State looks at number of home-schoolers
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document.write("(Abilene Reporter-News © 09/03/2010) (Registration Required)\n
The Texas Education Agency has begun an investigation into the large number of high school students who have withdrawn from public school to begin home schooling in the past couple of years.\n\nMore ");
document.write("than 22,620 Texas secondary students were listed as withdrawing to home-school in 2008. That number represents a 24 percent increase from the year before. TEA officials have expressed concern that some p\n
Superintendent's Corner: Robotics curriculum is coming to Alpine ISD
\n(Alpine Avalanche © 09/03/2010)
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document.write("s Corner: Robotics curriculum is coming to Alpine ISD\n By Jose A. Cervantes / Superintendent—\n \n\n When the doors opened last week, students at Alpine ISD had a new elective added to their curricula, “Robotics Education Team Development Program.” In May 2010, Alpine ISD’s ");
document.write("technology director, Debbie Dodds, applied for a grant through the Texas Comput\n
Reform a term for avoiding school spending
\n(Bay City Daily Tribune © 09/03/2010)
Gov. Rick Perry?s latest press release on education in Texas is a masterpiece of doubletalk and deception.\n\n Speaking to a business and education group a few days ag");
document.write("o, Perry praised the progress made in improving Texas? education system.\n\n And do you know who made the difference in Perryspeak?\n\n It?s the reformers ?faithfully fighting for higher standards, stronger accountability, and a renewed fo\n
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\n(Beeville Bee-Picayune © 09/03/2010)
BISD makes D.A.T.E. grant awards
\n(Belton Journal © 09/03/2010)
District Awards for Teacher Excellence (DATE) were made on Aug. 16, at Belton High School, Belton Middle School, Lake Belton Middle School, and Waskow High Schoo");
document.write("l. The DATE grant was provided by state funds to establish a teacher incentive awards program that supports the establishment of district-wide goals and the implementation of a financial system for teachers to improve student achievement. \n
C-FB ISD approves network electronics for Freeman Elementary
\n(Carrollton Leader © 09/03/2010)<");
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The C-FB ISD School Board met last Thursday and approved all items on the consent agenda, most importantly new network electronics for Freeman Elementary School.Using a 2003 technology bond package, the school board approved the $79,287 purchase that will upgrade network electronics at the s");
document.write("chool and do away with the old electronics that have reached the end of their functional life. The school, w\n
3-D equipment helps school lessons take on a whole new dimension
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3-D equipment helps school lessons take on a whole new dimension\r\n\r\n10:40 PM CDT on Thursday, September 2, 2010\r\n\r\nBy JEFFREY WEISS / The Dallas Morning News \r\n jweiss@dallasnews.com \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n Vera Johnson's fift");
document.write("h-graders barely noticed as visitors walked into their classroom this week. They were far too focused on the disembodied head that seemed to float in the front of\n
College, La Porte ISD providing center for dual credit students
\n(Deer Park Progress © 09/03/2010)
A new San Jacinto College (SJC) Center in La Porte ");
document.write("is set to open in January 2011 to meet the needs of dual credit students from La Porte High School (LPHS).What was once a bank, and later the school district’s administration building, the facility will house six classrooms and an office area. The College and La Porte Independent School District (LP");
document.write("ISD) will work together to customize the dual cre\n
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document.write("lts for School Buses Yet | KTSM News Channel 9
\n(El Paso KTSM (NBC) 9 © 09/03/2010)
Students on school buses may not be buckled in for a while.\n\n\n\n\n Berenice Zubia is the Executive Director of Public Relations for EPISD, and she said," We currently do not have ");
document.write("any school buses with seat belts."\n\n\n\n\n Students in El Paso won't be able to "click it" on school buses for a while.\n\n\n\n\n Texas Education Agency budget cuts are keeping kids from buckling up on the b\n
A glittery evening in support of Arlington education
\n(Fort Worth Star-Telegram © 09/03/2010) (Registration Required)\n
By Faye Reederfreeder@ star-telegram.com\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n Celebrating Extraordinary Opportunities . Want to show your appreciation for the students and teachers of the Arlington school district? Then buy a ticket to this year's Starmaker night presented ");
document.write("by the Arlington ISD Education Foundation. Event chairwoman Jeanne Paull-Turner, along with Elizabeth Calvo, Susan Skaggs, Dale Sharpe-\n
National Archery In schools program upping the funds for archery in schools
\n(Lone Star Outdoor News © 09/03/2010)
Funding school programs is in an important step in operating porgrams to ");
document.write("benefit young minds, and possibly inflicting a change in their lives.\n\nBut, finding the funds to operate programs has become increasingly difficult that is why the Easton Foundations has partnered with the National Archery in the Schools Program to accelerate the already tremendous growth rate of th");
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Hallsville ISD owes $7.3 million");
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\n(Longview News © 09/03/2010)
Hallsville ISD owes $7.3 million to the state, a Texas Education\nAgency official said Thursday afternoon.\n \n \n\nThe school district did not pay its Chapter 41 funding for the\n2008-09 school year, agency spokeswoman DeEtta Cu");
document.write("lbertson said. The\ndistrict has said it will make the payment in full on Sept. 9,\nCulbertson said.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\nChapter 41 of the Texas Edu\n
BEST grants awarded to new teachers
\n(Rockwall County Herald Banner © 09/03/2010)
Rockwall — \n RISD students were scrambling back to classes this");
document.write(" past week. Along with the new students were a whole new slate of first-year teachers. At the beginning of each school year, the Rockwall ISD Education Foundation, Inc. presents each new teacher — new to Rockwall and new to the teaching profession — with a grant of $200. The funds are to");
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\n(Seguin Gazette Enterprise © 09/03/2010)
It?s two weeks into the start of school. Students are still learning their schedules and Matador Stadium has yet to see a home game.\n\nBut on the eighth day of class, Seguin ISD?s truancy officers are already busy.\n\nKirsten Legore, coor");
document.write("dinator of attendance and student support services, said her office tracks students who have moved or changed schools ? but also keeps count of the unexcused absence\n
Fouke lands $150,000 grant for after-school programs
\n(Texarkana Gazette © 09/03/2010) (Registration Required)\n
Fouke School District w");
document.write("ill see a boost in its after-school program after receiving a $150,000 grant from the Arkansas Department of Education. \n\nAssistant Principal Erica Cartwright said the program will serve 140 students in first to sixth grades. \n\n“We are very excited to be able to offer a whole new approach to the aft");
document.write("er-school program. Some of the specialized areas included are homework help a\n
TISD teaching model to go statewide
\n(Texarkana Gazette © 09/03/2010) (Registration Required)\n
Staff photo by Eric J. Shelton Texas Middle school students Stephen Jacobs, Katherine Doan, center, and DaVonte Witcher listen a");
document.write("s seventh-grade Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Academy instructor Donna Hunt answers questions concerning the STEM Academy during the student and teacher forum held Thursday afternoon at the TISD Service building. Texarkana Independent School District on\n
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