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Texas requires schools to have emergency plans and conduct safety drills. But a lot of decisions about safety are left to school districts and charter schools.
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The Texas Education Agency developed new school library standards that give parents more of a role in which books their children can read, gives school boards final say over all new books and establishes a book review committee if a parent files a complaint.
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The state allows a portion of fines to be directed to projects that remediate environmental harm. Some of those projects benefit the companies that are being penalized.
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School districts are not required to adopt the agency’s recommendations but can use them as guidance as they develop new procedures or alter their policies for selecting or removing library books.
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K-3 teachers in Texas have until 2023 to complete a 60-hour Reading Academies course to keep the job. It’s taking some 120 hours on their own time to finish.
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Initially, the Texas Education Agency’s Teacher Vacancy Task Force only included two teachers. Now the agency is adding another 24 public school teachers.
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The district appears to be the first one to be investigated since Republicans started raising questions in October about content in public school libraries.
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The new guidance will allow for remote learning for up to 20 days for students that are sick with COVID-19 or have been exposed to it.
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The report comes on the heels of Texas signing two, four-year contracts totaling $388 million with companies to develop and administer the standardized tests.
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The appeals court upheld a temporary injunction that stops Texas from ousting Houston ISD's school board. But the legal battle is not over.
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A summer of delay and inconsistency from state political and education leaders left Texas schools little time to prepare for an academic year with millions of students learning from home. Now many of those kids are failing through no fault of their own.