Antonio charter school district

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Arlington ISD Trustees Vote Down Cesar Chavez Holiday - consideration of such was pitiful

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Texas public school district looks at doing away with class rankings - more "let's not measure results", shameful

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Donna school board member expected to resign after guilty plea

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Bus Driver Fired After Gay Beating

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TEA Commish Robert Scott Changing Texas Education Via Charter Schools

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Former charter school head sues district over ads

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Court sides with district in Plano candy cane suit

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Texas Mother of 5 Compares Factual U.S. History to “Revised Public Schools’ Version

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Homeschooling takes off

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Comptroller recognizes Tyler, Smith Co. & Tyler ISD for financial transparency efforts

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Plano ISD parents blast new attendance zone proposals

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HPD: Teacher Videotaped Bathroom

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Former West ISD High School Secretary Avoids Jail

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Alvarado ISD campus burglarized

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Comal ISD gets 3 new pools - so broke those public schools!

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New curriculum aids smaller school districts

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Eastland ISD Offers District Daycare

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Ex-band Katy teacher gets probation in sex case

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Editorial: School districts wrong to fight truth-in-grading law

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Judson ISD offers night classes to boost grad rate

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NAACP protests indictments in Silsbee cheerleader case

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McKinney ISD trustees settle on choice for superintendent

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Teacher accused of exposing himself in San Antonio park

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Former teacher pleas no contest to inappropriate relationship with student

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Substitute Fingerprinting Leads to Decline in Applicants

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Gov. Perry: Education Standards Must Be Determined by Texas, Not Washington

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Abilene ISD to pay new chief over $200,000 per year

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Dallas ISD Working To Replenish Rainy Day Emergency Fund

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Magnolia ISD receives $5,000 fine from TCEQ

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Horse falls on student during high school rodeo

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Manor starts teacher training institute with Stimulus $

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State education board cuts number of PE credits graduates can use

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Somerset ISD teacher accused of assault

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Schools get some H1N1 vaccine

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Investment firm ousted over SBOE gift disclosures

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SBOE's Tincy Miller to Receive Simmons Luminary Award

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Somerset teacher charged with assaulting students

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More than 10 inches of rain falls on Rockport; Aransas Co. schools closed

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Former music teacher sentenced for child porn

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Four Injured In Eastland County School Bus Crash

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Robstown School Bus Involved In Head-On Collision

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State Board of Education Investment Firm Stands by Contribution Reports on Gifts

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Schools file lawsuit over new minimum grade ban - proving once again they are pro-bureaucracy more than teaching children

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Ken Mercer on Texas History standards

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Former La Joya high school principal charged with felony theft

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Final chapter looms for textbooks in Texas

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Rio Vista ISD is officially in the red by more than $500,000

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Waco School Bus Accident Sends 19 Students To The Hospital

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Texting incident leads to teacher resignation

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ACE Academy: New Texas School for Gifted Children Grows from 8 to 85 in Four Years

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Odds of wearing skinny pants in Mesquite ISD: slim to none

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LeTourneau leads private schools in Texas for certified teachers

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Hispanics’ role in Texas history pushed - yes but which Hispanics? There has been a long effort to promote liberals and anti-Texas, anti-American tradition Hispanics while ignoring the many Tejanos who were part of the Texas revolution, those who were leaders in Texas confederate efforts, and the many land holders and business owners who have shown true distinction even in an age of official state-sponsored democrat segregation and discrimination.

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Texas Mother to SBOE: History Taught Should be Based on Truth, Founding Principles

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SBOE’s Miller Calls for Transparency in Adopting Instructional Materials, Protection of “Children’s Textbook Fund”

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UIL Reprimands Midway Assistant Coach

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Part I of II: Texas Should Proceed Carefully Before Allowing Open-Source Materials in Classrooms, Part II of II

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Former Donna superintendent awarded $1.2 million

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Marquez & TexansCAN! Charter Schools Honored by Texas Association of Business

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Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Laptops Taken From Blum school

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New history standards too liberal, critic says

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3 White Settlement schools on 'perimeter lock down' while officials deal with device

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Assistant Brownsville ISD principal charged with soliciting teen for sex

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Three charged after gun found at Del Valle High School

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Wichita Falls Parents Seek To Ban A Book - The Egypt Game

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Update on Texas’ New Science Standards from Ken Mercer

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Big Sandy hopes to keep teacher who refused fingerprinting

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Taxpayers want to know who American schools are really educating

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Robstown ISD's interim leader resigns after verbal confrontation

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Attorney: School board member to plead guilty in corruption case

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Parents unload on Spring ISD

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Gates Foundation fund infusion to help Houston KIPP schools

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Olton names McIver lone finalist for superintendent

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Part III of III: The Left’s War on U.S. History

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Part II of III: The Left’s War on U.S. History

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Part I of III: The Left’s War on U.S. History

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Damon ISD super pulls out all the stops

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Abilene ISD School Board shuts down protected political speech - admits to having a policy prohibiting criticism of elected board members!

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Fund charter schools

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PTA Mom Accepts Appointment To Open Mesquite School Board Seat

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El Paso Bowie High School assistant football coach arrested on suspicion of sexual assault

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Wellman-Union ISD teacher under investigation for kissing a student

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Somerset ISD teacher to remain on leave over inappropriate touching issue

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Miami ISD Classes Canceled after fire in the school

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Tatum teacher resigns after reported 'incidents' in classroom

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Strings attached to stimulus dollars for schools - only a fool would be surprised by this!

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Former Pottsboro coach indicted for improper relationship with student

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Texas among first to toughen standards for colleges of education

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Are schools the soft underbelly for anti-Americanism?

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Muleshoe ISD appeal denied by TEA

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Teachers' trainers must make the grade, too

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Houston ISD chief plans to quickly cut dropout rate

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Teacher refuses mandatory fingerprinting, sues TEA

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Editorial: Major changes needed in South San ISD

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Wichita Falls ISD's Donna Patrick named 2010 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year

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Amarillo middle school student arrested for allegedly groping classmates

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Winnsboro Band Director Investigated For Alleged Improper Conduct

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Deweyville ISD to close Thursday and Friday due to flood fears

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Galveston Island a charter school laboratory

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Del Rio bilingual program avoids state takeover

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Dropout problem drags Texas down, Faulty figures: The great dropout debate

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Student restraints: How Texas school districts compare

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Del Valle should welcome, not block, a PTA

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Study finds Texas teacher merit pay did little, more

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Education commissioner to waive cap on Charter Schools

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Some School Districts Considering School Bus Advertising

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Cross-dressing student sent home from Aldine ISD school

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Tires slashed on all 13 of Maypearl ISD's buses

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Beaumont ISD teacher arrested, found with drugs and guns

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Fort Bend high school principal takes unexpected leave of absence

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Pine Tree ISD officially hires Marian Strauss as superintendent

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Avinger ISD names ex-Gladewater superintendent as interim chief

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Belton ISD bond a hot topic

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Lockney teacher investigated by the TEA

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Teacher training programs eyed

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Texas' School Fund might invest in charter school facilities

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Schools say community help needed in sex education

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Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year from El Paso ISD

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Perryton assistant principal might lose job over tiff

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State's teacher policy had been federally approved, education chief says

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Perry: Texas is a Better Place Thanks to Dedication of School Teachers

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Rising water prompts early release of Vidor ISD students

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Pratt: Taxpayers deserve meaningful school measurement

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Bus driver arrested after making advances on Aledo student

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Amarillo school said to not take excuses from students or teachers - shouldn't be "news" as it should be that way everywhere.

