Texas Tech veterinary school plan annoys A&M System chief
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) A Texas Tech University System has proposed development of a veterinary school offering a doctoral program in Amarillo, citing student demand and industry needs in West Texas. The...
View ArticleTexas education board can't control school districts' textbook choices,...
AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas attorney general said Friday that the Board of Education can't tell local school districts what textbooks to adopt for their classrooms, interpreting existing state law as...
View ArticleTexas AG: Board of Ed can’t control local textbook adoption
The Texas attorney general said Friday that the State Board of Education can’t tell local school districts what textbooks to adopt for their classrooms, interpreting a state law passed in 2011 as...
View ArticleTexas AG: Board of Ed can't control local textbook adoption
The state attorney general says Texas' often-controversial Board of Education can't tell local school districts what textbooks to...
View ArticleSchools say onus to lighten bags lies with parents, government too
MUMBAI: The state government's recent diktat to schools to rid the weight off students' backs has added much burden on schools. A majority of them may not be able to go fully digital or provide...
View ArticleTexas may let academics check textbooks for factual errors
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas could allow university professors to fact-check textbooks approved for statewide use, after a ninth-grade world geography book referred to African slaves as "workers." The...
View ArticleRecent editorials from Texas newspapers
Houston Chronicle. Nov. 25, 2015. Cities on a hill: Mayors show leadership in their call for an informed approach on Syrian refugees. With more than two dozen mostly Republican governors around the...
View ArticleOil and gas taxes fill Texas school district coffers in 2014 (Texans for...
(Source: Texans for Education Reform) By Rhiannon Meyers The U.S. shale boom that fueled a drilling frenzy across Texas helped boost the budgets of the state's public schools last year, according to a...
View ArticleTaking students beyond their textbooks (University of North Texas Health...
(Source: University of North Texas Health Science Center) November 17, 2015 By Jan Jarvis Photo by Jill Johnson Southern Methodist University senior Sarah Levin stared at the body before her in the...
View ArticleBoard of Ed can't control local textbook adoption
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas attorney general said Friday that the Board of Education can't tell local school...
View ArticleTexas Tech School of Music Presents Band Spectacular (Texas Tech University)
(Source: Texas Tech University) WHAT: The Texas Tech University School of Music presents the Band Spectacular. This concert features all university bands in a continuous, non-stop performance....
View ArticleUniversity Lowers And Locks Tuition For Law School (Texas A&M University)
(Source: Texas A&M University) Texas A&M University has announced it will lower its full-time resident tuition and fees for the School of Law by more than 15 percent, beginning with the fall...
View ArticleTexas A&M University Lowers and Locks Tuition for Law School New Figures Take...
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas A&M University has announced it will lower its full-time resident tuition and fees for the School of Law by more than 15 percent, beginning...
View ArticleOpen-Source Alternatives May Disrupt Billion-Dollar Textbook Industry...
(Source: Show-Me Institute) Affton School District in St. Louis will take part in the U.S. Department of Education's #GoOpen campaign, a new federal effort that aims to disrupt the $14 billion dollar...
View ArticleTexas Tech University System Pursuing Veterinary Medicine School (Texas Tech...
(Source: Texas Tech Alumni Association) Robert Duncan Texas Tech University System (TTUS) officials announced today (Dec. 4) plans to develop a veterinary school and veterinary medicine doctoral...
View Article>Texas board approves textbook review rule changes
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Education approved tighter rules on Friday dictating who can serve on volunteer panels that scrutinize textbooks, a move that could soften longstanding and often...
View ArticleTexas Board of Ed sees its textbook influence wane
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas public schools had little say in 1995 when the state demanded that publishers make sweeping changes to health textbooks to de-emphasize contraception, or six years later when it...
View ArticleClimate change science provokes textbook battle in Texas
Climate fight taken to Texan classrooms Photo: NASA Several textbook publishers have withdrawn passages from social studies textbooks that could have led middle school students to think that climate...
View ArticleClimate science provokes textbook battle in Texas
WASHINGTON Several textbook publishers have withdrawn passages from social studies textbooks that could have lead middle school students to think that climate change is not caused by human activity, an...
View Article>News Guide: Texas' latest history textbook tussle
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Education is poised to vote Tuesday on more than 100 proposed social studies, history, geography and government textbooks that publishers have submitted for...
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