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The Texas Education Agency ( TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States. [1] The agency is headquartered in the William B. Travis State Office Building in downtown Austin. [1] [2] Mike Morath, formerly a member of the Dallas Independent School District 's board of trustees, was ...
The board's role in Texas education is important, and hopefully Kinsey will treat the office with the respect it needs, said David DeMatthews, a University of Texas professor in the school's ...
Education in Texas. Texas has over 1,000 public school districts—all but one of the school districts in Texas are independent, separate from any form of municipal or county government. School districts may (and often do) cross city and county boundaries. Independent school districts have the power to tax their residents and to assert eminent ...
The TEA-developed resources are just one piece of House Bill 1605 — a bill the Texas Legislature passed last year that puts more power over classroom materials in the state education board’s ...
Houston Independent School District takeover. The Houston Independent School District takeover is a 2023 takeover of the state's largest school district by the Texas Education Agency, replacing the superintendent and elected board of trustees with a board of managers and a new superintendent appointed by the Texas commissioner of education.
Any major changes in the makeup of the state board would probably have an effect on its curriculum decisions for all Texas students, said Jacob Kirksey, a Texas Tech University education professor ...
July 1, 2024 at 8:15 AM. Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath has come under fire in recent years for approving charter schools with what critics say is too little oversight. The Texas State ...
Kentucky (1908) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [ 1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's 1896 ...