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Third of Taylor County Students Don't Graduate

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Odessa: Bowie Junior High Teacher Arrested on Tampering with a Witness charge

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Elementary teacher indicted for child pornography

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Former Fort Worth ISD teacher and coach convicted of sex with student

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Study: Texas' student proficiency standards below federal norms

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Small & rural: Patton Springs ISD a 2009 National Blue Ribbon School, school's history

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Mystery illness hits three Natalia teachers in lunch group

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Rio Vista student gets diploma 70 years later

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Cleburne's Smith Middle School remains locked down after gun threat

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Bus driver investigated for alleged improper contact with girl

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Is Spring ISD misusing taxpayers' money?

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Teacher accused of forming 'secret society' to have sex with teen girls

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San Antonio ISD gets closer to shuttering 13 schools

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Teacher transferred from hospital to jail

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Galveston ISD education needs tough answers

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Austin trustees approve superintendent's bonus benchmarks

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Ex-Longview ISD band official pleads guilty to one charge in porn case

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Teacher takes GED path to the classroom

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UIL to decide grid title sites in all classes

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Austin ISD tops EPA list for green power use - now if they could rank high on education we'd have something

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Bryan School Bus Hit; Students On Board Uninjured

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Former Killeen PTA President Arrested In Theft Of $14,000

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Lamar ISD teacher charged in son's stabbing & sexual assault of students

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Texas Recognized for Best Dropout Prevention Practices in NGA Report

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TEA Fails Test

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Charter school momentum

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Police: Middle School teacher jailed for relationship with student

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Gov. Perry Surprises Teacher With Award

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Half Of Dallas 5th Graders Not Ready For Middle School

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Texline School to Close Due to Illness

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Bishop ISD Cancels Classes After Vandals Ransack School

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Why the Charter School Movement Needs to Stay Alive

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DA: Paddling Incident Not Against the Law

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Kerens ISD to close High School Thursday, Friday due to illness

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Another "broke" school district puts in district-wide wireless internet system

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Cost overruns add concern to Beaumont ISD bond issue

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Manor High students charged with riot participation

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Ex Central Texas Teacher Charged With Improper Relationship With Student

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CCPD: Pair robbed outside elementary school - How’s that drug-free, crime-free, gun-free, safe zone of a public school working out?

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Conroe ISD to look at possibility of ‘Robin Hood’

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Austin ISD superintendent to host “conversation” on dual language

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Broke Schools: Montgomery ISD to review staffing for new aquatic center

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DPS Troopers to Board Buses for Safety Week

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Tyler teacher expressed concern about student days before classroom killing

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Fort Worth school district backs off ban on minifridges in classrooms

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Ethics revision underway at State Board of Education

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Despite law, it could take years for school buses to get seat belts

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3 Education Board members take issue with social studies proposal

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Fredericksburg teacher accused of having sex with student

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$27 million budget cut is looming at Northeast ISD (San Antonio)

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Gov. Perry Announces Program to Improve and Expand T-STEM Academies

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Ex-choir teacher pleads guilty in child porn case

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Dalhart schools on lockdown to outside visitors

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Illnesses close another school district

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Texas students tally strong scores in national math test

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Austistic Student Receives Citation for Dropping "F" Bomb

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Update: Motion to censure Ysleta ISD trustee is withdrawn, Ysleta ISD trustee faces censure: Dissenter's talk-show opinions criticized - no kidding, a government body is considering "publicly condemning" a fellow board member for political speech made via radio! I wonder what they teach about the Constitution, if they do so at all, in El Paso.

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Weslaco bus driver charged with fondling student

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Updated: Former Pottsboro coach turns himself in to authorities, Arrest warrant issued for former Pottsboro coach

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Auf Wiedersehen: Texas schools losing German programs

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Fired Laredo ISD truant officer tells his side of the story

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Laredo ISD fires truant officer, suspends principal in connection with Katherine Cardenas murder

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Student: Spring ISD teacher charged with sexual assault is 'sweet, nice'

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Lubbock ISD creates yet another salaried position to focus upon staff, not students

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DPS Troopers Find 5,000 Pounds Of Pot In Bogus Texas School Bus

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Silsbee teen faces in-school suspension - the "he" looks like a "she"

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School districts see shortage of seasonal flu vaccine

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Cost prompts Mansfield school officials to send auditorium proposal back to city

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Wortham ISD closes schools for the week due to flu

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ACLU: Baird ISD in Trouble Over Bibles

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Dallas ISD board will not reprimand superintendent for sneaking raise past them

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El Paso teacher union contends grade policy is illegal

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Pottsboro coach resigns amid allegations

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Falling furniture kills kindergartner at Waco school

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Mission CISD Bus Accident

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Rep. Dan Flynn wants stronger penalties for those who kill teachers

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PRO/CON: Do students need longer school year or more hours in school day?

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Unprofessionalism hurting South San Antonio ISD

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Texas puts more mumbo-jumbo in the schools

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Ector County ISD coach on paid leave after he and former Permian star arrested

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Harrold ISD closes due to flu-like illnesses

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Another always-broke school district plans new athletic stadium complex - to pay out of pocket with no borrowing! How could this be as schools are being starved to death!

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Democrat SBOE member's business raises questions over disclosure, transparency

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San Antonio ISD student clinches Lone Star Emmy nod

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Parents criticize Garland school's solution to swim team controversy

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Corpus Christi Middle School Teacher Faces Indecency With A Child Charges

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New Law Changes Minimum Grades - the worry mentioned shows just how bad public schools have become!

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Dallas ISD superintendent could face reprimand today over raise that slipped past school board

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Athletic director suing 2 South San ISD trustees

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Texas A&M System tapped to train and recruit principals

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Texas school vaccination deadline again leaves parents scrambling

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Liberal: SBOE Shapes Education of Children Toward Founder’s Visions of America - exactly what I've told you. There is much propaganda being put out about the SBOE which is not based upon truth.

