Here are the STAAR changes effective with the 2025–2026 school year
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SBOE Recap: Charters Schools, TEA Complaints, & Social Studies TEKS
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...
Read More‘What Are Block Grants?’: Flexibility at the Expense of Equity
Our union is continuously monitoring developments with the Department of Education and proposed Trump Administration changes to how federal education funding and services are delivered to states. Recently, as several states have put forward proposals to “cut strings” tied to federal education dollars, we’ve fielded many questions from educators and parents about block grants and what they would mean for...
Read MoreAction Needed: SBOE to Review TEA’s Bible-Infused New Curriculum
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New Poll Shows Houston ISD Voters Don’t Have Faith in Miles, State’s Management
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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 MoreInjunction Issued to Halt Controversial A-F labels
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...
Read MoreTEA Rolls Out New School Safety System: Sentinel
On July 25, Governor Greg Abbott announced the launch of a new school safety system called Sentinel. This new platform-- designed to collect, process, store, and distribute school safety and security information-- is housed within the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and is a part of ongoing school safety and security improvement measures. We have written extensively about House Bill 3...
Read MoreThe Flaws in Texas’ English Proficiency Testing Hurt Our Students
English-learning students across Texas have faced an uphill battle with the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS). In 2018, the test was redesigned, and the shift to automated computer scoring has led to a troubling trend — drastically lower scores that don’t seem to reflect students' true abilities, according to a Texas Tribune analysis. For years, TELPAS was a...
Read MoreWhat STAAR Scores Actually Measure: Beyond the Classroom
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) recently released data on high school STAAR test results, showing an improvement in students’ performance on English II but remaining largely stagnant from the prior year and still catching up to pre-COVID levels. The Austin American-Statesman reported that, “Students who met grade level for the English I test remained at 54% this year, while the students...
Read MoreRelease of HB 1605 Instructional Materials Launches Fresh Concerns, of Biblical Proportions
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