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The Texas Education Agency (TEA) established the Office of Gifted and Talented Education in 1976 and developed the first state plan for Gifted Education in 1981 and funded the Texas Governor's Honors Program. From 1986 until 1988, the program was held at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1989, the program was not held. The Texas ...
The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
Gifted education (also known as gifted and talented education (GATE), talented and gifted programs (TAG), or G&T education) is a sort of education used for children who have been identified as gifted or talented. The main approaches to gifted education are enrichment and acceleration. An enrichment program teaches additional, deeper material ...
DISD superintendent Linus Wright first proposed creating Townview in 1978 as a way to save costs; having a centrally located magnet center would reduce transportation costs. U.S. federal judge Barefoot Sanders, involved in desegregating DISD, supported the plan. Yvonne Ewell and one other DISD administrator were tasked with developing the ...
The Montessori school—dubbed “Ad Astra” (Latin for “to the stars”) in a nod to Musk’s plans for interplanetary travel—is located about 40 minutes from Austin, in Bastrop county ...
Texas Monthly ranks TAG as one of the top 25 schools in Texas. [24] TAG is a NCLB Blue Ribbon School. [25] Rated "Exemplary" by the Texas Education Agency every year since the inception of the program. [1] Texas Business & Education Coalition Honor Roll Award in 2004, 2006, and 2007. [1] [26] [27]
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TAMS was established on June 23, 1987 by the 70th Texas Legislature, in order to provide high school students an opportunity to take advanced coursework in math, science, and engineering. [3] [4] It was designed as a residential program at the University of North Texas for high school-aged students gifted in mathematics and science.