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e. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States. [1] The agency is headquartered in the William B. Travis State Office Building in downtown Austin. [1][2] Mike Morath, formerly a member of the Dallas Independent School District 's board of trustees, was ...
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) is an agency of the U.S. state of Texas's government that oversees all public post-secondary education in the state. It is headquartered at 1801 North Congress Avenue in Austin. [1] THECB determines which Texas public four-year universities are permitted to start or continue degree programs.
Children. Two sons. John Donald "Don" McLeroy (born June 3, 1946) is a dentist in Bryan, Texas, and a Republican former member of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). The SBOE establishes policy for the state public school system. McLeroy, who represented SBOE District 9 (Bryan and College Station), served on the board from 1998 until ...
The TEA-developed resources are just one piece of House Bill 1605 — a bill the Texas Legislature passed last year that puts more power over classroom materials in the state education board’s ...
Any major changes in the makeup of the state board would probably have an effect on its curriculum decisions for all Texas students, said Jacob Kirksey, a Texas Tech University education professor ...
Education in Texas. Texas has over 1,000 public school districts—all but one of the school districts in Texas are independent, separate from any form of municipal or county government. School districts may (and often do) cross city and county boundaries. Independent school districts have the power to tax their residents and to assert eminent ...
v. t. e. San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1973), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that San Antonio Independent School District 's financing system, which was based on local property taxes, was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment 's equal protection clause.
Website. tea.texas.gov. Mike Morath (born 1977) is an American software developer and investor. He is the commissioner of the Texas Education Agency. Prior to joining the agency, he served as a trustee for the Dallas Independent School District, where he advocated for school reform and home-rule. Morath began his career in the technology sector.