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The Mansfield school desegregation incident is a 1956 event in the Civil Rights Movement in Mansfield, Texas, a suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. In 1955, the Mansfield Independent School District was segregated and still sent its Black children to separate, run down facilities, despite the Brown v. Board of Education court decision ...
The plan is based on 60% of a district's local funding capacity on property values and 40% on resident income. That budget also increased funding for school choice, which now stands at nearly $1 ...
Furthermore, he ordered the board of education to devise a means for the General Assembly to eliminate wealth-based disparities in education. [ 10 ] Although the board voted not to appeal, the attorney general’s office , which represents the state, filed a notice of appeal to the Fifth District Court of Appeals , based in Canton . [ 10 ]
The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) are a series of standardized tests used in Texas primary and secondary schools to assess students' attainment of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills required under Texas education standards. It is developed and scored by Pearson Educational Measurement with ...
A Texas lawmaker's recent call to dismantle the Texas Education Agency could reflect a growing discontent with the state office in charge of overseeing primary and secondary public schooling.
HB 1, the state budget, includes a requirement that the Texas Education Agency study post-secondary outcomes of students and how they correlate to student programming in high school, allowing the ...
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down both a state statute denying funding for education of undocumented immigrant children in the United States and an independent school district's attempt to charge an annual $1,000 tuition fee for each student to compensate for lost state funding. [1]
Three Republican incumbents on Texas' State Board of Education are being challenged by candidates who are more focused on conservative ideologies.