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Sweetwater high school football players in gang

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PRO/CON: Should the book 'Friday Night Lights' be banned from Beaumont schools?

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Flu Closing Schools Around Texas

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Chisum ISD closed due to excessive illness

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Cost of closing school for swine flu will be hefty

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Texas district adds metal detectors after stabbing - wrong response

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School bus crash sends four to hospital; no students hurt

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Ex-North DeSoto High teacher pleads guilty to improper relationship

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Ex-Spring High School teacher pleads guilty in student sex case

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Schools becoming more 'tolerant' as 'zero tolerance' rules end

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San Antonio middle school rankings: 3 charter campuses make list

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After fleeing Hurricane Katrina, educator back on top at Irving school

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Fairview's Sloan Creek Middle School closed Monday due to suspected flu cases

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China Spring High School Evacuated Friday

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Palmview teacher, church volunteer, charged after having sex with student

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Editorial: Beaumont ISD should build schools before stadium - imagine putting education first, what a concept

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Killeen Woman Arrested In High School Booster Club Theft

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New Braunfels ISD Superintendent to resign

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Bexar county charter school audit finds problems

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Special Education Aide Charged In Incident Involving High School Freshman

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Conroe ISD: Man exposed self to junior high girls' cross country team

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Texas Should Replace Bilingual Education

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Teacher killed in stabbing at high school in Tyler - I wonder if this teacher would be alive had he been a CHL holder and allowed to carry at school?

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Fort Worth district considering closing some schools

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Burleson elementary school evacuated after toilet paper set ablaze

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Grand jury meeting cancelled in Silsbee cheerleader case

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Cheerleader's Lawsuit Against C-FBISD Dismissed

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Having kids wash their tables stopped at Lubbock schools, parents object! - A listener comments on the story

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Demise of classical liberal education in America is unfolding in Austin

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McAllen school district considers asking state for class-size waiver

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Too many names to study in history? Check a student's "friends list"

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It’s the Democrats in Del Rio politicking with the Obama school speech

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The Way I See It: State Board makes the right call on social studies

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Convicted Men Arrested for Progreso ISD Voter Fraud

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TEA receives $10 million on high-tech system to improve Texas schools

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Plano ISD's Winnebago

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Judge orders Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD to seat trustee with disputed residency

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Deadline Approaches For Un-immunized Texas Students

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School Bus with Swimmers Plunges into Pond

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Former Brownsville ISD superintendent considering appeal of his firing

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Olton ISD, superintendent part ways

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Panhandle school assembly "gone wrong", students say speaker was "crazy"

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Tiff at Perryton, between employees, school spurs suspensions

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SBOE signals intent to keep Christmas in school books - read: Texas History Re-Writers: Is This Really Happening?

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Board of Education: Christmas to stay, Neil Armstrong is out

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Lometa ISD Teacher Resigns After District Launches Investigation

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Magnolia blocking alums from its homecoming dance

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Appeals court affirms injunction preventing demolition of Beaumont ISD's South Park school building

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Texas Comptroller begins school district fund evaluation

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Latest TEA monitor report "least critical" of Cleburne ISD - note how the home town "booster" paper tried to spin it positive in the headline, on the website, but the first line says "least critical"

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Texas ed board tentatively OKs electives

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Texas' failed sex education - silly

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Parents Upset Schools Not Telling Them About H1N1

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Editorial: Border school district making the right call

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SBOE’s Ken Mercer: No More Christmas in America?

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What Belongs In Texas Students' History Books?

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Aldine named best urban school system in America

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TEA issues fitness challenge to “Walk Across Texas!” - get back to the classroom

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Ex-Jefferson ISD football coach being investigated for improper relationship with student

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Northwest ISD distributes laptops to students - but remember, they're broke!

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Texas History Re-Writers: Is This Really Happening?

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UT’s Objectivism Society denounces public education

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State Board of Education (SBOE) to air meetings via the Internet

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Mesquite ISD student, an 11-year old girl, dies from H1N1 Swine flu

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School Bus Driver Killed In Bell County Wreck

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Texas school leader cancels field trip that includes Bush appearance

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Texas conservatives angered at proposal to take Christmas out 6th-grade social studies lesson

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Insertion of Liberal’s Texas History Warrants SBOE Action: Part I, Part II, Part III

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School libraries no longer do it by the book

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Lumberton ISD board seeks more information about gun proposal

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Arlington school district apologizes for how it handled Obama speech

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Thousands of Dallas County students still don't have required shots, health officials say

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School Choice in Texas - Bob Schoolfield

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Poll confirms public confusion over what Charter Schools are

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An update on home schooling

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TCU Daily Skiff column: Religious teachings in public high schools should include the Koran

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Editorial: Bible classes poorly planned

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TAKS Test Phased Out By 2012 - someone tell Kinky, he's still running for guv on the idea of getting rid of the TAKS!

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Teacher's Aide Suspended In The Midst Of Investigation

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Teacher Arrested For Relationship With Student

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Laura Bush backs Obama on education speech

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Texas native mentioned in President Obama's speech to children speaks out

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Ron Kirk: Opposition To Obama Speech Embarrassing

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Dallas students ignore controversy, applaud Obama speech - proves my point that the content was not what was objectionable but, the subtle personality-based seduction of youth and children to "like" Obama.

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Obama and DOE Violate Federal Law Enlisting Kids in Schools to Push Agenda

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Dallas principal who left amid scandal now head of Manor school

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At Westlake Academy, bullies run the school

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Rick Perry understands concern over Obama's speech to school kids

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Perry ‘troubled’ by rollout of Obama school speech

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Cabinet fans out to schools nationwide

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Parents ask to excuse kids from Obama speech - don't ask, take 'em out of school!

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N. Texas Schools Divided On Obama's School Speech

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White House revises proposed lesson plan on Obama speech

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An 'Obama sickout' in schools next week?

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Plainview educators voice frustration to congressman

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Fund balance for Brownwood schools larger than expected - but they're all broke!

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Student graduates in a class by herself

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Father of Texas football player says heat was factor in son's death

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One-Third Of West ISD School’s Students Out Sick Monday

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Dallas school reform group says it's here for the long haul

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Saavedra says goodbye to Houston ISD, Q&A

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Dropout crisis hurts Texas economy

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Pratt: Schools have a Priority problem more than a Money problem

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Pratt echo: Texas schools act poor but spend freely

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Rockwall ISD opens school year with new aquatic center, new school, renovated stadium - but Texas government schools are broke?!

