by Andrea Payne | Jan 15, 2021 | Breaking News
TASB Special Education Solutions was notified that there are pending changes to the Texas Medicaid Provider Procedures Manual (TMPPM) as it relates to your School Health and Related Services (SHARS) program. This will impact all SHARS programs across our...
by Andrea Payne | Jan 15, 2021 | Events
We thought we’d be back from an extended spring break in late March or early April. Then spring break seemed to go on indefinitely as schools scrambled through May. We thought most kids would be in classrooms by August, maybe September or October. January for...
by Andrea Payne | Dec 3, 2020 | Fresh Ideas
Linda Tutt High School in Sanger, Texas, has opened a grocery store. This in itself is laudable for providing a needed resource for food insecure families, but it also remarkable for empowering students with the ability to help with their families’ basic needs. But...
by Andrea Payne | Nov 19, 2020 | Education News
Virtual learning is rough, but some help is on the way from federal dollars through the CARES Act and Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites. Granted, the CARES Act funds will help all 1200 plus Texas school districts by reimbursing money already spent on laptops, tablets,...
by Andrea Payne | Oct 22, 2020 | Education News, Federal Guidance
There are 1,247 school districts in Texas. A handful of these—Livingston, Blanco, Roosevelt, Moody, and Lubbock-Cooper ISD, for example—have eliminated virtual learning entirely at this point. But most Texas schools are offering hybrid learning at this current stage...