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Robin Hood plan. The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the ...
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 ...
March 25, 2024 at 10:42 AM. When Texas lawmakers reconvene at the Capitol on Jan. 14, they will focus on higher education issues ranging from diversity, equity and inclusion to affordability and ...
HB 1, the state budget, includes a requirement that the Texas Education Agency study post-secondary outcomes of students and how they correlate to student programming in high school, allowing the ...
No Pass No Play is a Texas public education policy that came about as a result of the passage of House Bill 72 by the Texas Legislature in 1984, and became effective in 1985. [1] Under No Pass No Play, students must pass all their school courses to be allowed to participate in extracurricular activities such as athletics or fine arts (choir ...
A Texas lawmaker's recent call to dismantle the Texas Education Agency could reflect a growing discontent with the state office in charge of overseeing primary and secondary public schooling ...
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 ...
Passage of Senate Bill 15 two years ago meant Texas schools could offer a hybrid model that allowed schools to provide a combination of virtual and in-person instruction.