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Big new high school in Prosper builds small-town pride

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Texas school districts to receive $62.8 million in disaster funds

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Some districts slow to follow new law on grades

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Lutz on WFAA: Elected School Board should be thanked, not attacked

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Schools in competition for best scoreboard - told you so, & we foot the bill

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Ex-Orangefield coach gets 10 years for relationship with student

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Arlington schools suffer from rash of burglaries

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Houston ISD trustees get $13.5 million each for school renovations

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Katy ISD Votes To Terminate Coaches

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School districts tighten standards for substitutes

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Money For... Nothing

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New School Nutrition Rules Begin Today in Government Schools

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High school dropouts cost Texas $9.6B over their lifetimes, TAMU study finds

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Editorial: Kids must be expected to learn despite challenges

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Texas students improve SAT math scores but slip in reading, writing

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Teacher swap under way in Pflugerville, Scotland

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No shots, no school? Not quite.

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State extends student immunization deadline

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Hidalgo superintendent named to NCLB commission

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North Texas School District Bans Sexting

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Texas teachers getting bonuses

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Houston school board used old trick to avoid spirit of the law

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A year later, the effectiveness of mandatory high-school athlete steroid testing under microscope

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Houston ISD picks San Diego's Terry Grier as new superintendent

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Conservative history idea for state ed slammed

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Texas ACT scores up for fourth year

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Gov hopefuls offer few details on education

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'Commended' should be TAKS goal, educators say

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School books in Texas may get browner - is "browner" even a word?

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McKinney schools chief stepping down

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Appeals court upholds Waxahachie  ban in Edwards T-shirt case

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Bible Added to Texas Curriculum

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Packing for school at Harrold ISD: Guns on campus one year later

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Burleson ISD Reverses Teen's MySpace Demerits

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Brownwood ISD to soak taxpayers with a 5 cent increase

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Study: Homeschoolers score 37 points higher, costs average $500 compared to $10,000 at public school - sadly those who take on this responsibility still are forced to pay for the public school waste and failure.

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Report shows Valley schools have more staff than other districts

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El Paso (Clint ISD) teacher held in prostitution sting

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ACLU calls for ban on corporal punishment in schools

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Frisco ISD to fight RECOGNIZED rating, district feels entitled to Exemplary rating it did not earn

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Investigation of Morton Ranch (Katy ISD) football program continues

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Ex-La Joya schools employee cleared in sex abuse case

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New state law mandates teacher pay raises

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Plano special education teacher accused of sexually assaulting 14-year-old student

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A master's degree does not mean a more effective teacher

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Many Dallas-Fort Worth graduates struggle in college

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Three Morton Ranch football coaches under investigation

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UT prepares teachers for Bible classes

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Texas laws move high school PE in wrong direction

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Schools Worry Students Not Immunized Properly

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Saavedra: Feds are wrong on Houston ISD ratings

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Eighty percent of Texas schools and districts meet AYP

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Social studies curriculum draft released

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Austin ISD fails to meet Federal standards

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Houston ISD fails to meet Federal progress standards

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Schools had help on exams

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Editorial: Texas needs rigor, clarity in measuring students

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Candy Cane Discrimination Case Heads Back to Court

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Lewisville cheerleaders get 3-game suspension for drug use at camp

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Brownsville ISD superintendent disputes allegations at termination hearing

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Opinion: Failed schools must fail

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"Exemplary" Schools Multiply Under Projected Measurement System

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McLeroy swats back criticism on social studies

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Texas Legislature forms Katy task force on education

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Editorial: New school standards overrate 'improvement'

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Lewisville H.S. cheerleaders investigated after report of possible drug use

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Andrews ISD looking at ways to shore up completion rate

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ACLU expresses concern over creationism in schools - yes, but remember the ACLU thinks even saying Amen is equal to forced conversion

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Comanche ISD taxpayers to equip every student, including Kindergarten!, with a laptop computer - but I thought these schools were under funded and struggling just to keep the lights on!?

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Austin educators get bonuses

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Editorial: Debit cards for improving report cards - the idiocy continues

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Schools revamp swine flu plans for fall

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Texas school districts must decide whether to implement new graduation requirements

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New Texas rule on predicted passing boosts TAKS ratings

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Accountability Ratings release: Find your school here

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Number of ‘exemplary’ campuses doubles statewide

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Texas education chief suggests voluntary ban on hiring dropouts

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Ratings based on progress, not just passing, help Houston ISD

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Texas schools spend little, borrow lots

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State cuts money from steroid tests for UIL athletics

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State investigation questions charter spending

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San Antonio ISD expecting academically unacceptable rating

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State Board advised to keep religion out of social studies - they're right to have disdain for "secular humanist"

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Donna ISD school board OKs more job cuts

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Gov. Perry: Texas is Preparing Young Texans to Compete in the Global Marketplace

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Longtime Brazoswood H.S. football coach, L.Z. Bryan, dies at 80

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Lawsuit: Georgetown ISD didn't stop boy's bullying

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San Antonio ISD considers closing 21 schools

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Lubbock ISD, other area districts have most teaching positions filled - so what's all the talk about shortages and needing to pay more?

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Texas school districts to get funds they were counting on for raises

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Dropout figures carry more weight in ratings

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Texas among four states to narrow achievement gap

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Texas starts school funding Race to the Top

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Texas’ tight budget squeezes districts’ homestead exemption

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Texas’ $3.2 billion education stimulus plan OK’d by Feds

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Too Many Erasures Tipped TEA To DISD Middle School Cheating

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Waco ISD paying new teachers over $39,000 per year

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Cy-Fair ISD cuts bus service for some students

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Re-Tests Show Massive Cheating In DISD Middle School TAKS Test

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Recently retired Mansfield ISD superintendent dies in South Dakota motorcycle crash

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Dallas ISD expands Lang MS investigation -- scores for 8th graders drop

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San Antonio ISD trustees hire marketing firm to improve district's image - your tax dollars at work in the oh-so broke public schools!

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Bios of American, Texas heroes won't be yanked, state board member promises

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Judson teacher's trial ends with conviction

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School Districts Looking To Rescind Extra Homestead Exemption

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TEA releases 2008 dropout information

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Keller schools contesting 'acceptable' ranking

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Plainview school board votes to table drug-testing policy

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Amarillo ISD gives away 1000 used PCs - I thought these districts were broke

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Ex-athlete says high schools teach how to win instead of how to live

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Teacher accused of improper relationship turns himself in

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Opinion: Teachers must unionize

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Audit finds improper spending in Houston ISD

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New Waller ISD Stadium: seats 10,000, has three-level press box & field turf - I thought public education was broke!?

