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The board devises policies and sets academic standards for Texas public schools, and oversees the state Permanent School Fund and selects textbooks to be used in Texas schools. Since 2011, the board can still recommend textbooks, but public school districts can order their own books and materials even if their selections are not on the state ...
e. Segregation academies are private schools in the Southern United States that were founded in the mid-20th century by white parents to avoid having their children attend desegregated public schools. They were founded between 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, [2] [3] and 1976, when ...
Academic achievement. In 2018-19, the school district was rated a B by the Texas Education Agency (TEA.) No state accountability ratings were given to districts for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. Prior to the 2011-12 school year, school districts in Texas could receive one of four possible rankings from the Texas Education Agency: Exemplary (the highest possible ranking), Recognized ...
The Texas State Board of Education has set new book standards that school districts must follow, banning sexually explicit content and limiting sexually relevant materials in school libraries, as ...
Jan. 29—AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on Dec. 18, 2023, appointed Aaron Kinsey as Chair of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) for a term set to expire on Dec. 17, 2025. Although the board ...
Here are 3 races to watch. Gannett. Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman. February 25, 2024 at 7:02 AM. Three Republican members of the State Board of Education are facing well-funded primary ...
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 ...
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 ...