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State Comptroller Releases Education Report
RICHARDSON (AP) – A Texas education report released Wednesday that rates school districts by looking at student progress and district spending gives only about 4 percent of schools the top designation....
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Massive Cuts Proposed For State Public Education
AUSTIN (AP) – Public education in Texas is facing billions in proposed budget cuts that would include slashing arts education, pre-kindergarten programs and teacher incentive pay as lawmakers take on a...
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Crisis In The Classroom: ‘Worst Case Scenario’ Sends Districts Scrambling
We created this interactive map to accompany our online and on-screen coverage of the budget shortfall’s impact on area school districts. It allows you to track how much less each school district would...
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Review Says Fired FWISD Asst. Principal Wasn’t A Whistleblower
FORT WORTH (KRLD) - A Fort Worth assistant principal says he was fired out of retaliation, but that’s not what the state is saying. An examiner with the Texas Education Agency upheld the Fort Worth...
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TEA Says Fort Worth School Owes State $18,000
FORT WORTH (KRLD) – The Texas Education Agency has been investigating Arlington Heights High School for about a year. Now there are reports the Fort Worth ISD school over-reported attendance numbers....
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22 Fort Worth Schools Rated “Unacceptable” By State
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) - Fort Worth’s school district just received an unpleasant report card. After state-mandated TAKS tests, the district saw the number of schools deemed to be unacceptable...
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Educators Worry Schools Won’t Recover From Cuts
AUSTIN (AP) – Educators fear a new measure that will slash $4 billion in funding to Texas public schools over the next two years will permanently handicap them because it removes any long-term...
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Texas Education Agency To Lay Off 178 Employees
AUSTIN (AP) – The Texas Education Agency is laying off 178 employees this week as part of budget cuts ordered by the state Legislature. TEA spokeswoman Debbie Ratcliffe said the agency is reducing its...
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Ratings Expected To Have Longer List Of ‘Poorly Performing Schools’
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – School districts in North Texas and across the state are bracing for an unusually long list of poorly performing schools, when the district accountability ratings come out in...
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Grand Prairie Teacher Opens Investigation Into Own District’s Hiring
GRAND PRAIRIE (CBSDFW.COM) – Many North Texas school districts are starting their school years having made budget cuts. In Grand Prairie, the district even encouraged people to retire early. Yet the...
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State School Districts Sue Texas, Saying Funding Is Unfair
AUSTIN (AP) – A coalition of more than 150 Texas school districts said Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit against the state over a school funding system it says is unfair, inefficient and unconstitutional....
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McKinney Teacher Named TEA Teacher Of The Year
McKINNEY (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas educator has been tabbed as the state’s best teacher. Reading specialist Karen Morman of Webb Elementary in McKinney has been named Texas’s 2012 Teacher of the...
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43 Dallas ISD Schools Make PEG List, 29 In Fort Worth ISD
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Forty-three Dallas ISD and 29 Fort Worth ISD schools rank among the state’s worst performing, according to a list issued Monday by the Texas Education Agency. Districts with...
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Texas School Cancels Sports To Focus On Academics
PREMONT (AP) – An academically struggling South Texas school district has decided to cancel student sports and use the money for improving education. Trustees of the Premont Independent School...
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Education Officials Decry ‘Over-Testing’ In Texas
AUSTIN (AP) - State Board of Education members have pressed the Texas education commissioner about whether high-stakes standardized testing is warping classroom teaching to ensure students spend more...
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State, Federal Agencies Investigating DISD For Discrimination
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Federal and state agencies are investigating the Dallas Independent School District’s decision to use Title 1 funds to send 5,000 boys to see the film Red Tails in February. The...
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No State Investigation Of Dallas Test Scores After Atlanta Analysis
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – The Texas Education Agency has no plans to investigate suspicious test scores in Houston, Dallas and other state school districts that point to the possibility of cheating. And...
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Duncanville ISD Questions Newspaper Analysis, Defends Its Testing
DUNCANVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) – Duncanville school officials are standing by the integrity of their standardized test scores in spite of being criticized in an Atlanta newspaper for results that appear...
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Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott Stepping Down
Robert Scott. (Photo credit Texas Education Agency) AUSTIN (THE TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Texas Education Agency Commissioner Robert Scott is leaving the post Gov. Rick Perry appointed him to in 2007. When...
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All But 42 School Districts Delay STAAR Grade Rule
AUSTIN (AP) - Some 1,119 school districts across Texas will delay for a year a requirement that the results of the STAAR test count toward ninth graders’ final grades. Six districts say they will...
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