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Smooth transition for new education board leader

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Robstown School Board Still Wants Superintendent Removed

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KIPP to open three Houston-area schools in 2010

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New Home judging teams win first, third in international competition

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Former Brownsville ISD teacher indicted on child porn charges

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The Culture Wars' New Front: U.S. History Classes in Texas

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Fort Worth Teacher Resigns During Sex-With-Student Investigation

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Texas set to update 1997 social studies curriculum

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Irving ISD narrows list of firms in search for superintendent

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Gov. Perry Names Lowe Chair of Texas State Board of Education, more

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Advisers: Cesar Chavez given too much attention in class studies

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Former Bridge City teacher enters plea for improper relationship

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Former West School Secretary Indicted In Theft From Student Activities Fund

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Free Speech Case Filed Against Waxahachie ISD Goes To Court, more

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Grand jury brings no charges in EPISD Superintendent Lorenzo García case

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State to close Austin's Pearce Middle School

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Free Speech Case Filed Against Waxahachie ISD Goes To Court, more

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Texas adds electives, scales back required classes in high school

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Fired high school ROTC instructor gets probation, fines

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Groups protest Wichita Falls ISD over minority hiring

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Houston Chronicle's Lib Faulkenberg wants Bob Craig as head of SBOE - that tells you a lot

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Update: Pratt top-level confidential source: Bob Craig, Rino-Lubbock, "not even in the running" for SBOE chairman, Bob Craig, RINO-Lubbock, discussed as possible SBOE chairman

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Conservative eyed for State Board of Education - note Craig not mentioned as a conservative, actually not mentioned at all

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Lib take on God-fearing conservatives on the SBOE

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Round Rock teacher to run for state education board

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Corpus Christi ISD’S top Texas history teachers to receive recognition

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Perry beats feds' deadline for school funds

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Judge grants temporary restraining order in Beaumont school demolition

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Ex-Principal Avoids Prison Time In Graphic Text Message Case

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Texas only state yet to apply for stabilization funds - good for Texas

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Editorial: A stubborn and costly fight to keep secrets (Austin ISD)

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Austin school district sues to keep search documents secret - government working for you!

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Burglars take $40,000 worth of computers from Amarillo ISD school

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Highland Park Schools To Stop Ranking Students

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Schreiner Univ. to offer 1 year "masters" degrees for teachers

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Modified TAKS Approved by US Dept. of Education

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Update: Citizen involvement pays off: Cy-Fair keeps tax breaks & cuts jobs, Cy-Fair school board to vote on whether to keep homestead exemption

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Texas rejects plan to adopt national school standards

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Fort Worth schools to lay off 95

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Ex-Bryan teacher gets 40 years for child indecency

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Mercedes school district names new superintendent

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Edinburg taps finance guru as new schools superintendent

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US Supreme Court rules school districts must pay for special education from private institutions if public school doesn't provide services

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Texas not sold on education standards

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"Stimulus funds": Arilington ISD to get $11 million for Title 1 campuses - how does this help fix the economy?

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Could another school funding lawsuit be brewing?

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Hey, Cy-Fair Voters: Take a Hike!

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Tahoka school board member and city councilwoman arrested for organized crime

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8th-graders at Dallas' Lang Middle School will retake math TAKS because of 'irregularities'

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Early college high school has its successes

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Lutz: Texas should adopt and measure learning expectations for technology

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Houston ISD puts off union wage issue

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Congressional move to redirect Texas education money falters - even Texas democrats serving in Congress don't support Texas and its sovereign rights. What a shame!

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Islamic Center backed Charter School to open in Coppell in former Lutheran church buildings

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Killeen school allowing service dog to attend classes with student

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Cy-Fair ISD To Sell Ads On Buses

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Mesquite ISD says accounting problems corrected in athletic department

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Ex-Gladewater student gets deferred adjudication for school arson

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Declining quality of American education

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Austin freezes hiring for elementary school teachers

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Former Gilmer teacher and coach goes to prison

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Norman: New Texas school finance plan has major flaws - As long as there is any limit to the amount of money public schools can take from taxpayers to fund their wishes, each plan will be called flawed.

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Dallas Considers Opening Over-Age School

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Former Gilmer teacher gets 10 years in prison for sexual assault of child

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Search for new Houston ISD chief to be secret

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Levelland ISD Superintendent resigns

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Dallas ISD has to borrow $100 million for expenses

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Geren: Some struggling with accountability demands

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3 middle schoolers to pay more than $8K for graffiti

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Alvin woman accused of stealing $17,000 from PTO

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Cy-Fair teacher accused of taking cell phone pics under girls' dresses

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Texas Education Agency names deputy associate commissioner

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Vote on Cy-Fair ISD revenue plan on hold

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Teacher Shortgages Looming - Texas A&M Bracing For It

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Samuell High student says he lied about having sex with teacher

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Cy-Fair ISD considering major tax increase

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Wellman-Union ISD school booster, 36 year old woman, confesses to having sexual relations with minors

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Fort Worth ISD Considers All-Girls School

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Researcher: Students need repetition to learn complex concepts

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Alvin ISD to fire bus driver over alleged relationship with Manvel High student

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Texas governor in a dilemma over education board pick

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Cavanaugh: Student success can't be measured by faulty testing

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Lawyer calls for Dallas ISD officer's badge after gun incident

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Would-be Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD trustee deemed ineligible for seat

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TEA reports improved TAKS results for grades 3, 5 and 8

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Former Texas High School Coach Indicted

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Cy-Fair teacher suspended, accused of taking lewd photos

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Grapevine preschool teacher accused of inappropriately touching girl

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235 jobs cut at specialized Dallas ISD campuses

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'Alternative' diplomas may not help grads get into some colleges

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Dallas ISD Teachers won't be fired for low Classroom Effectiveness Index scores - exactly why we need competition and to get rid of the monopoly

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Angleton High fire forces evacuation

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Temple ISD school may close due to academically unacceptable ratings

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Houston ISD schools set for jump in top ratings

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Changes to immunization requirements when students return to school

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Mexia schools to drop suit over state school students brought to district property

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Ysleta ISD cuts, reassigns jobs

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Swine flu cases suspected among 100-plus sick from Mesquite school

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Former Waco Middle School Teacher Pleads Guilty In Student Sex Case

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Officials investigating widespread sickness at Mesquite school

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School accountability bill to governor

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DFW schools' later closing dates cause headaches

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Irving ISD honors former Superintendent Jack Singley

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TAKS delays graduation for 400 in El Paso ISD

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Dallas ISD trustees vote to cut jobs at magnets, learning centers

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Principal accuses El Paso ISD superintendent of assault

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Pre-K funding bill still alive but Fort Worth may not see benefit

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Hearing today on disputed Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD board seat

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A win for Texas students

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El Paso ISD taps into fund, puts freeze on spending

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The Colony school welcomes home National Geography Bee champ

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Evidence of two explosive devices found on Atascocita HS campus, two students in custody

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Locally Misinformed: Schools have a habit is misleading residents

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Teacher union, AFT, says teacher pay raise is "fake"

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135 swine flu cases in Cameron County, numbers soar Valley-wide

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Swine flu closes Houston ISD elementary for rest of semester

