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The Houston Independent School District employees arrested were Vincent Grayson, a longtime teacher and head basketball coach at Booker T. Washington High School, described by prosecutors as the ...
Five people who are or have been employed with the Houston Independent School District allegedly orchestrated a $1 million teacher certification scheme.
A core aspect of the New Education System is what Miles describes as the "hospital model." Under this model, teachers are paid $85,000 on average alongside a $10,000 stipend, and they receive the support of apprentices and learning coaches. Both teacher and principal evaluations will be heavily weighted by standardized test scores.
About 60 teachers, parents and residents from Houston gave passionate, tearful speeches to the State Board of Education on Wednesday, expressing their concerns with the Texas Education Agency’s ...
The scandal thrust the debate over using high-stakes testing to hold educators accountable, mandated by the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, into the national spotlight. [7] Teachers who confessed to cheating blamed "inordinate pressure" to meet targets set by the district and said they faced severe consequences such as a negative evaluation or ...
HISD board members wanted to improve the district's perceived standing - among the best of urban districts but still below average overall - without installing too much radical change, and they felt that a stronger personality was needed to check Gayle Fallon, the head of the Houston Federation of Teachers.
An NYC principal and his wife, accused masterminds behind a bilingual teacher scandal exposed by The Post, have raked in more than $500,000 in salary for the past two years — while the foreign ...
The TAAS, or Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, was the third standardized test used in Texas between 1991 and 2002, when it was replaced by the TAKS test from 2003 to 2013. [1] It was used from grades 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11. Passing the Grade 11 level was required for graduation, but many opportunities for retesting were available.