EDU Newsletter

The State Board of Education Social Studies TEKS review process has continued throughout the summer, with the SBOE hearing public testimony on the new proposed frameworks at their June meeting. [...]

After the tragedy in Uvalde, new attention has been focused on student mental health. However, according to a Columbia University study of mass killers, only 22% showed signs of being [...]

House Public Education - 7/26/22 at 10:00 AM The committee will meet to hear invited and public testimony on the following interim charges: Identify and examine efforts to ensure that [...]

Students and teachers are held accountable for academic growth, so why not also hold vendors accountable? This was the guiding principle behind Ector County ISD Superintendent Dr. Scott Muri’s decision [...]

Funding for school districts is at a historically high level due to ESSER dollars, but the needs competing for those funds are proportionally higher as well. How do districts prioritize [...]

Commissioner Mike Morath presented data to the May 24 meeting of the House Public Education Committee showing the breakdown of ESSER funds spent by Texas districts. The combined costs of [...]

May is Mental Health Awareness month, and concerns about students’ mental and emotional wellbeing are well documented. However, social-emotional learning or SEL has become a code word that some parents [...]

Over the past two years, students have experienced anxiety, separation, and in some cases mobility, grief, and trauma. For students from military families and their teachers, these concerns have been [...]

The State Board of Education held a special meeting on May 16 to hear public and invited testimony on the proposed revision to the social studies TEKS framework. Speakers testified [...]

The long-term impact of interrupted learning during the past two years is becoming more evident, as a report released last month by Renaissance Learning provided new insights into students’ academic [...]