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Lockney Teen Pleads Guilty To Major School Fire

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School districts keep tabs on funding bill

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$1 million bond for teacher accused of having sex with student

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Mansfield high school student Positive for TB

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Teacher Finds Child Porn On Boy's Cell Phone In Class

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Painful lessons relearned at Brazosport ISD

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Bomb threat at Nederland High School determined to be hoax

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Texas Gets New PE Syllabus

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Feds Investigate Sex Discrimination In Grapevine-Colleyville ISD

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Houston ISD Teacher arrested in alleged pistol-whipping

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Bangs ISD learns DNA is not a match to those suspected of $83,000 in vadalism damage

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Bosqueville ISD Principal Cut as District Faces Woes

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Congressional Panel Hears About Killeen Teen’s Death At School

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100 laptop computers stolen from Round Rock School District

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Pittsburg High School teacher accused of providing alcohol to minor

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Waco High officials consider fence, closed lunches to improve security and keep kids on campus - I considered everyday in public school as being in prison, Waco just wants to make it official.

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Killeen schools won't give spankings

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McKinney ISD approves random drug testing

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More, 12, sick of H1N1 swine flu at Houston elementary school

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Alief teacher accused of bribing student

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New state bill keeps public educator's records private

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Birthdate secrecy ‘sunshined’, Duncan & senate back away

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State halts one merit pay plan for teachers, keeps newer program

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Houston ISD elementary school has half out due to flu

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Over $1.3 billion in local bonds passed in May 9th election - a complete list  (pdf) - 29% of school bond elections failed to pass

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Teacher's union says Duncan bill (SB10) makes teachers insurance guinea pigs

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Dallas school trustees consider special election in November to fill board seats

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School district revokes pocketknife punishment

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Ten-hut! Boot camp classes become available to Hutto ISD teachers

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Shortage of teachers in Texas but only in certain areas

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District Suspends Lorena JV Coach Accused Of Inappropriate Contact

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Missing School Principal Now Home; Police Aren’t Saying Where He Was

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Some Dallas-area schools use state college-prep money elsewhere - yes, and we all want LESS public school accountability right?

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Central Texas Elementary School Principal Still Missing Tuesday

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Mullin ISD 4th grade student has art work in Alley Oop comic strip

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La Vega ISD Issues Brief Statement After High School Attack

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Athens ISD bond vote fails

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Mesquite schools' proposal would let students score days off for passing TAKS, classes

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Marshall school board's decision may cost taxpayers dearly

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Former Henderson ISD booster club president charged with felony crime

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Coppell charter school to teach Arabic - teaching Arabic is great, teaching in Arabic is not. This sound like a good program.

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Houston ISD's next chief may face power struggle with board

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Voters approve most suburban school bond proposals; Wylie ISD's fails

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State education board ducks changes

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Galveston school turns to movies duo to shortage of substitute teachers - and this is new how? Ever had a coach as a teacher?

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Warrant Issued for West ISD School Secretary in $25,000 Activity Fund Theft

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Flu? 20 students & teachers fall ill at Nolanville Elementary School

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House defeats bill that would sunset SBOE

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Elected State Board of Education facing unprecedented attacks

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Dallas ISD mistake to cast Dallas charter schools

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Former Alto ISD Employee Indicted For Improper Relationship With Student

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Phone call prompts lockdown at Silsbee High School

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Beamont ISD must re-establish trust on bond issue

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Teenage School Vandalism Suspect Found Asleep In Concession Stand

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Police Now Investigating Possible Theft From West High School Activities Fund

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Former Temple School Bus Driver Charged With Indecency With A Child

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Students try to shut down North East ISD

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William McKenzie: Lowering school bar makes no sense

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Fort Bend ISD celebrates 50th anniversary

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Judge rules Galveston public schools desegregated

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Bus driver in Aldine ISD death also hit a student in 2007

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Tivy students face hazing charges

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Senate votes to lift charter schools cap

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TEA Has New TAKS Advice

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Women superintendents a rarity in West Texas

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Editorial: Allowing textbook money to be spent on technology

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Dallas ISD trustees were not authorized to extend terms, AG rules

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Audit by Ysleta ISD finds former schools chief violated state law

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As Much As $20,000 Missing From West ISD Activity Fund

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More Students Pass TAKS Math

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Editorial: Resignation not enough for any teacher accused of having sex with students

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More schools closing due to swine flu

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UIL considers rescheduling meets

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Texas Legislature passes education bills that take emphasis off TAKS, put focus on college readiness

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Texas House passes bill for commission study to evaluate size of Dallas ISD

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Senate rejects fine arts requirement

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Classes resume and TAKS testing begins in Fort Bend ISD

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Gum might be answer to TAKS

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Heavy rains lead local school districts to delay TAKS testing

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Hundreds of students miss TAKS, 17 schools closed

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School punishment bill passes

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Closing Texas' math/science teacher gap

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House, Senate committees send school accountability to floors

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Fort Worth Student Jailed For Skipping School

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Lutz: Why the elites dislike the State Board of Education

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SBOE to educators: Honor American values

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Dallas ISD officials hope to learn from top-ranked Sunset High

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A&M Consolidated Students Protest in the Name of Safety

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Midland teacher arrested for improper student/educator relationship

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Ex teacher gets probation for punching kid

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Bridge City ISD teacher under investigation

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Shallowater teacher suspended after TAKS irregularities

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Galveston ISD one step closer to desegregation

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Texas mom quotes Bible, wins dress code battle

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Dallas ISD Tells 600 Teachers To Get Better Or Get Fired - is that all? Only 600?

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Former teacher charged with child porn free on bail

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Study: Grad rates up in Austin, nation

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Dallas ISD graduation rate is improving, study finds

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Police: Cleburne school athletic trainer had more than 1,000 pictures of children

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Senate passes bill addressing lack of math, science teachers

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Sanity Momentarily Prevails in Texas Senate

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Carroll ISD Coach, Administrator Charged With Public Lewdness

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Schools, Parents Respond After Pills Send 9 Students to Hospital in Waco

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Attempt by Senators to Neuter SBOE

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Senate passes truth-in-grading bill

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More School Districts Find Cracks In Stadium Light Poles

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Lubbock ISD hires Houston ISD's chief academic officer

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School bus struck by 18-wheeler in Jacksonville, all but 3 injured have been released from hospital

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State questions Houston ISD’s spending on rodeo gala tickets

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Editorial: Austin should flunk 'no-fail grading'

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Editorial: Texas House should expand pre-K offerings

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TEA spokeswoman says sanctions against Hallsville ISD are 'not likely'

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Family of student reportedly assaulted claims negligence on Beaumont ISD bus driver's part

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Texas lawmakers debate stripping education board of authority over curriculum, textbooks

