Corpus Christi’s Flour Bluff ISD has blocked extracurricular clubs from meeting on campus to make sure it’s complying with federal law after denying approval of a gay-straight alliance.
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TribLive: Carter, Burkett and Anderson
Last Wednesday, I sat down with three first-term members of the Texas House — Stefani Carter, R-Dallas; Cindy Burkett, R-Mesquite; and Rodney Anderson, R-Grand Prairie — to talk about their first weeks in office.
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Carter, Burkett and Anderson on Public Ed Cuts
At last Wednesday’s TribLive conversation, first-term House members Stefani Carter, R-Dallas, Cindy Burkett, R-Mesquite, and Rodney Anderson, R-Grand Prairie, explained why they think deep cuts to public education are possible.
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Economy
“Rube Goldberg” School Finance System Faces New Test
Cutting $10 billion public education funding could push more than two-dozen school districts from the group that receives state financing into the group that writes checks to the state to even things out between richer and poorer districts.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
The best of our best content from Feb. 14 to 18, 2011.
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Public Education
Sara Hickman: The TT Interview
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Battle Over Rainy Day Fund Heating Up
Texas, like many other states, is proposing billions of dollars in cuts to help close a budget gap. But as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, one thing Texas has that nobody else does is $9 billion in a piggy bank called the Rainy Day Fund — and lawmakers are divided over whether to crack it open.
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Texas Social Studies Standards Receive Failing Grade
A report from a conservative education think tank says social studies standards in Texas give students a distorted and politicized view of history that, in one case, resembles “Soviet schools harping on the glories of state socialism.”
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Public Education
Cy-Fair Superintendent on Education Cuts
In an interview with KRLD’s Scott Braddock in Dallas, David Anthony, the departing superintendent of the state’s third-largest school district, said districts are in a “difficult situation” as they try to meet new student achievement measures while coping with cuts.
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David Dunn: The TT Interview
The executive director of the Texas Charter Schools Association talks with The Texas Tribune about how cuts in education funding will hit charter schools hardest, and how they can partner with traditional public school districts in “win-win”arrangements — like sharing facilities.