Keller ISD Ready To Park Buses & Cut Teachers
Keller ISD board president Kevin Stevenson said Monday that major cuts will now be implemented after voters turned down a tax increase.
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Keller ISD board president Kevin Stevenson said Monday that major cuts will now be implemented after voters turned down a tax increase.
As state lawmakers remain deadlocked on education funding, school districts are making spending decisions, chopping things like bus service.
School districts will be able to pay public school teachers less and furlough them without pay beginning in 2012 under a bill passed by the House on Thursday.
Many Texas teachers are getting behind a legislative bill that could spare cuts in education funding.
A tax battle is brewing in the Keller ISD, pitting education supporters against residents who feel they have no tax dollars left to give.
Just 13 percent of high school seniors who took the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, called the Nation's Report Card, showed a solid grasp of American history, the report card says.
According to poll results released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Texas Lyceum group. more than one-fifth of Texans say education is the most important issue facing the state.
Some North Texas kids are going to summer school -- beause they're getting paid to.
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.
The Texas House approved slashing $4 billion from public schools and establishing a new formula that will change how funds are distributed.
New U.S. Department of Labor statistics show the unemployment rate for people ages 16-19 is rising for the first month of the summer. That's why hundreds of high school students and recent graduates lined up at the Will Rogers Center in the early afternoon heat. They've learned jobs are hard to come by.
The Texas House is debating legislation that will cut $4 billion from Texas public schools to deal with a multibillion dollar revenue shortfall.
The educational future of nearly 80-thousand Fort Worth students is temporarily in the hands of someone new.
The district says the poor performance is due to changes in the way the state grades the TAKS test.
The chief financial officer for Dallas schools has been named interim superintendent.