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Family of student reportedly assaulted claims negligence on Beaumont ISD bus driver's part

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Senate panel says no more minimum grades in school

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Abilene ISD superintendent Polnick stepping down

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Wichita Falls ISD names new superintendent

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Cops ticket principal for Judson ISD elementary school noise

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Editorial: Plano's grading policy and the law of unintended consequences

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Jennifer Burton, indicted Orangefield teacher, resigns

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Former Port Isabel coach pleads guilty to injury to a child

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Compromise changes Texas teaching of evolution, caves to evolution dogmatists

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Dallas schools must cut funding at 34 campuses to qualify for aid

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$100,000 damage, San Antonio pre-dawn school fire

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Plano ISD dumbing down public education to new lows

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Ex-teacher draws prison in sex cases

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Orange County grand jury indicts female Orangefield teacher

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Reported weapon that led to lockdown at Creekview High in Carrollton was cellphone

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La Joya schoolteacher accused of fondling first grader during class

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School boards should stop trying to hide names of coaching applicants

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Parents back bill to require recess in Texas elementary schools

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Senate OKs crackdown on replacing fine arts, other classes with TAKS test preparation

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Dallas school paddling case never prosecuted

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Lawmakers want to change the way some schools tutor students for TAKS test

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TAKS study could not routinely yank students from class

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Poteet athletics head to sue if not rehired

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Report: Dallas coach beat student 21 times with paddle

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Bills in Texas Legislature would create 'abstinence-plus' sex education

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Midland Lee football coach Quisenberry suspended due to student treatment allegation

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Senate panel recommends bill to exempt refugees from TAKS

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EPA to test air around 6 Texas schools

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DFW Tops Growth Rates for Asian Students

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Austin schools ask for some Social Security relief

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Education stimulus funds in question

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Lubbock charter school, Rise Academy, continues to out perform surrounding districts

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Education board alters state science standards

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Evolution foes score split decision in State Board of Education

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Austin school district considers hiring for-profit company to open new alternative school for 8th & 9th graders

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Texas Science Fair Winners to Earn Scholarships to Attend Governor's Science and Technology Champions Academy

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Are lucrative TAKS rewards cost effective? - is much of anything in public education truly cost effective? I don't think much is.

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Split vote upholds Texas education board ruling to ax evolution 'strengths and weaknesses' rule

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Over half the House signs on to PreK bill

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Irving ISD uses online textbooks, so unused copies state must buy sit in a warehouse - and people think government schools are a good idea!?

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Lockney: Three months after fire, teachers and students try for business as usual

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Dallas ISD Board Members Outraged Over Cage Fights

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Fighting in cage 'was the norm' at South Oak Cliff High School

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Former Denison HS principal named in cage fighting allegations at Dallas high school

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Star-Telegram editorial writer admits public education had improved little but then supports the same-old solutions and opposes new ideas

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Let the sun shine on school spending

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Dallas ISD records show school held 'cage fights'

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2 boys accused in Abilene school vandalism costing $200K

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Plano School PTA Treasurer Convicted Of Embezzlement

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Don't penalize Texas students for any belief about science, bill says

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Education debate triggers emotional reaction

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Does accountability system offer path to a career or a track to nowhere?

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Texas Senate, House panels take up bills to improve student testing

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Crawford ISD to layoff 3 teachers to meet budget needs

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East Texas teacher on leave after bigamy arrest

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Valley districts looking for new leaders

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Davis files bill that would break up Dallas school district

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Court affirms Texas' schools moment of silence law

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Texas Teacher Retirement Fund Losses Bigger Than Expected

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More Texas children getting free school meals

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Lawmakers overhaul TAKS

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Lawmaker wants to pay students for good grades - & goofiness continues

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Texas suspends fund that saves schools money

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Money troubles cause problems for Rio Hondo ISD

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C-SPAN recognizes documentaries by Ozen students

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Judge: Mexia State School-Mexia ISD Dispute Falls To Lawmakers

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Mexia School Showdown: Case Goes To Court

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Mexia ISD under fire for policy regarding state school students

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Charter school in San Marcos could be closed - they should be closed

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Superintendent candidate ready to take over AISD

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Charter schools top Texas' list of troubled public campuses - that's the point, they can be shut down easily whereas traditional districts that fail cannot

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Big sticks left in school accountability bill

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Lawmakers aim to scrap rule that schools must spend 65 percent on instruction

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Former Humble educator receives national recognition

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Alto coach resigns amid allegations of improper relationship with student

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TEA will supply East Central with math-teacher grant

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Obama, taking on unions, backs teacher merit pay

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Pearland high schools cancel events as precaution after shooting

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Houston ISD teacher arrested for drugs back at school

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Education board leader set to challenge evolution

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After changes, Texas schools still need accountability

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Parents and community leaders debate school accountability

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Bill Would Require Excused Absences For Voting

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Serve All: Charter schools can help students of varied backgrounds

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Schools Feel Junk Food Removal Financially

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Legislators may make TAKS a thing of the past

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Two more TB cases surface at Del Rio Middle School

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Plano ISD Plans City-Wide Wi-Fi For All - and this district is having layoffs due to being broke!

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Hereford ISD Student Information Lost

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Mesquite School Sec'y Questioned About Missing $60,000

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Former Lamar teacher charged with improper relationship with a student

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Legislators say current sex ed law inadequate

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Money for mid-sized schools finance fix in question

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Kindness moves Lockney Students into new buildings

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State Sen. Jane Nelson wants PE classes beefed up

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El Paso ISD administration salaries well above state average

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El Paso school district says better student test scores justify administrators' salaries

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Perks add to school superintendents' bottom lines

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Cussing at students gets El Paso teacher suspended

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Lubbock County's Roosevelt ISD honored for best Latino education in Texas

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Number of homeless students rising in Dallas-area districts

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TEA monitoring Brownsville ISD probe

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Dallas School District Caught Providing Phony Credentials to Foreign Teachers

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Texas lawmakers' plan would replace standardized tests

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Lamar Consolidated teacher accused of 'inappropriate relationship'

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Austin ISD superintendent pick Meria Carstarphen to visit schools

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Student arrested for false report, caused lockdown at Amarillo high school

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Parents clamor to get their kids into prestigious charter school - more proof school choice is wanted and needed

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Lamar CISD says teacher admits relationship with pupil

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Arlington parents camp out at school HQ, show real demand for school choice

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Student achievement rising in urban Texas schools

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School stimulus money raises questions

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Levelland teen charged with threatening classmates with BB gun - the charged girl is likely a victim

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Union to protest Edinburg school district

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Study says sex education 'shockingly poor' in many Texas school districts - & yet the kids seem to figure it out!

