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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In exactly a week, Texas will give its school districts official grades for the first time, rating them on a scale from A through F, with state officials…
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The Texas Education Agency is starting the search for organizations to help school districts overhaul special education following a federal finding that…
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Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner on Thursday evening demanding he hand over a copy of the…
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Two days after Gov. Greg Abbott released a 40-page school safety plan, Texas House and Senate leaders ordered their committees to study ways to limit…
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For school districts with chronically failing campuses, a recently passed law that allows them a reprieve from state sanctions was supposed to be a…
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The Texas Education Agency will levy a $100,000 financial penalty against the New Jersey-based company that develops and administers standardized tests,…
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RICHARDSON — Jaculyn Zigtema, a special education director in Whitehouse ISD in East Texas, told state education officials Monday that she planned to hire…
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* Update, April 13: On Friday, the State Board of Education gave its final approval to development of the Ethnic Studies: An Overview of Americans of…
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Texas got final approval Monday from the U.S. Department of Education for its school improvement and accountability plan, including a portion of its new…
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After gathering thousands of responses from parents and advocates, the Texas Education Agency has sketched a new plan for educating kids with disabilities…
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Over her 16 years on the State Board of Education, Pat Hardy has rallied for her share of socially conservative measures. She's endorsed keeping…
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The State Board of Education is considering creating standards for an official Mexican-American studies high school course, after two failed attempts to…