Aliyya Swaby, Texa
Aliyya Swaby started as the public education reporter in October 2016. She came to the Tribune from the hyperlocal nonprofit New Haven Independent, where she covered education, zoning and transit for two years. After graduating from Yale University in 2013, she spent a year freelance reporting in Panama on social issues affecting black Panamanian communities. A native New Yorker, Aliyya misses public transportation but is thrilled by the lack of snow.
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Were the reading and writing passages on standardized tests that Texas elementary and middle school students took this spring too challenging for their…
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When state lawmakers passed their landmark $11.6 billion school finance law in late May, school employees were eager to see how mandatory raises would…
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Texas’ top three political leaders declared Thursday that the Legislature had reached agreements on its three main 2019 priorities: A two-year state…
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Texas' top three political leaders — Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen — threw their support Wednesday behind a…
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When third-grade reading teacher Natasha Boone told her peers she was considering a job at Titche Elementary School, a chronically low-performing school…
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For some in the debate over how to fund Texas' schools, "Robin Hood" is decidedly a villain.The program, baked into state education law since 1993,…
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Top Texas lawmakers this year are proposing allocating billions of more dollars for public schools, but a portion of those dollars will likely have…
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In Karen Hill’s eyes, not much has changed since her father’s unsuccessful bid for Richardson Independent School District's board in 1963.A. Maceo…
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For years, school finance reform has been a messy political challenge that Gov. Greg Abbott has been reluctant to wade into.But an 86-page slide show…
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Two teacher associations sued Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath and the Texas Education Agency on Wednesday, arguing they rolled out a law…
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Federal education officials are considering letting school districts use federal money to buy guns for educators — and the idea may have come from Texas,…
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is urging the Teacher Retirement System not to raise health care premiums for retired teachers, arguing that state lawmakers should…