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Few see mayor as Dallas schools chief

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Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk says Texas should assess school district governance

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Mayor Tom Leppert exploring takeover of Dallas school district

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Lubbock Co. Democrat leaders come to the defense of SBOE member, Republican, Bob Craig

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19,000 Texas High School Athletes Tested; 7 Found Using Steroids

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Plainview ISD considers student drug testing

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Galveston ISD will cut 55 admin, support jobs

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Bells ISD will construct new track, stands in football complex - you thought they were all broke

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Superintendent in St. Paul, Minn., a finalist for Austin ISD job

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25 Year-Olds Can Go Back To High School In Dallas

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In Austin, new optimism for changes to school finance this session

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Hinojosa cryptically hints at a new $15 million deficit reduction (Dallas ISD)

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Former El Paso ISD trustee Sal Mena pleads guilty today to public corruption charges

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Robstown suspends school chief

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Galveston ISD to consider laying off administrators - why has it taken this long?

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San Antonio ISD leader says consolidation means survival

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Cedar Hill High School coach resigns over improper relationship

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Bilingual, bi-cultural school to open in Austin

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Three Cy-Fair schools locked down after confrontation

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Fire breaks out in Humble ISD school

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Former La Joya elementary school employee accused of touching students

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99-year-old ex-teacher helps class reach goal

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Editorial: KIPP is no ordinary public school

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Dallas ISD blog: Feds reject request to use Title I money for salaries

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Conroe's York Junior High receives bomb threat

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Editorial: Search for Austin school superintendent is corrupted

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Brownsville school leaders' spat goes to court

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Harlingen superintendent's salary raised to $200,000

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Hand grenade causes Euless elementary school evacuation

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Should student-athletes accused of crimes be suspended from their teams?

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Teachers Want Bigger School Budget

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Another school cancels classes due to mass illness

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Three Comfort football coaches resign plus two teacher wives

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Edgewood board majority makes disturbing decision

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Science teachers cautiously cheering TEKS updates

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TEA reprimands RGC school district on spending

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Texas school reformers try to learn lessons from Finland

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Editorial: DISD right to get tough on truants

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Saavedra’s big regret? HISD’s dropout rate

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Study finds Dallas-area school remedial programs lag behind most other Texas districts

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Teacher union urges HISD to pick academic chief to lead

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Saginaw teacher faces TEA hearing

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Comptroller's Study Finds Alto & Jacksonville ISD Tax Rates Unacceptable

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Assistant principal's defense concludes in Orange courtroom

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Ex-Katy band official charged with child sex assault

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More Texas Students Taking AP Tests

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Beaumont Enterprise files suit to obtain test scores from Port Arthur charter school

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Lubbock ISD's own police dept. refused to send officers to predominantly black high school

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Houston ISD faculty drug arrests: Good for the Goose, Sucks for the Gander?

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Houston schools chief plans to retire

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Mercedes schools to replace superintendent - again

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Ex-Alief teacher admits child sex assaults, officers say

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Approximately 200 affected by Del Rio Middle School TB case

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Appeals court hears challenge to Texas schools' moment of silence

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Court hears Christian school's bid to join UIL

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TAB: Toughen up education standards

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TEA gets stay on court-ordered bilingual ed plan

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Fake money showing up in Katy school lunch lines

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Study: Texas lags in support of newest teachers

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Uniform GPA proposal on the table again

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Former Rusk ISD Nurse Charged With Improper Relationship With Student

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Brownwood assistant coach steps down, accused of striking student

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Houston School District Pays $31.4 Million in Bonuses

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SBOE flip-flopping creating confusion

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Report: Hispanics underreached in education - what does that mean and what's it got to do with being "Hispanic"?

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What does the proposed Federal "stimulus" package mean for Dallas-area schools?

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Midland schools could benefit from stimulus package

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Stimulus Includes Millions for Local ISDs

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Bilingual education could grow as an issue for the 81st Legislature

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SBOE member Cargill not happy with all science curriculum changes

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Plano ISD to cut staff due to multi-million dollar budget deficit

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Judson ISD fiasco needs scrutiny from D.A.

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Bill Would Dump Some Abstinence Language From Public School Health Curriculum Requirements, Add More Medically Sound Requirements

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Bill Would Allow Vouchers For Special Education Students To Attend Private Schools

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Brownwood board to discuss coach's alleged attack on player

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Scientists gawk at curriculum tweaks

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School on Saturday? For Galveston students, yes

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Socorro school district guard bars reporter from public meeting

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Former Judson ISD Officials Slam Report

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Bill: Shut the evac shelter schools

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Bill Would Close Much Abused Loophole When It Comes To Releasing The Names Of Finalists For Superintendent Positions

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Andrews ISD Names New Superintendent

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Assistant principal charged with DWI

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Lanier High School Teacher Arrested for Misappropriated School Funds

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Floydada & Lockney ISD's talk merger

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$3.77 million grant from Gates Foundation to help fund Dallas ISD academic database

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Arlington trustees to consider standardized dress policy for students

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Needville kindergartner wins battle to keep hair long - he looks like a girl.

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Texas education board debates teaching of evolution

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State Board of Ed split as science vote nears

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Vote could affect teaching of evolution in Texas

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Appointments rile state education board members, more

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Arlington school district wants residents to tell legislators about funding woes - no amount of funding will EVER be enough for these folks

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State ed board to vote on evolution instruction

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Legislators face big test on TAKS reform, End-of-course tests being phased in to replace TAKS

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State To Pay Lockney Insurance Deductible

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Lockney students learning to cope in church classrooms after fire

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Update: Fire was arson, Fire damages Rio Grande City school

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2008–09 Salaries and Benefits in Texas Public Schools Teacher Report from the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) & Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) - pdf

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Rowlett High student accused of bringing bomb to school

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State Education Board Seeks Textbook Money

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Pampa High School Vandalized

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Another Houston ISD elementary teacher arrested after drug search

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Update: Two Teenage Girls Arrested in Connection with Lockney High School Arson, Lockney ISD's high school destroyed by fire, arson suspected

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Task force: $70M for AISD facilities

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Former Lubbock Teacher Pleads Guilty To Felony Theft

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Lee leaves Teacher Retirement System board, Houston investor who quit board had gambling debt

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Rating system may help Texas schools make grade - this is not good

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Programs for limited-English kids get mixed grades

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Don't Degrade: State shouldn't discount value of career courses

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Financial squeeze may hit textbooks

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Galveston district considers closing campuses

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Elgin ISD Teachers Aide Arrested for Child Porn

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Ex-Teacher McCamey ISD charged with improper relationship

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Mansfield bus driver accused of threatening students over cookie crumbs

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Arson destroys library, computer-lab, 2 classrooms at Port Arthur school

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Houston ISD bonus pay plan puzzles teachers

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Former North Shore math instructor indicted on child pornography count

 

 

 

 
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