Texas Schools

Outrage Over Teachers Locking Young Children In 'Monster Closet'

Posted 05.26.2012

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A Houston, Texas teacher and teacher's aide have been removed from their classroom for allegedly disciplining their pre-K students by placing them in ...

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Middle Schooler Faces Suspension For Crazy Haircut

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.18.2012

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Patrick Gonzalez, a student at Woodlake Hills Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, was given in-school suspensionfor coming to class with the likeness...

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School Spells Own Name Wrong For 9 Years

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.10.2012

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Sunrise-McMillan Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas, has made an embarrassing correction after nine years: the spelling of its name, NBC Dallas-Fo...

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Police Shoots Teen In Classroom Break-In Investigation

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

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PASADENA, Texas — A police officer told investigators Tuesday that he shot a 14-year-old boy suspected in the overnight break-in of a Houston-ar...

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Teachers Shoot Rap Video To Get Teens Pumped For Standardized Tests

Posted 04.19.2012

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Standardized tests are getting tougher, and it's getting increasingly harder to motivate students to put forth the time and effort needed to prepare f...

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Could You Pass The 8th Grade By Today's Testing Standards?

Posted 03.30.2012

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As Texas students started taking a new state-mandated test this week, districts across the state have gradually signed on to a resolution that says hi...

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School Bans Girl With Cerebral Palsy From Using Walker

Posted 05.26.2012

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A Texas mother is planning to file a lawsuit against New Caney Independent School District after her daughter's special education director said the 5-...

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Schools Nationwide Flagged For Possible Cheating, Some Question Analysis

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.25.2012

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ATLANTA — Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigat...

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12-Year-Old Boy In Custody For Brandishing Loaded Gun

AP | Posted 02.28.2012

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WARREN, Texas -- Sheriff's deputies have taken a 12-year-old boy into custody after witnesses reported he pointed a loaded gun at a classmate standing...

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Texas District Embarks On Widespread iPad Program To Close Digital Divide

AP | By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 02.27.2012

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McALLEN, Texas -- A Texas school district is trying to close its digital divide by distributing thousands of Apple tablet computers in a move that cou...

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Students Speak Up: How Budget Cuts Are Hurting Them

Posted 02.14.2012

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As school districts are facing massive budget cuts across the country, school programs, teachers and students are taking the hit. Across the countr...

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Report Gives New Detail On Middle School Student Shot By Police

AP | By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 02.14.2012

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McALLEN, Texas -- A police sergeant gave the order to "take him out" and an armed teen was fatally shot after he turned toward another student in the ...

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Judge Slams Critics Of Ban Against Prayer At Texas High School Graduation

AP | By PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 02.10.2012

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SAN ANTONIO -- A federal judge who was vilified by Republican presidential hopefuls for banning prayer at a Texas high school graduation delivered a s...

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Ex-Teacher Faces Felony For Giving Student Emergency Contraceptive

Posted 04.10.2012

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A former Texas High School teacher faces felony charges for delivery of a dangerous drug after admitting to police that she gave a student an emergenc...

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Superintendent Bans School Sports To Save District

Posted 03.24.2012

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In a desperate effort to boost student performance and save a school system from closure, one Texas school district has made the mid-year decision to ...

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Teen Who Shot And Injured Peer Says He Was Bullied

AP | Posted 01.11.2012

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HOUSTON -- A Houston teenager accused of shooting a classmate in the leg at school says he was defending himself from a group of boys who have been bu...

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10-Year-Old Boys Charged With Sexual Assault On School Bus, Could Get 40 Years

AP | By JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 01.10.2012

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HOUSTON -- Houston police say two 10-year-old boys have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy on a school bus. The boys were arrest...

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Wake For Texas Middle Schooler Killed By Cops Draws Hundreds

AP | By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 01.06.2012

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Hundreds of people have attended a wake for a Texas eighth-grader who was fatally shot by police who thought the boy was brandis...

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Hundreds Of Students Caught Cheating At 'Exemplary' School

Posted 03.06.2012

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Hundreds of high school seniors in Texas were caught cheating on their final exams last month. Now, officials at the southeast Houston Clear Creek Ind...

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Police: Officers Acted Correctly In Shooting, Killing Middle School Student

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and DANNY ROBBINS | Posted 03.06.2012

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas — On a doorstep outside a family home, a father wondered why police had to shoot his son in the hall of the boy's middle scho...

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BREAKING: Texas Police Kill Armed Middle School Student

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 03.05.2012

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Police shot and killed an eighth-grader in the hallway of his middle school Wednesday after the boy brandished what looked ...

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Districts File Third Suit Against State Over School Funding

Posted 12.14.2011

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A third group of Texas schools filed suit against the state Tuesday over education funding, alleging that the system of financing public education is ...

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For-Profit Teacher Certification Booming

| Nick Pandolfo and Morgan Smith | Posted 01.29.2012

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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. DENTON, Texas — One afternoon in mid-November, Jeff Arrington scattered 80 paper gingerb...

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'Exemplary' School Only Taught 2 Subjects, Faked Other Grades

Posted 01.22.2012

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A Dallas elementary school that was given "exemplary" status for academic achievement only taught its third graders reading and math last year, and fa...

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Texas History Education Standards Slammed In New Report

Posted 01.11.2012

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A recent report says Texas K-12 standards in history are inadequate, ineffective and "fail to meet the state's college readiness standards," and the r...

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