by Andrea Payne | May 26, 2023 | Education News
A new law now enables districts to opt in to hiring chaplains to work with or in lieu of school counselors starting next school year. Texas chaplains will soon be counseling students in public schools across the state. Like any employee, each chaplain must pass a...
by Andrea Payne | Apr 24, 2023 | Education News, Religion
Recent data analysis confirms that math and reading proficiency measures have fallen since 2019. Any classroom teacher can attest to that, but the National Assessment of Educational Progress has analyzed data from the DOE’s National Center for Education Statistics to...
by Andrea Payne | Dec 19, 2022 | Education News
At a time when schools everywhere are already struggling to staff campuses with teachers—any teachers, much less qualified, effective teachers—the revocation of the accreditation of Texas’ largest alternative teacher certification program could send quite the...
by Andrea Payne | Dec 2, 2022 | Legal Developments
New bills from Texas legislators could bring big changes to Texas’ school funding system. Districts are facing enormous challenges with teacher retention and operating expenses, and some districts are also losing students to private schools and charters, exacerbating...
by Andrea Payne | Nov 8, 2022 | Education News, Fresh Ideas
Universal screening data, PLC data, formative data, summative data, benchmark data, diagnostic data, CBM data. Schools have become very proficient in gathering as much data as possible. This is a good thing. But does everyone always know what to do with all of...
