by Andrea Payne | Mar 24, 2021 | Education News
Parents, extended school year, and legal knowledge are key From our partner organization PresenceLearning The impact of school closures upon students may well be an issue for years to come. The Biden administration has approved a new round of support in the American...
by Jennifer Childress | Mar 10, 2021 | Education News
From the Office of the Texas Governor website…. March 4, 2021 | Austin, Texas | Press Release Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced today that the State of Texas will provide a “hold harmless” to Texas school systems for...
by Andrea Payne | Feb 12, 2021 | Education News
Mike Morath announced that students learning remotely will not have to take the STAAR this school year. This is to accommodate families who are concerned by the health implications of sending their children to campus to participate in the test. Because the STAAR...
by Jennifer Childress | Nov 19, 2020 | Education News
The Texas Education Agency today announced the next set of instructional materials – a full suite of resources and tools for prekindergarten – that will be made available to school systems through the Texas Home Learning 3.0 (THL 3.0) initiative. Like other THL 3.0...
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...
