Austin ISD Enrollment Declines: What’s Really Driving the Drop and Why Public Education Must Be the Priority
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House Public Education Committee Hears Interim Charges
Legislative “Interim Charges”: What Are They and Why Do They Matter? The Texas Legislature meets once every two years for 140 days for its regular legislative session, during which the only bill it is required to pass and send to the governor’s desk to be signed into law is the budget for the next biennium. We became all too familiar...
Read More“Broken Promises’: A Chronicle of Charter School Failures
Given the recent approvals of four new charter schools by the State Board of Education this summer, we want to revisit the important research that has informed Texas AFT’s continued insistence on a charter school moratorium in this state. First, let’s start with the national education policy think tank Network for Public Education (NPE), which has released many relevant...
Read MoreSupport the CHARTER Act: Protect Public Education
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Finally. After 9 Years of Scandals, TEA Commissioner Appoints 2 Conservators to Supervise IDEA Charter Schools.
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