Tag Archive: Mike Morath

SBOE Recap: Charters Schools, TEA Complaints, & Social Studies TEKS

Publish Date: April 18, 2025

Eagle-eyed Hotline readers will wonder why we are jumping straight to a recap of the State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting without ever previewing the agenda. This is because without notice, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) ended a decades-long practice of hosting an in-person meeting with stakeholders to preview the agenda and ask questions about the items the board is...

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Court Greenlights Release of Delayed A-F Ratings — But the Fight Isn’t Over 

Publish Date: April 11, 2025

After months of legal back-and-forth, the Texas Education Agency has announced it will release the long-delayed A-F accountability ratings for the 2022-23 school year. This follows an April 3 ruling from the Texas 15th Court of Appeals, overturning a previous injunction that had blocked the release of the ratings.  The ratings, which reflect how school districts and campuses perform under...

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House Public Education Committee Hears Interim Charges 

Publish Date: August 16, 2024

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...

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Injunction Issued to Halt Controversial A-F labels  

Publish Date: August 16, 2024

This week, as the Texas House Committee on Public Education met to discuss private school vouchers that would syphon tax dollars from our public schools, a Travis County district court issued a temporary injunction to halt the release of the controversial A-F school ratings determined by the governor-appointed commissioner of education. Five public school districts petitioned the court to stop...

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