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After years of working exclusively in New Orleans, KIPP, the prominent charter school network, was approved Monday to expand upriver to start three schools in Baton Rouge. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education reports on yesterday’s House hearing on diversifying STEM education, which featured ACE’s Lorelle Espinosa among the witnesses Federal lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill that would give student loan borrowers the power to cancel that debt in bankruptcy A national study of college tuition discount rates has found that private colleges and universities offered incoming freshmen discounts higher than 50 percent during the last academic year and projects record high discounts this year A new report from the Urban Institute found that states give just 13 percent of child care assistance to student parents A USA Today op-ed talks about the “vital, practical” education students get with a liberal arts degree At a hearing Thursday​ , Rep.

Greg Abbott continue to push for merit” pay raises for teachers, a short-sighted idea that TSTA will continue to oppose in favor of an across-the-board pay raise. In many journalism institutions students are being taught about the online publications and online newspapers along with the printed newspapers.

Illness and low attendances are causing Texas school districts to close temporarily. While the TEA currently has the authority to take over HISD, the district’s future won’t be clear until after school ratings are released in August and the state investigation into board governance is finished.

The Texas State Teachers Association said in a press release that updated research by the National Education Association shows the average teacher salary in Texas is dropping farther behind the national average. Brister, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, also indicated he prefers incentives, such as merit-based teacher pay, over recommending a general increase in school funding.

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After years of working exclusively in New Orleans, KIPP, the prominent charter school network, was approved Monday to expand upriver to start three schools in Baton Rouge. We thank Senator Van Hollen for his leadership and introducing the Keep Our PACT Act that makes student opportunity a federal budget priority, especially when it comes to the targeted investments in education programs designed to help students in poverty, children with disabilities and those who are most in need.

If it had paid out 5{861a28a83dbc1b7b1b987fadc42b035b6421658f94937813ec8062e268c0f75a} of a four-year average market value, as many endowments try to, Texas schools would have received $720m more in 2018. Perhaps he does not like school due to external influences; i.e. bullying, difficult teachers, taunting by other students, or peer pressure.

The formal education is given by specially qualified teachers they are supposed to be efficient in the art of instruction. A former tenured LSU professor fired in 2015 for using vulgarity, and talking about her sex life and the sex lives of students in her elementary education classes, is urging a federal appellate court to reconsider her case.

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Christianity has been of the greatest importance to the USA since the time when the first settlers stepped on the Plymouth Rock. Plus, Boise State University student athletes will help mentor elementary school students during STEM Day on the Blue this Friday. The Texas House on Wednesday approved a provision pitched by Democrats that would require school districts to give all school employees pay raises using some of the extra money districts receive from a comprehensive school finance bill.

Starting this school year, the Piute School District put a portable Wi-Fi pack on a bus so students can do homework during long trips. The statistics say that students who study Christianity and Christian values at school are much less likely to engage in illegal activities such as underage drinking, promiscuous sex, and carrying arms.

Members of the State Board of Education have voted to pursue rules changes that would make the application process for new charter schools more transparent to the public and to local school district officials who are losing tax dollars to charter campuses.

Estacado High is one of 64 public middle schools and high schools in 32 states awarded a total of $67,000 to aid sports programs affected by tight budgets. Baton Rouge Magnet again clocked in as the top public school in its area and came in at fifth statewide behind four New Orleans area schools and No. 377 in the nation.

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For more than 30 years, Education Week has been the most respected voice in education journalism. After hearing compelling testimony from TSTA member Virginia Caldwell of Hutto ISD and other teachers, the Senate Finance Committee approved Senate Bill 3, which would give all classroom teachers an across-the-board $5,000 pay raise. The House Public Education Committee held its first meeting of the 86th Legislative session on Wednesday, January 30, 2019.

It closes loopholes in the Education Code that allow educators who engaged in inappropriate student-teacher relationships to resign from public schools and return to teaching in private schools. The Committee also heard House Bill 187 by Representative Reynolds that is bracketed to Fort Bend ISD and would require the district to change the way it elects its school board to provide for geographic representation.

Intermediate and final assessments are ensured to advance students to the next learning phase. The education establishment, including schools of education and textbook publishers, have largely pooh-poohed” the idea of knowledge, observed panelist Sonja Santelises, chief executive officer of the Baltimore public schools.

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It has created a lot of opportunities for the newspapers to provide breaking news more timely. Teachers with a lifetime certificate who get the ESL or Bilingual certification will now have to renew their certificates every five years. If the shutdown lasts for several months district finances for grants and federal funding may be affected for the coming year.

Over half a million dollars in grants and scholarships have been awarded to 30 students and 13 school communities. The Canyons Board … Read More..